Fab Academy 2023 · Singapore

How to make (almost) anything

A field journal of cardboard structures, digital fabrication, electronics, community workshops, and one whale-sized final project.

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The story in four steps

Learning became impact.

Begin with the maker and the Whale, continue through the projects it inspired, then return to the Fab Academy process archive.

Discover the cardboard practice, teaching interests, and community work behind the projects.

See how an eight-metre cardboard sculpture joined fabrication, electronics, sustainability, and public interaction.

Explore five projects that carried the Whale's lessons into youth, wellness, education, and community spaces.

Return to the weekly Fab Academy experiments, failures, files, and fabrication techniques that started it all.

Impact Atlas

The Whale was not an ending. It became a starting point for public installations, international workshops, social causes, and student-led making.

The eight-metre final project that connected sustainable structure, electronics, and public interaction.

Student work, community themes, and a national launch attended by Singapore's leaders.

A participatory cardboard classroom created with the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre.

Cross-border workshops, cardboard building, maker education, and shared learning.

Seven student-built landmarks celebrating seven decades across the campus.

Ten thousand donated toys brought choice and joy to nearly 2,500 children.

Weekly Assignments

Each week keeps its video-thumbnail card treatment, so the archive remains visual while the full documentation stays one click away.