At Fab Academy, learners come together in local workgroups with peers, mentors, and machines. Everyone is then connected globally in an online campus with content sharing and interactive video classes. The individual labs become local hubs fo local participants, which are also supported and supervised regionally by mentors. Knowledge in this course does not run linear, it is the result of multiple global and local interactions.
Fabricademy: Textile & Technology Academy is a transdisciplinary course that focuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry
Globally connected, local changemakers. PRESENTATION The Master in Design for Distributed Innovation (MDDI) is a distributed learning program focused on the intersection of design, technology, ecosystems and communities to improve interspecies wellbeing. MDDI is a research and innovation ecosystem for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers and agents of change who want to realize real-world [...]
How is Montréal positioned at the heart of the revolution in the textile and fashion industry? Communautique, SDC District Central and their partners Concertation Montréal and mmode, the Metropolitan Fashion Cluster, invite you to a day of codesign to imagine together the future of the textile and fashion industry in Montreal. A collaborative day to [...]
As part of their science and technology course, Secondary III students at école secondaire Calixa-Lavallée learn about the human joints and the different movements they can do. In order to integrate these learnings, a project to build a puppet started in the classroom continued during a day at échoFab to create an articulation and [...]
The échoFab Sustainable Dronautique offers training in ecodesign, programming, assembly and drone piloting. During the winter-spring of 2018, in collaboration with École d’éducation internationale de Laval and Collège Beaubois, the initiative allowed 20 young people from secondary IV and V to benefit from the training, within the framework of a first pilot supported financially [...]
Fab Academy is a 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. The Fab Academy offers a 6 month program on digital fabrication. The Fab Academy offers Certificates on relevant technical topics, and a Diploma aimed at vocational and technical training. Fab Academy Certificates provide familiarity with technical options and capabilities, hands-on experience, and [...]
En fin de semaine dernière, Communautique et Procédurable ont participé au Village Communautaire de Wikimania 2017 se déroulant du 11 au 13 août 2017, au Centre Sheraton Montreal. Ce fut l'occasion pour les deux organismes de présenter le travail réalisé sur différents wikis (Fab Labs Québec, Fab Labs Nation, Le violon de Jos) en plus d'échanger avec [...]
Voulez-vous teindre du textile avec des bactéries vivantes, imprimer de nouveaux matériaux 3D, investiguer la façon de numériser des motifs et réfléchir aux nouveaux processus de production dans l'industrie du textile et de la mode? Voulez-vous faire partie de l'avenir de l'industrie du vêtement et d'un réseau mondial de pionniers dans le monde entier? [...]
Émancipation, épanouissement et engagement. Les trois actions qui représentent les principales valeurs de Communautique[1] se sont bien faites sentir durant les premières semaines de l'échoFab Durable, le Fab Lab nouvellement installé à Rivière-des-Prairies. Le premier défi était inévitable. transformer un bâtiment inutilisé depuis plusieurs mois (sinon années) en laboratoire de fabrication numérique. Après quelques [...]
