Revalue your waste
At TransfoLAB BCN we propose a series of activities carried out in an education, visibility and awareness campaign “Revalue your waste - second edition”. The project begins in mid-September and will end in November coinciding with the European Waste Prevention Week (SEPR). During these 3 months, citizens will have the opportunity to actively participate in educational, fabrication and repair sessions. We will close the project on November 23rd with the third edition of our TrashTalks, an event of talks about projects related to waste. The awareness campaign consists of three types of activities: Fabrication Sessions, Repair Sessions and Education Sessions.
This programme is supported by
Well-being through design and fabrication
Date and time: 23 November 2023, 19:15h
Our third edition is focused on social and inclusive projects. In this edition the talks will focus on circularity, co-design and sustainable fabrication as tools to achieve social innovation within the communities.
Programme:
19:15 - Presentation of the project and welcome by Nada Tozija from TransfoLAB BCN
19:30 - Trashycle / The well-being of design and circular manufacturing (Nada Tojiza /TransfoLAB BCN)
Nada Tozija will present Trashycle, a project carried out by Sosped (FL), TransfoLAB (ES) and CoLab House (GR). Its goal is to explore the positive effects of circular economy and the maker movement on the mental health of youth. Through a program that combines participative methods, co-design and co-fabrication sessions, the youth in Sosped's Culture House in Tampere were able to learn and explore circularity and making. The end result are open-source guidelines that will enable other organisations to implement the developed program.
Trashycle is an Erasmus+ funded KA2 project.
20:00 - Textile upcycling as a tool of inclusion (Òscar Martínez / MakerConvent)
Oscar Martínez will talk to us about one of the MakerConvent projects, with women with chronic diseases to help them learn new techniques and generate self-employment through upcycling from textiles and digital embroidery. MakerConvent is an informal learning space that offers an introduction to new digital manufacturing, digital prototyping and production tools.
20:15 - A square for everyone? (Amaia Martín / Recetas Urbanas)
A talk about a participatory project carried out during the 2022-2023 academic year in the Raval neighbourhood. Amaia Martín will present us the mediation work she has carried out as a collaborator of the Recetas Urbanas studio, and will take us on a tour of the process in which they worked together with different entities and residents of the neighborhood and made questions together on what they could do with the Plaza dels Àngels and more specifically with the 900m2 where the extension of the contemporary art museum of Barcelona is planned.
20:45 - Drinks & Networking
Entrance is free and no sign up is required. This event is part of the European Week for Waste Prevention.
Fabrication Sessions
Sessions open to the general public. We have planned a total of 6 sessions with a duration of 4 hours each and a maximum of five participants. During these sessions, the participants will have at their disposal TransfoLAB BCN's own resources (access to the workshop area and use of shared tools), as well as technical and creative assistance from our instructors. These sessions are thought so that beneficiaries can carry out micro-projects that consist of manufacturing, reuse, transformation, etc., using mostly discarded or damaged materials and objects. Participants can bring their own material or object, or can look for an object from our Library of Recovered Materials (upon request). Participation would require registration and contribution of a fee of €24 per session. A maximum of 3 sessions per person is allowed. In order to be able to give even more support to the unemployed, we offer 5 free spots! To get one (one per person) fill out the form and write us an email (info@transfolabbcn.com) explaining your situation. The sessions take place on specific dates, and are non-transferable and non-refundable. See the dates and register in the form!
Repair Sessions
Sessions are open to anyone interested in repair methods. In this edition we adhere to the European motto "Right to repair" promoting the values of circular economy. There will be 4 sessions on repairing furniture and other objects taught by our own technical team, a clothing repair session taught by the designer Penny Papachristodoulou and one on the repair of household appliances and electronic objects taught by Restarters BCN (free session with 12 places available).Participants will be able to take out their own material or object, or use our Library of Recovered Materials, they will have access to the workshop area and use of shared tools and will learn how to extend the life of objects under the technical assistance of our team in TransfoLAB BCN. Participation would require registration and contribution of a fee of €24 per session, with maximum of 3 sessions per person. In order to be able to give even more support to the unemployed, we offer 4 free spots! To get one (one per person) fill out the form and write an email (info@transfolabbcn.com) explaining your situation. The sessions take place on specific dates, and are non-transferable and non-refundable. See the dates and register in the form!
Education Sessions
These are courses and workshops taught by members and collaborators of TransfoLAB BCN in different fields linked to the problem of waste. Participation would require registration and payment of a modest fee (depending on the session). In order to provide even more support to students and unemployed people, we offer 10 free Education sessions! To get one (one per person) fill out the form and write us an email (info@transfolabbcn.com) explaining your situation. Sessions take place on specific dates, and are non-transferable and non-refundable. Below you have the description of all the educational sessions. Visit the complete program and register in the form!
Price: 24€
30.09.23 (10:00-13:00)
Introduction to woodworking
During the workshops we will teach you how to use different carpentry machines (both manual and desktop) that we have at TransfoLAB BCN. At first we will talk about the different types of wood and what precautions must be taken into account when using reclaimed or palletized wood.
We will proceed with the features and a presentation on how to use the most common woodworking machines: table saw, miter saw, band saw, table thicknesser, biscuit joiner, hand router, - belt sander, roto-orbital sander.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 5
Deadline for registration: 2 days before the course
Instructors: Faku Uzal
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 20€
04.10.23 (10:00-12:00), 18.10.23 (17:00-19:00)
Mekanika Pro L CNC milling machine training
Do you know what a CNC machine is and what it is for? CAD/CAM? Spindle? Mandrill? Tools? Axes? G code?
We will explain these and answer your questions, clarifying doubts and showing you basic concepts of this very functional tool in the Fab Lab world. We will manufacture an example through our Mekanika Pro L model.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 7
Last registration date: 2 days before the start of the course
Instructors: Rodrigo Rosario Dalvo
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 2
Price: 20€
06.10.23 (17:00-18:30)
Learn to write with iron thread
In this course you will learn how to write or draw with iron thread. By using a variety of hand tools you can take home your name or the one of your loved ones, or you can think of your own drawing and make it. It is a perfect course to develop your craft skills, and in the future create various details and decorative elements.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 6
Deadline for registration: 2 days before the start of the course
Instructors: Rogeli Rull
Languages: Spanish, English, Catalan
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 15€
07.10.23 (10:00-12:00)
Make your Hawaii lamp
Come and make your own Hawaii lamp from a discarded bicycle wheel. We will start with a visit to the centre and a brief introduction into the creation with transformation and reuse. Then you will create and customize your Hawaii lamp. You will learn how to connect the lamp holder with the cable, find out that it works and you will connect all the parts of the bike in a creative process. Basic tools will be used during creation (pliers, screwdriver and tweezers).
In the end, you will not only have the possibility to be a maker for a day, but you will take home an object to decorate your home.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 6
Deadline for registration: 2 days before the course
Instructors: Nada Tozija
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 8€
18.10.23 (18:00-19:30)
How to make with anything
Would you like to learn how to transform your waste and other discarded objects into functional designs? Through a practical approach you will learn to design your own creations and combine different materials and objects, learn how to connect them and how to ideate a new design. And who knows, maybe one day these designs will become prototypes?
Number of participants: min 3 / max 8
Deadline for registration: 2 days before the course
Instructors: Nada Tozija
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 12€
25.10.23 (18:00-20:00)
Visible mending
This workshop is an introduction on how we can fix our clothes in a creative way and
give a second life to garments we would throw away. In this course you will learn techniques on visible mending and Penny will teach us basic tips about materials such as
needles, threads and fabrics. We will also learn different stitches and experiment with
with scraps and materials that we already have in our house. Repairing is a small act of resistance.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 8
Deadline for registration: 2 days before the course
Instructors: Penny Papachristodoulou
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 18€
07.11.23 (17:00-19:00)
Welding for beginners
Welding initiation workshop. We will teach you the differences between welding with electrodes and with wire, what protection to wear and the additional tools needed. It will be possible to weld with both machines.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 5
Deadline for registration: 2 days before the course
Instructors: Faku Uzal
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 24€
16.11.23 (17:00-19:00)
Learn how to make sheets from recycled plastic
During this course you will have the opportunity to learn the process of manufacturing sheets using our press made under the open source design of Precious Plastic. We will talk about plastics and their characteristics, how to convert them into sheets, their possible use and the forms of mechanization. We will show you samples, and finally we will show you the entire process from shredding to preparation and manufacturing.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 6
Last registration date: 2 days before the start of the course
Instructors: Faku Uzal
Languages: Spanish, English
Subsidised spot: 1
Price: 18€
16.11.23 (18:00-20:00)
Biomaterials from organic waste
This workshop is an introduction to biomaterials, we will experience the creation of a material made from our organic waste. We will elaborate waste that each one wants to explore and different natural additives.
Number of participants: min 3 / max 10
Last registration date: 2 days before the start of the course
Instructors: Almacén de Residuos and Lara Campos
Languages: Spanish, English
