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05/30/2026

05/19/2026

🧬🌱 Fabricademy is coming back this September!

Get ready to explore the future of materials, biology, textiles, and digital fabrication through hands-on learning and global collaboration.

Fabricademy brings together makers, designers, educators, and innovators from around the world to experiment, create, and rethink how we design for the future.

✨ Bio materials
🛠 Digital fabrication
♻️ Sustainable innovation
🌍 Global community

📅 Starting September 2026

Stay tuned for more details!

05/15/2026

Stories like this are what the Fab Lab network is all about: people, impact, and the power of coming back to where it all started with a new vision for what’s next.

From Córdoba to MIT, more than two decades later.
For Alvaro Toledo from , returning isn’t just a moment… it’s a milestone.

- A chapter closing, and something even bigger beginning.
- A journey shaped by making, learning, and community
- A future still being built together

🌎 The future is built by those who keep showing up.

👉 Join Alvaro and a global community of changemakers at FAB26 Boston

05/11/2026

🌍 From around the world to Boston

We are excited to announce the recipients of the FAB26 Community Access Pass, selected from more than 100 applications across the global Fab Lab network.

Each submission shared powerful stories of impact and commitment to making digital fabrication accessible in communities worldwide. Through this initiative, we are supporting participants from across the globe to join us in Boston—helping make FAB26 more inclusive and representative.

To everyone who applied: thank you. Your work continues to inspire this community.

FAB26 is a space to connect, learn, and imagine the next 25 years of Fab Labs—together.

🎟 Tickets are still on sale:
https://fab26.fabevent.org/media/from-around-the-world-to-boston

📍 Boston & Cambridge
📅 July 27–31, 2026

Join us.

04/28/2026

🔐 Cybersecurity for today’s connected world

Want to learn how to protect data, systems, and communication?

This 4-week Fab Futures Cybersecurity course introduces the key tools and concepts you need—from cryptography to real-world threats and defenses.

📅 Course schedule:
June 22, 25, 29
July 2, 6, 9, 13, 17

💡 You’ll learn how to:
✔️ Understand secure communication
✔️ Identify risks and vulnerabilities
✔️ Apply tools for encryption and protection
✔️ Think critically about digital security

A great opportunity for anyone interested in tech, security, and the future of digital systems.

🚀 Join us and start building your cybersecurity skills.

04/26/2026

🌍 FAB26 Boston is where the future of making comes together.

This summer, the global Fab Lab community returns to its roots to explore what’s next—across technology, education, and collective impact.

📍 Boston & Cambridge
📅 July 27–31, 2026

🔍 This year’s tracks invite you to dive deeper into:
• Origins & Futures
• Tools & Tech
• Education & Learning
• People & Planet
• Systems & Scaling

Whether you’re joining to share, learn, or connect, FAB26 offers a space to engage with a global network shaping the next 25 years of innovation.

🎟 Tickets are now available — secure your spot and be part of the conversation.

🔗 https://fab26.fabevent.org/

04/24/2026

📍 FAB26 Boston will take place across a unique network of venues at the intersection of research, culture, and innovation.

Hosted in collaboration with leading institutions including MIT, the Center for Bits and Atoms, and the MIT Museum, the conference brings the global Fab Lab community into the spaces where the movement began—and continues to evolve.

These venues are not just locations—they are part of the experience, connecting participants to the history, tools, and people shaping the future of digital fabrication.

📅 Join us July 27–31, 2026
🎟 Tickets are now available:

Be part of the global community gathering in Boston.

04/24/2026

For 10 years, the Fab Lab community has traveled the world—
from Shenzhen to Santiago, Bali to Bhutan.

Now, we return to where it all began.

✨ From making robots, movies, and life…
to reimagining systems, people, and planet.

FAB26 Boston is not just a conference—
it’s a moment to reflect, reconnect, and define what comes next.

🌍 25 years of Fab Labs.
And we’re just getting started.

📍 Boston & Cambridge
📅 July 27–31, 2026
🎟 Tickets available — link in bio

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04/19/2026

✨ After 25 years of Fab Labs… what’s next?

FAB26 is where we explore it—together.

From the origins of the movement to the tools shaping tomorrow, this year’s tracks are designed to spark ideas, challenge perspectives, and turn conversations into action.

🔍 Explore the themes:
• Origins & Futures
• Tools & Tech
• Education & Learning
• People & Planet
• Systems & Scaling

📍 Boston & Cambridge
📅 July 27–31, 2026

Join the global community reimagining what’s possible.

🎟 Tickets available — link in bio

04/17/2026

🌍✨ Fab City Awards 2026 are open!

Do you have a project that combines technology, design, and civic engagement to build more sustainable cities?

This year’s theme—Collective Action for Regenerative Urban Futures—celebrates initiatives shaping the future of our cities.

🏆 Winners will receive:
🌱 Seed funding
🎤 A chance to present at FAB26 in Boston
🌍 Global recognition

📅 Deadline: April 29, 2026

🔗 Apply here:
https://airtable.com/appXKdirVdJb34gdN/pagN3lyejnmNoiJFI/form?utm_source=AA-MasterList-+Newsletters&utm_campaign=3fc9022e68-NEWSOct_3_31_2025_01_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ec718e106-3fc9022e68-

Let’s reimagine cities—together.