Collective residencies / Olot
ROBOTICS
From Monday, 7 May 2018 to Sunday, 20 May 2018

From fiction to reality
Faber, the Arts, Sciences and Humanities Residency of Catalonia in Olot, is going to dedicate a residency period to the field of Robotics. We are aware of the importance of technology in our life, its implications for our everyday life and for the future. It is also a very wide field, so the main objective of this residency period is to tackle some of the questions that may affect us directly. What kind of implications does robotics have in decision making? How can it help us create the future of progress and with more social justice? What kind of political and social implications will the on coming work revolution have? How do we need to educate our students? What is the role of new technology applied in robotics in finding solutions for sustainability of our planet? How does the development of robots affect human ethics and behaviour? How about artificial intelligence? All these questions, and others that residents would like to add or to raise, are going to be the pivot of the residency period at Faber, which is taking place from 7th till 20th of May, 2018.
Faber organises the residency period on robotics in collaboration with a team of professionals from Robolot, they are bringing in residents, activities and organise an event on robotics – Days of Robolot. That is why we address all kinds of professionals, researchers, instructors, etc., whose projects are related to the above mentioned topics. Faber is an interdisciplinary residency that accepts projects coming from different fields. So, engineers, IT professionals but also teachers, sociologists, philosophers, architects, writers, artists and other people whose project is related to robotics may apply for the residency.
Residents

CARLOS LIZARBE DE LUIS
Deputy headmaster in CIFP Don Bosco
FULGENCIO BERMEJO
Secondary School Teacher in Electronic Systems and Technology and manager of CEFIRE
JOSÉ ANDRÉS ECHEVARRÍA
High School Teacher Technology
FEDERICO COCA
Electronics teacher
EVA MATEO
Arts teacher in Secondary School
GILLES MATEU
Head of studies at IMERIR
ANA ALBALAT
Technical Teaching Advisor of the Secondary Education and Innovation Service of the Department of Education
RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ LÓPEZ
Secondary teacher Professor at the Education Department of Generalitat de Catalunya
ERNESTO NOGUEIRA RODRÍGUEZ
Professor of secondary education from the Department of Education of Generalitat of Catalonia
JADGA HÜGLE
Researcher at SAP
JOAN GUILLÉN
Teacher
JOSEP FERRÀNDIZ
Teacher
JENS MÖNIG
Researcher at SAP
DANIEL POZO BERNAL
Teacher of Technology, Information Technology and Robotics
SELÇUK BALAMIR
PhD researcher
MIGUEL ANTONIO PEÑA
Research Scientist at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
FERNANDO REMIRO
Teacher of Electronics
JUAN JOSÉ LÓPEZ ALMENDROS
IT Teacher in Salesianos Juan XXIII Alcoy. ArduinoBlocks CEO and developer
JOHN MALONEY
Computer scientist
TOM LAUWERS
Entrepreneur and Roboticist
BERNAT ROMAGOSA
Software engineer
ANA JOFRE
Assistant Professor of Creative Arts and Technology, SUNY Polytechnic University (Utica, NY)Opinions
What residents are saying about us

Arts teacher in Secondary School
EVA MATEO
Pedagogy and robotics at Faber The opportunity to live together that Faber offers is a guarantee of generating synergies that lead to new ideas and projects. The evenings around the (good) table lead to unexpected discoveries and new complicities. ...
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Assistant Professor of Creative Arts and Technology, SUNY Polytechnic University (Utica, NY)
ANA JOFRE
A residency experience above and beyond my highest expectations Before arriving at the Faber Residence, I simply expected to have quiet work time in a beautiful setting. Indeed, the residency gave me the time and space that I needed to work on (and ...
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Software engineer
BERNAT ROMAGOSA
Experience Remote work is one of the futuristic predictions often portrayed by tech magazines from the beginning of the digital era. Teams made up of people from all over the globe could work together in common projects without having to leave home, ...
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Entrepreneur and Roboticist
TOM LAUWERS
Microblocks in the Pyrenees The Faber residency was wonderful, and I am very thankful for the opportunity provided to me by Olot and Catalonia. I am an enthusiastic early adopter of and contributor to Microblocks, a revolutionary technology that simplifies ...
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