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DHUB FAB is an extension of the Fab Lab Barcelona at the Exhibition "Fabrication Laboratory" that is taking place in the Disseny Hub Barcelona.

The DHUB FAB offers a digital manufacturing experience with CNC machinery that allows the production of prototypes and objects in situ through workshops aimed at professional and nonprofessional. These workshops delve into specific issues such as by cutting and CNC milling, 3D scanning and printing, as well as the manufacture of custom electronic circuits and machines to realize all kinds of objects and inventions.

This workspace also discuss the phenomenon of expansion and democratization of digital manufacturing tools from the emergence of networks of small manufacturing workshops and the availability of shared files on the Internet. Through the open source systems are built new participatory models as an alternative to big industry, ranging from software to modify and customize objects and designs to virtual machine instructions for building personal manufacturing. Connected via video conference network Fab Labs-world projects include the DHUB FAB and web platforms to investigate this new productive condition increasingly open and distributed, and illustrate a community growing Do-It-Yourself involved in materialization of objects and their own technological solutions.

With DHUB FAB not only want to bring technology to all visitors but the idea that, just as they did in the past 2D printers, digital manufacturing machines give rise dimensional changes in the way of producing and consuming and therefore have direct consequences on the economies of current production.

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Fabrication laboratory is a set of activities (exhibitions, real-time manufacturing laboratories, workshops, conferences, etc..), With an approach which seeks new digital three-dimensional manufacturing technologies, a phenomenon in constant evolution entails radical changes to the design and production processes.

To understand the multiplicity of this phenomenon, the fabrication laboratory, curated by Ramon Prat, has been conceived as a dynamic event that will offer different experiences and approaches to its closure next May This analysis will finish consolidating a new context of continuous production.

The objects come from the new technological tools (advanced software for designing and manufacturing machines for digital numerical control CNC), and its ability to design and mass produce personalized (mass customization), finally put into question the traditional paradigm model / series characteristic of industrial design.
For this reason, digital manufacturing technologies open new perspectives for design professionals century and give way to a more flexible project methodology and able to adapt to different and changing needs.

And we can conclude that the impact of this new technological paradigm affects all phases of production: from conception to realization, the distribution of consumption, ie, opens the door to the utopia of participation and personalization.

The impact of new information technologies on living space is explored here. We will construct real-scale prototypes in order to experiment with the integration of communication technologies into the physical spaces of the domestic environment by means of new interfaces using advanced data networks, integrating information into everyday life and approaching the construction of new spatial and information structures through the optimum combination of intelligent logic and physical form. Media House Project: Metàpolis / MIT Media Lab / Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya / Escola Elisava / I2Cat.

This research group takes as its dual basis the production of models for effective forecasting and evaluation, and the exploitation of the benefits of transportation network administration and analysis, database management, statistical analysis, mapping software and graphic software. The aim of the topic Strategy Simulation for Evolutionary Design is to analyze the ordering patterns underlying the processes of transformation of space at different scales. Natural forms are not the product of any prior design; they are the effect of an ongoing evolution and adaptation. Living forms have fractal geometries and their structures are self-regenerating. Natural geometry is not so much a formal design as a strategy. In contrast, artificial forms are designed in line with finalist visions, with artists imposing a new cultural order on nature. The most interesting developments in the field of artificial intelligence consist in designing not systems but strategies, capable of enabling artificial systems to acquire intelligence through their interaction with the environment and other systems.

With the concept of new habitats, the IaaC puts forward a line of research that ensures the definition of habitable environments in keeping with a new mixed conception of the city. Here the city becomes a habitable place, different and diversely adaptable to people and to a new interaction with the environment. This is a cluster city where the concepts of culture, ecology, nature, solidarity and sustainability are interwoven to make a high quality of communal life a reality; to improve living standards through a process of hybridization and revival of the landscape and the recycling of our surroundings; to increase environmental sensitivity in order to work with renewable energies and intelligent systems for environmental treatment; and to create social awareness for a better and richer human interaction.

Agenda 21 for the Industry of Architecture is oriented towards the development of a R+D program for sustainable, ecological, advanced construction. The challenge is to generate an agenda for the architecture industry ranging from the development of new materials and the intelligent use of the natural environment to the application of new research and production technologies in the definition of habitable space. This means involving manufacturers, major trade sectors and industry-based researchers in order to create points of reference for the development of new concepts such as eco-construction, self-generation of energy in proximity to its consumption, and energy efficiency in production processes and the recycling of materials.

A new kind of ‘geo-urban’ territoriality defines the city today, resulting in a high degree of complexity and an infrastructural diversity that proclaims its own multiple nature of interlinked events and spaces. Just as we recognize the existence of a plural city, we also have to recognize the existence of a multiple city: a multi-city. The definition of the ‘metapolis’ goes beyond the modern metropolis, involving the existence of a vibrant territory, similar at the general (global) and diverse at the particular (local) level. The contemporary metapolis is defined as a dynamic and mutable system made up of collisions, encounters and intersections that end up yielding an extensive variety of combinations and scenarios, both real and virtual, specific and plural. This city can no longer be defined as an island: it must be seen as a wide spectrum of situations — ‘cities inside the city.’ This is the essence of the contemporary metapolis: that is, to become a ‘hyper-place,’ a ‘place of places.’ The study of its strategic orientation, its network of articulation, its evolutionary capability and its qualitative development will be the objectives of this line of investigation.