Fab Academy 2011 > Week 1 > Introducing the new class

Professor Neil Gershenfeld (Director of CBA at MIT), leads the second year of the Fab Academy.

50 Participants from 14 different sites. The Fab Academy 2011 has started on January 19th, 3pm Barcelona, 9am Boston, 6am California, 11pm Japan. Students from countries such as South Africa, United States, Iceland, Netherlands, Peru and Spain are participating in the Diploma Program offered by the worldwide network of Fab Labs.

The Fab Academy is a distributed education program, the campus is the planet, and classrooms are in the Fab Labs, where also lies the subject content of digital manufacturing, its implications and applications.

Students will be encouraged to follow a 6 month intensive program on all digital fabrication techniques and tools, which will be embeded in final projects to be presented on June 2011.