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Manufacturing and Value Chains
Print your city? 3D printing is revolutionizing our urban futures
In the future, 3D-printing techniques could allow the construction industry to use local waste products when building new homes and infrastructure.
Tomas Diez is a Venezuela-born Urbanist who specialises in Digital Fabrication and its implications for the future of cities. He is the director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, the Fab Academy global coordinator and the European project manager of the Fab Foundation.