My Documentation¶
Fabricademy is an interdisciplinary course that focuses on new technologies applied to the textile field, from the fashion industry all the way to the upcoming wearable market.
The 6-month educational program runs distributively in many laboratories across the world and combines hands-on making with online classes and tutorials, led by worldwide experts.
About me¶
Hello there and welcome to my Fabricademy journey! I am Alberto (Beto) Blanco. I am an industrial designer and current manager @FabLab Puebla. Passionate about design, architecture, photography, technology, food and the space.
If you like you can check my FabAcademy website which inspired me to study the Fabricademy course.
Assignments¶
Here you can explore the assignments for every week.
And in week 13 I proposed my final project.
Previous work¶
I have worked in all sorts of projects. We try to keep things fresh and fun at the FabLab. For example:
Flower Mangrove¶
This was the first textile project i was involved, and what we wanted to showcase was, first, the use of biomaterials mixed with digital fabrication, but not as 3D printed products, but design and make the mould with the CNC Router and different kind of design tools. Second we wanted to use real flowers for printing in natural materials, such as linnen. The concept behind this outfit is the beautiful flora of the Yucatán peninsula, specially the biodiversity of the mangroves, as it was first presented during the BioFashion Tech Runway, during the Yucatán i6 conference, and it was also presented during the Beyond Fashion show during the Fab24 conference in Puebla.
Here you can see some of the process for developing these pieces. Special thanks to Monse and Valeria, without their help this project could not have been possible.
Heritage conservation projects¶
We have had the chance to work with museums and archeologists to digitize historical pieces for studying, reproduction and even a digital repository for researchers. The first piece we 3D scanned was a mayan throne, so we created a digital twin for 3d renderings, feature videos and as a replacement for the original one when it was lent to the Met museum in New York.
The following video is the result of this scan
Here we can see other pieces that have been scanned from different museums.
And we colaborated with the mexican archeology team in Egypt for their exhibition at the Museo Regional de Puebla and the Centro Cultural Tlatelolco in México City, by making the model from the archeological site and 3D prints of artifacts so people could touch them.
Special thanks to the Museo Amparo's team, to the Mexican Society of Egyptology, the Regional museum of Puebla, and the INAH.