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Fabricademy is a distributed program at the intersection of Textiles, Digital Fabrication & Biology.

28/08/2026

Co-design the future of with Nature. 🌿👘
At Fabricademy, materials are more than what we make with - participants learn to explore, research and experiment with , designed with nature’s principles in mind.

From heritage techniques to over abundant bio-based polymers, participants develop garments and materials that rethink how fashion can be made, used and returned to the planet.

Through Fabricademy, your focus will shift from extraction to regeneration: balancing human impact on nature while exploring new possibilities for a more regenerative future.

📌 Join us to pioneer the future of biomaterials - for textiles, fashion, electronics and beyond!
Applications are still open to study with us this September. Apply today at a lab close to you: textile-academy.org/apply

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Interview with Cecilia Raspanti, Fabricademy and at Co-founder.

Video Credits: Ma**ca De Michele
with shots from Green Fabric bxl, Fabricamp 2021 Iceland, Geneva 2022, Petra Garajova, Janvi Gohel.
Music: Id Bitte by Kettel

25/08/2026

Final Projects 2025-26 Showcase
A Life That Follows 🐟 as material for fashion and interiors, honoring the Indigenous practices it comes from.

The project transforms discarded fish skin, gathered weekly from a local fishmonger, into durable, biodegradable material through natural tanning.
Rooted in Indigenous zero-waste philosophy, where animals are partners, not resources, the collection features a cod crossbody bag, a salmon handbag, and two sole handbags.
All designed with an ending: to return to the sea, decompose, and nourish. The loop, closed.

Final Project developed by Flora Houldsworth TextileLab Amsterdam Waag Futurelab showcased last May at Fondazione Querini Stampalia | Venice Design Week .venezi

📌Check out the full process: bit.ly/flora-fabri25

🌎 Fabricademy student applications 2026 are still open to learn with us this September. Apply today > apply.textile-academy.org

18/08/2026

final projects 2025-26 Showcase
What if slowing down is the practice? 🪢
Gratitude Loom is a ritual weaving instrument exploring how technology can cultivate presence through embodied, repetitive making.
A project developed porpla exploring the intersection of craft, technology and embodied attention.

This 4-shaft , augmented with sensors and , translates the weaver’s rhythm and attentiveness into an evolving textile pattern.
Each session begins with gratitude and intention, seeding the first pattern. As the weaver works, sensors track their movements while AI selects or generates what comes next. Sustained presence deepens the weave, while distraction simplifies it. Throughout, the weaver retains full agency to change, pause or end the ritual at any moment.

Congratulations to Porpla for developing such an inspiring project that opened a new path toward Harvard University! 🎓

Learn more: bit.ly/porpla-fabri25
Gratidude Loom was featured and woven on by visitors at ArteFab26, MIT Media Lab, July 2026
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Join Fabricademy 2026 >> textile-academy.org/apply

12/08/2026

Open knowledge is the future we choose to build. 🌍
While big corporations and proprietary platforms are closing access to information, Fabricademy chooses the opposite direction: open source, shared knowledge and distributed learning.
More than 300,000 people browse our open archive. Everything we develop is there to learn from, adapt and build upon.

We believe innovation grows when knowledge circulates.

And if you want to learn directly with us, join one of our labs. Make it your co-working, co-learning and experimentation space.

Learn globally. Make locally. Share openly.

📌 Applications are still open to study with us this September.
Apply today at a lab close to you, anywhere in the world: textile-academy.org/apply

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Interview with Fabtextiles
Video Credits: Fab23 Bhutan, Claudia Simonelli, Fabricademy Bootcamp 2025 Brussels, Green fabric The Makerspace مساحة الصنّاع, Holly Adams, Grecia Bello, Gunjan Kaul, Fab Lab Armenia, Fablab Rwanda

Music: Park Here Parker by Kettel
Video: Ma**ca De Michele

10/08/2026

Reimagining how we build, on Earth and beyond 🛰🌌
Exhibition | Cambridge 2026

Space Habitat Pavilion, developed by Aurelia Institute, is a life-size, interactive model of a self-assembling space habitat, still on display in the lobby of the MIT Media Lab.

Inspired by Ariel Ekblaw's early prototype work in the "How To Make Almost Anything" course run by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld through the - Center for Bits and Atoms, and envisioned as a communal module within a larger space station, the Pavilion explores how modular architecture, advanced fabrication and innovative interior systems could respond to life in microgravity.

The model was developed during a residency at the Autodesk centers in Boston, where the team worked on the Pavilion's architectural concept and interior design.

Learn more about Aurelia Institute: aureliainstitute.org || fab26.fabevent.org/expo

06/08/2026

One of the highlights of exhibition in Cambridge 2026 was Constructions 🧱🤖

MIT CBA showcased its research into voxel assembly systems: building-block assembly of reconfigurable, large-scale and load-bearing structures. Voxels are made from renewable feedstocks and assembled by mobile relative robots.
Biobased materials, digital fabrication and distributed manufacturing coming together to rethink how we design and build.

Led by Miana Smith Miana Smith and developed by team, with contributions from Vlasta Kubusova & crafting plastics! studio team, Amira Abdel-Rahman, Alessio Zazo, Alexander Htet Kyaw Alexander Htet Kyaw, Paul Richard, Neil Gershenfeld, .tania, Jack Forman Jack Anderson Forman, Sophia Wang Sophia Wang, Jiaming Liu, Tshering Wangzom , Chirag Sharma, Yeshey Wangmo Lepcha, Subham Chhetri, Tenzin Kuenkhyab, with support from Anthony Pennes, Dan Gilbert, Eyal Perry, Sergio Mutis, the Autodesk Technology Center, Toyota and the collaboration of Bhutan's DHI and Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Super FabLab.

Learn more: new.mit.edu || fab26.fabevent.org/expo

04/08/2026

Last 2 spots available in Amsterdam to study with us this September Waag TextileLab Amsterdam Amsterdam 🇳🇱, one of 's founding nodes and one of its most active labs for sustainability, researching natural dyes and material innovation.

⚗️ Attend the 6-month program Waag Futurelab, explore sustainable design, , & and gain the knowledge and tools to grow your practice, shift your career or build your dream projects.

Countless pioneers have started here. Apply today with your current portfolio & motivation letter by August 31st >> apply.textile-academy.org

📸 by Fabricademy alumni at

03/08/2026

Fabricademy proudly presented LEXICON as part of the exhibition 2026: a 23 ft suspended installation by MIT CBA Center for Bits & Atoms PHD researchers Alfonso Parra Rubio Alfonso Parra Rubio and Erik Strand, hanging in Deferrari Hall at Boston Public Library, Copley Square. 🇺🇸

Born from years of research into folding, cellular materials and digital fabrication, LEXICON is a reminder of what happens when engineering and design come together in public space. By combining geometry, folding and assembly, Lexicon explores how complex forms can emerge from lightweight and efficient systems of construction.

📍 Still on view until November at the Central Library, Copley Square | free to visit during regular library hours.

Learn more: aprubio.com | fab26.fabevent.org

31/07/2026

2026 Exhibition Highlights

The MIT Media Lab.
Three projects. One idea: architecture, fashion and tech that live, breathe and respond.

💧 Cry for AI
AI has a hidden cost: water, power, labor. This device puts living moss in charge of your access, its hydration decides if your request goes through. Let it dry out and you have to feed it a tear to reconnect.

🕸️ Electrospun Fields
A robotic arm sculpts invisible electric fields to spin bio-fibers into 3D form. Second Selves grows a mask from human hair; Chrysalis spins a moth-wing garment from nothing but field and fiber.

🧱 Tessellated Biomes
Construction causes 34% of global CO₂ emissions. Inspired by termites and ants, tiny quadruped robots assemble self-aligning voxels into walls, stairs and columns. No cameras, no master plan, just geometry guiding geometry.

Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/groups/critical-matter/overview/
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