Hi there!
I´m a Social Anthropologist doing my Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK. I explore practices of innovation & ethics at the intersection of art, science and technology and how they link to our shifting political economy. I collaborate with artists such as the international research collective BeAnotherLab and “Makers” based in, around, and close by the Fab Lab BCN. I am especially interested in people´s visions of the future, human-machine interaction and forms of knowledge creation through globalised and interdisciplinary work/life experiences.
What is Fab Academy?
Fab Academy is a 5 months Digital Fabrication program directed by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course, MAS 863: How to Make (Almost) Anything.
Aims for FabAcademy 2016
Doing the Fab Academy 2016 in Barcelona is part of my Ph.D. field research. I don´t have any prior education in digital fabrication nor any technological knowledge worth mentioning. My aim for the FabAcademy is to develop a basic understanding of tools and techniques that characterise digital fabrication as well as gathering the skills to actually engage in makers´ embodied practices myself. Following the anthropological key method of participant observation, I contextualise the body of knowledge associated with FabLab makers & other polymaths wildering the techno-frontier of the global knowledge economy.