Adriana Cabrera is a researcher in FabLab Kamp-Lintfort, Germany at the University of Applied Sciences Rhine Waal. She is founder of FabMaterials, and she is leading the advanced training Fabricademy and Personal Fabrication for Care in Germany with other Fablabs worldwide.
Originally from Colombia, she works in different areas of design & tangible interaction. Having a background in Industrial Design, she complemented her studies in MFA Media Art and Design at Bauhaus University Weimar and later MA Surface and Textile Design at the Weißensee
Academy of Art Berlin, focusing on material re- search. She is implementing sustainable experi- mentation by exploring new bio-inspired design, and the impact of today’s prototyping. She is implemen- ting the concept of
Assistive technologies, inclusive design and mate- riality in the curriculum, as well as co-leading the research in the field of soft robotics in the in the Rhine-Waal University of Applied. She has recently been invited as a speaker in engaging eve