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1. State of the art, project management and documentation

Week one, here I go.

My site

I can say that I had quite a soft landing on Gitlab. I had no idea about back end edition (I do not even know if that is the right way to call this!!) and I am happy with the results. Bellow, you will find some tips on how I have done it.

  1. I have planned the "feeling" of my site. I wanted it to show diversity and also my playful spirit.

  2. I have selected the content that I wanted to show. I discarded projects that in spite of beeing interesting, needed to much explanation.

  3. Started editing the site. I played in the mkdocs.yml with Typo and Colors.

  4. I wanted to achieve some results such as color on some specific words, and also typo sizes so I googled how to do it. At the beggining I got tones of "Pipeline failed", but finally made it (it seems easy now!) You can check the code here:

To get a smaller typo and a specific color:
<font size="1" color="red">(Ohhh... and I am also a mother of two!!)</font>

The name of those colors (not the same as mkdocs colors) can be found here

I found pretty useful the following links: Google Fonts to play with Typography, Be Funky to resize pictures and make easy compositions and Giphy to add some dinamism to static pages.

Motivation

Why Fabricademy?

I found Fabricademy while starting my thesis project of my Master on Innovation Management. My project -still in process- proposes to carry out an exploratory study on the potential relationship between digital manufacturing laboratories -fablabs- and the clothing industry, as a perspective for the development and promotion of the Textile and Clothing sector in Uruguay. In this context, I believe that Fabricademy will nourish my investigation as well as will train EUCD in order to become a node on the near future. WIN/WIN situation!

Final Project

It is too soon for me to decide on what to research/focus my final project: everything is still too new, and I wouldn´t know where to start. I can, though, speculate about some posible paths (many, of course, because "chaotic and multitasking person"...as I have told you in my "about me" section :-) ).

  1. Fablabs and Biolabs as a tool for local development.
  2. Children, Illustation and wereables.
  3. Growing materials, Biochromes, growing christals

Some inspiration -still random:

*Pictures are from @fabricademy via picuki.com

*Pictures are from @jwhorner_ instagram

Video is from http://materiability.com/

Video is from http://www.kristikuusk.com/


Last update: September 27, 2020