Fostering education & innovation

The world wide distributed campus is formed by a network of innovation laboratories, the Fabricademy Nodes. Laboratories offering the Fabricademy educational program are well equipped locations, trained and certified to offer the program and able to foster innovative practices that embody the Fabricademy vision and values. They are located throughout the world in different regions, creating access points to the global knowledge network, bridging complex high-level innovation and world-wide expertise, to local challenges and context.

Each Laboratory has gone through an approval process to ensure a cohesive and leveled execution of the program. Attending the program in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain or Jordan offers a very similar equipment setup, yet each node has its own characteristics and special features - technological, cultural, material or contextual. Each node is led by a trained Fabricademy instructor - a guru that supports the participants in the hands-on learning, tackling of challenges during experimentation and inspiring approaches to innovation.

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Participants can choose a location that suits their needs and interests by navigating to the list of nodes below.

Discover the Fabricademy International Network and the active Labs for the enrollment of 2025/2026 academic year, as well as the laboratories that hosted the program in the previous years.

Amsterdam, NL

TextileLab Amsterdam, Waag

Barcelona, Spain

Iaac
Fab Lab Barcelona

Bilbao, Spain

Basque BioDesign Center

Brussels, Belgium

Green Fabric

Dilijan, Armenia

FabLab Armenia

Amman, Jordan

CPF Makerspace

Kigali, Rwanda

Fab Lab Rwanda

Merida, Mexico

FabLab Yucatan

Lima, Peru

Fab Lab Esan

Puebla, Mexico

Ibero IDIT Puebla

Mumbai, India

Somaiya Design School (SSD)

Kamakura, Japan

SkyLab Workshop

Kamakura, Japan

Fab Lab Kamakura

Leon, Spain

Fab Lab Leon

Milan, Italy

Fab Lab OpenDOt

2024/25 Nodes

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Asia

Fab Lab Armenia, Dilijan
Contact: Babken Chugaszyan

SkyLab Workshop, Kamakura, Japan
Contact: Rico Kantatham

Somaiya School of Design (SSD)
Mumbai, India

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Europe

Green Fabric, Bruxelles, Belgium
Contact: Valentine Fruchart

Basque Bio Design Center, Bilbao, Spain
Contact: Zana Bosnic & Eduardo Loreto

Fab Lab Leon, Spain
Contact: Nuria Robles

Iaac, Fab Lab Barcelona, Spain
Institute for Advanced
Architecture of Catalonia
Contact: Luciana Asinari

TextileLab Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Waag Future Lab
Contact: Cecilia Raspanti

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North & Central America

Fab Lab Yucatan, Mexico
Contact: Ileana Ceron Palma

Ibero IDIT Fab Lab Puebla, Mexico
Contact: Aristarco Cortés

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South America

Fab Lab Esan, Lima, Peru
Contact: Jorge Valerio

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Middle East

CPF Makerspace (Techworks), Amman, Jordan
Contact: Ismail Hakki

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Africa

Fab Lab Rwanda
Contact: Bizimana Danny

How to find a Fab Lab or makerspace close to you?

• Search your closest lab at fablabs.io or on the internet.
• Look for local makerspaces, maker communities or co-working spaces with Fab Lab equipment.
• Contact Local Universities and Tech Centers to learn if they offer access to the public.

Join the network!

Applications for becoming a Fabricademy Lab are now OPEN. Take the opportunity to offer the program at your space next September 2025.

Register your lab today!

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Join Fabricademy remotely

Participants may join Fabricademy remotely if they have access to a Fab Lab, textile lab, or Makerspace for hands-on learning.
Remote participants are assigned to an instructor for guidance and must secure their own equipment and materials.
To join from another lab, please select SINGLE Node while completing your application and refer to the costs associated with home attendance.

Once you have registered to the program, you will receive a comprehensive list with links to purchase the materials required.
Please anticipate a budget of approximately $50-100 per week, totaling around $1500 for both the weekly assignments and your final project.

For more information regarding costs and equipment, refer to the Tuition Fee table or get in touch with Fabricademy Coordination.

Join the Fabricademy Labs Network

Fabricademy is offered in various locations (the Fabricademy nodes) and blends theoretical knowledge and global perspectives with practical application within a digital and biofabrication environment. Many of the courses include assignments, projects, and research that require students to engage with physical tools and technologies found in a FabLab or Makerspace.
Becoming part of our Laboratories Network is open to different kinds of entities like FabLabs, Universities, co-working spaces, research centers, creative spaces, enterprises and any educational environment.

In the picture our Fabricademy Lab Green Fabric - Brussels, host of the upcoming Fabricademy Bootcamp May 2025.

Qualified Trainers

To implement the Fabricademy program in your Lab, it is essential to have a qualified instructor who has successfully graduated from the Fabricademy course. In the first year, you can train your staff to become certified instructors for the program. You will be assigned a remote instructor who will meet with the participants twice a week to support, guide, and evaluate them throughout the entire course. Moreover, you will attend the online weekly review and lecture and additional online tutorials that Fabricademy organizes.
You can also implement the program by hiring a Fabricademy graduate to work in your lab, or by giving the opportunity to one of your team members to study abroad at one of our active Fabricademy locations in the first year and establish the node in the following year. Finally, it is highly recommended that your staff willing to become certified instructors attend our annual Bootcamp held at the end of May each year.

Lab Equipment

The minimal equipment and materials key inventory required for the places willing to offer the program are listed highlighted below. Fabricademy inventory is an extension to the Fab Lab inventory with Textile Equipment and a Bio Lab.
Fabricademy inventory is an extension to the Fab Lab inventory with Textile Equipment and a Bio Lab.

Consumables

Once the process of signing up your space as a Fabricademy Lab and enrolling the staff to receive the training is complete, Fabricademy coordination will share a complete list of the consumables needed throughout the program.
We have a list of all possible inventory required for setting up a Lab from Zero explaining the consumables required for each learning module at our inventory. If the node is unable to allocate funds for purchasing new equipment, Fabricademy provides valuable open-source alternatives for building machines and tools yourself.
If you need guidance for setting up a TextileLab or a Biolab, please contact coordination@textile-academy.org.

Applications for becoming a Fabricademy Lab are now OPEN.
Take the opportunity to offer the program at your space next September 2025.

Register your lab today!