The Fab Academy
My 2017 Fabacademy Class

About myself

My name is Médéric and I am based in Switzerland. I work as a video technician in an International Organization, dealing with the technical aspect of the studio (equipment, cameras, databases). On the side, I was also involved in 3-year long theater project. Along with three others professional actor, we created a theater series: every two weeks, an episode was played (only once) and then we had another two weeks to re-write, direct and put together the next show. We did 25 episodes in total and during the course of this project I learned a lot about project management, creative processes, etc.

I learned about Fablabs while watching Neil Gershenfeld’s first TED Talk on Youtube. Since then, I have been following the Fablab movement with an immense interest. The work done at the CBA at MIT, especially “turning data into things and things into data” resonates with me very strongly. My impression is that we are at a crossroad right now (climate change, our mode of production and consumption, our institutions, etc.) and thinking about the way we produce things and how we deal with those with after they proved themselves useful seems to me very important. The Fablab movement answers these questions very pertinently.

I am looking forward to developing the power to create new things, thus bridging imagination and reality. And since there are many things I’d like to see built which – as far as I know – are not being built, I think the best way to remediate to this is to build them myself. The Fabacademy is the “perfect storm” of ideas, skill learning and network building and I am delighted to be swept away in that manner.