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

“Waste is only waste until someone sees the resource” 🐑💧🧶Wool&Flow, final project 2025–26 by Martina Muroni, explores ...
12/10/2026

“Waste is only waste until someone sees the resource” 🐑💧🧶
Wool&Flow, final project 2025–26 by Martina Muroni, explores how local rustic wool in France can be transformed through water-efficient washing, , felting and biocomposite making.

Martina investigates how to wash using its own natural wash water, exploring ways to reuse water and recover wool as a valuable material resource.

🌿 After graduating, she completed a three-week residency at , refining her fermentation-based wool washing system and experimenting with natural dyes, biocomposites and recovered wool.

🔗 Learn more on our blog: textile-academy.org/woolresearch/ and discover the whole process: bit.ly/martinam-fabri25

Project developed at Le Textile Lab Lyon and supported by the EU project. Showcased at 26 and further developed at .

Fabricademy Amman Design Week أسبوع عمّان للتصميم🇯🇴We're excited to share that faculty and alumni are part of this y...
06/10/2026

Fabricademy Amman Design Week أسبوع عمّان للتصميم🇯🇴
We're excited to share that faculty and alumni are part of this year!

Explore the future of digital fabrication, where heritage meets biomaterials, across different locations:

📍 Iraq Al Ameer: Clay Lamella Series - natural systems, algorithmic design and 3D printing local clay for architecture and large-scale applications
[Design: JULIA KOERNER AL RAWI and Kais Al Rawi
Clay research and Fabrication: By Simone Kiswani]

📍 Hangar Ein Ras: Ather Ma Kan - bacterial cellulose, biofabrication and digital craftsmanship; a dialogue between materials and techniques accumulated over time
[BioFabrication: Suhaib Kamal - Cellulea MiddleEast
Design and digital fabrication: Claudia Simonelli
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📍 Darat Abu Adnan, Weibdeh: Touch, Experimental Weaving Residency Exhibition - led by Ishraq Zraikat.
+ 2 workshops on natural dyeing & papermaking led by Fabricademy alumnae, introducing the community to circularity, natural dyes practices and sustainabile design
[with Ola Muhanna & Ala' Janbek]

⚗️ Want to learn more about biomaterials and turn experiments into real projects? Register for the upcoming Fabricademy weekly workshop starting 27/10/2026 at a lab close to you >> apply.textile-academy.org

08/09/2026

🧵🌍 One program. A worldwide network of labs.
runs across several laboratories, including FabLabs, TextileLabs and BioLabs around the globe. Each one a local hub for a global community exploring the future of textile innovation.

Every equipped lab with its own culture and expertise share the same mission: empowering the next generation of textile innovators to prototype, question and reinvent the industry from the ground up.
From bio-materials to e-textiles, wearables to soft robotics applications. Fabricademy participants not only learn about technology, they also shape what become next.

🌐 Find your local node and join us this September. Apply now at a lab close to you
>> textile-academy.org/apply

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Interview with Claudia Simonelli, Valentine Fruchart
Video Credits: Ma**ca De Michele, Fabricademy Bootcamp 2025 Brussels at Green Fabric, Eduardo Loreto, Dineshkumar, Amaya De Yavorsky, Rawan Aziziyeh, Fab Lab Armenia Fabricademy Bootcamp 2024, Florencia Moyano, Dima Hejap, Gunjan Kaul.

Music: No Rat by Kettel
Video:

🧪How do colours affect us emotionally and what happens if we give ourselves time and space to truly observe them? Aísthi...
01/09/2026

🧪How do colours affect us emotionally and what happens if we give ourselves time and space to truly observe them?

Aísthi̱ma: Hidden power of colors, is the 2025-26 project developed by Svetlana Khachatryan at Fab Lab Armenia.

The project invites a slower, more conscious observation of colour, investigating how it shapes the way we feel and perceive our environment. Developed through material research in natural dyeing, studies on emotional responses to colour and an immersive installation called the Mood Room, Aisthima transforms colour into a sensory and spatial experience.

Learn more from her documentation: bit.ly/svetlana-fabri25

📍Join Fabricademy this September, at FabLab Armenia or at a lab close to you >> apply.textile-academy.org

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

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

final projects 2025-26 Showcase What if slowing down is the practice? 🪢Gratitude Loom is a ritual weaving instrument e...
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

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