Fab Learning Academy

# Week 2

# Sustainability. Biomaterials.

# Pre-watching material

# Summary and core material

# Content for Node

# Discussion topic in groups

  • How can you integrate sustainable practices in your makerspace? Is there any existing guidelines in your schools.
  • How can you promote among different stakeholders (kids, colleagues, directors) the adoption of sustainable practices
  • Brainstorming for Field Activitity.

# Assignment

This week you would need to create a mold to produce a biomaterial. You have two steps:

  1. Create the mold:
  1. Together with your local instructor and colleagues cook your own material and pour it into your molds. We provide different possible recipes (opens new window).

In addition you should answer the following reflection questions:

  1. Have you considered sustainable practices in your teaching in the pasts? How? What aspects do you think should be improved in your own teaching environment?
  2. How Digital Fabrication might support sustainable practices? When using Digital Fabrication what actions you can take to support sustainable practices.
  3. How could you integrate both culturally reflective learning and digital fabrication in your environment? Could you come up with some project ideas using digital fabrication in which cultural diversity of students is highlighted?

# Tasks in the Fab Lab

  1. Manufacture with your instructor one of the proposed biomaterials (opens new window).

# Technical guides and tutorials

# Biomaterials

# Additional and support content

# Biomaterials

# Sustainability

# Cultural Relevant Pedagogy

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