How to survive in the jungle?
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Intensive Sessions -Testing and discussing design projects
Maker to Market Bootcamp 2019 is on! Apply now.

How to survive in the jungle?
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Intensive Sessions -Testing and discussing design projects
Maker to Market Bootcamp 2019 is on! Apply now.
Are you a designer, artist or creator working with digital fabrication tools common in Fab Labs? Want to travel free to Bilbao, with travel and accommodation and expenses paid, to design business strategies that will allow your project to grow with the help of stablished professionals from the Fab Lab ecosystem? Do you create market oriented products? Want to learn how to survive in the jungle? Then this might be interesting for you. Call is open until march 31st!
Maker to Market Bootcamp is an initiative by Espacio Open and its digital fabrication laboratory Fab Lab Bilbao. The Project consists in two intensive mentoring sessions created to help designers, makers and emerging talents in their steps to create business strategies which are adapted to the new contexts of manufacturing and product sales in creative and cultural industries linked to Fab Labs and the Maker movement in general.
A total of six selected projects will go to Bilbao, with travel and accommodation and expenses paid, to receive mentorship from an interdisciplinary team to help them design a strategy and narrative that will help them surf successfully the digital wave.
Open call
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Maker to Market Bootcamp, Bilbao
Apply until March 31st
The project has three stages:
We’re looking for people with ongoing projects linked somehow to Fab Labs and Maker movement. The projects should be oriented to product sale.
The Call is open to any project from designers, artists, makers and other emerging talents. They can be professionals, students or amateurs who are in professionalisation process.
Regarding the selection criteria for this first edition of the Maker To Market Bootcamp, projects must reflect on some of the following aspects:
Is the design accessible through digital platforms, as through an online repository or online archive where files can be downloaded. Does the product allow customisation depending on individual needs? Are there principles of circular economy in the product, or does it create value for people, companies or society?
A jury with specialists in design, strategy, community-building in the Fab Lab network and the Maker movement will assess the different proposals. A total of six will be selected to join the Bootcamp.
Want to know the six selected projects for the year 2018? Press here
Projects in the local newspaper!
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Interviews of Palpatine and erKo in local newspapers of Bilbao.
Maker to Market Bootcamp 2018
Sunday 31th March 2019: Call for proposals is closed.
May 2019: Maker To Market BootCamp (final days to be determined)
Participating is easy. Candidates can submit their proposals until sunday 31st march 19 through the following form: