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Syllabus⇝

MDFest is the occasion to present your research project to the outside world in participative format.

  • Explore different event formats, approaches, and audiences

  • Define the general theme, sub-themes of the festival and a Festival Title

  • Explore & Map places, communities, & stakeholders

  • Work together to identify the working groups & events

  • Find connections between the different working groups and their events

  • Define the formats, audiences & collaborators of each event

  • Discuss the overall agenda and approaches to communication and outreach

Each week, we will start with a group session with inspiration material and a new group exercise. You will be able to work on it during the week and we will meet a second time to put this together and help groups during one to one sessions.

At the end of the sessions, you should be ready to go to the next step and start communication & logistics planning of the festival.

Deliverables⇝

Text, device, image, poster, etc.

Coherent structure of collective event

Students are requested to submit all the material requested by the faculty + their reflections about the seminar on the MDEF repository on GitLab https://mdef.iaac.net/ within a maximum of 1 week after the students’ submission deadline.

Faculty⇝

Audrey Belliot

Audrey Belliot

Co-creator of Slow lab

Audrey is a designer and maker. She explores alternative ways to live towards a slower paced lifestyle more respectful of the environment with a critical approach to technology. She worked in the area of social innovation with a service design approach. After studying a Master in Design for Emergent Futures at IAAC x Fab Lab Barcelona x Elisava in Barcelona, she co-created the association Slow lab. Based in Akasha Hub, Slow lab is a collective which wants to bring awareness and promote a resilient lifestyle by questioning and redesigning the tools we use in our daily life to become less dependent on high-technology. She is currently collaborating with Fab Lab Barcelona on the European research project Centrinno.

Julia Steketee

Julia Steketee

Designer & Maker

Julia is a designer, a maker, and an artist of craft. During her BFA in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design, she developed skills in woodworking, metalworking, and textile and leather techniques. Since, she has worked in furniture design studios in London and Rio de Janeiro and as a fabrication assistant for a sculpture artist in Brooklyn, New York. She is now based in Barcelona where she completed the Master's program Design for Emergent Futures at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering. Currently, she continues her studies through a postgraduate research program in biomaterial research at ELISAVA. In addition, she is a Research Resident at Fab Lab Barcelona where she works on projects that support the circular economy and access to local production in Barcelona.