FAB&FEEL – Celebrate the new edition of YouFab Global Awards

The entries for YouFab Global Creative Awards are back for 2016!

From August 1st until October 31st, register your innovative project to the competition!

The awards, which are being held for the 5th consecutive year this year, recognize and celebrate creative works and inventions that stem from a powerful collaboration between digital and physical fabrication. This is based on the concept that Fab = creativity transcends and combines the digital and physical realms.

Organised by FabCafe Global, YouFab will be managed in Spain by FabCafe Barcelona.

On September 14th, Fab&Feel will therefore celebrate the launching of the competition and invite you to become tomorrow’s maker.

By presenting the YouFab & Yamaha Award,  Mariko Suzuki, head of FabCafe Tokyo, will demonstrate how the makers movement has entered a new eire. Digital fabrication tools now have to be used not only to create useful and aesthetics products, they also have to serve social and ecological advances and to create emotions.

Cecilia Tham, founder of MOB, will also present a new method and tool for innovation. Each one of us is a potential maker that can make its ideas become prototypes.

DETAILED PROGRAM:

15h-19h:  The switch to your emotions – creativity workshop in pair

Introduction to the use of digital fabrication machines and to the process of creation by !Me (NOTme) – digital artist from Barcelona

More info & registrations HERE.

19h40-20h: introduction to YouFab by Mariko SUZUKI (FabCafe Tokyo) and Yamaha Prize by Taishi KAMIYA, VA Group New Business Development Department Research & Development Division YAMAHA CORPORATION

20h-21h: from idea to prototype, on-live innovation experience by Cecilia Tham, MOB founder

21h-22h: networking&catering – exhibition two YouFab 2015 finalists projects:

– Ivy by System Design Studio

– Ewaste 60$ 3D printer by Formbytes

Register HERE to the kick off party.

Free event opened to all!

• MORE INFO ABOUT YOUFAB –

WHAT IS YOUFAB GLOBAL CREATIVE AWARDS OBJECTIVE?

YouFab aims to activate and increase the value of the field of digital fabrication. Looking ahead to society 10 years from now, the award seeks to activate the digital manufacturing industry

WHAT KIND OF PROJECTS CAN I SUBMIT?

YouFab is calling for new creatives and projects that transcend the divide between physical and digital.

FOR WHAT DIVISION AND PRIZE SHOULD I REGISTER?

YouFab2016 is organized into two divisions: student and general. In addition to receiving entries for these two divisions, the award also includes the Yamaha Award, a special award being presented by YAMAHA CORPORATION. The theme of the Yamaha Award is “The switch to your emotions.” Entrants with works fitting this theme can apply for the special award concurrently with their entry into the student or general division. Further details about the Yamaha Award, the judges, entry instructions, and so on are due to be announced on August 1st.

WHERE DO I SUBMIT MY ENTRY?

From August 1st to October 31st, fill up the form on the YouFab2016 Website. It will take you 5 minutes only! Before that, register your email address through the same link to receive the latest information about YouFab2016.

PAST YOUFAB AWARDS?

Find out about all the winners and finalists of YOUFAB awards 2015 on the website.

HOW CAN I BECOME A PARTNER?

The award seeks to activate the digital manufacturing industry and is looking for cooperative partners who, together with FabCafe, will support creators and organizations active in the digital manufacturing field.

For more details, write to hellopau@mob-barcelona.com

Follow all FabCafe Barcelona activities on meetup: http://www.meetup.com/FabCafe-Barcelona/