IFAC - International Festival of Art AND Construction

About IFAC - International Festival of Art AND Construction

Held annually, the International Festival of Art and Construction (IFAC) is a 10-day event that brings together 300 students from all over the world, joined by architects, scientists, musicians, artists and craftsmen. Together they carry out 30 workshops across different disciplines that are bound together by the architecture through which they are expressed.

IFAC is developing a genuine research network from a collective conscience of participation and mutual enrichment. This is with the aim of creating a place for debate and practice of arts and architecture, while overcoming the limitations of purely theoretical, limited academic training and sterile learning strategies.

IFAC started in Spain in 2012, as an initiative between Alejandro Cano, Jaime Martínez and Gonzalo Berrazueta, three architecture students from ETSAM who were concerned about the role of architecture schools in the education of future professionals and the role of architecture in creating "new worlds."​ For three years the festival’s host was the medieval town of Covarrubias (Burgos, Spain) with its less than 600 inhabitants. Marking the 4th edition of IFAC, Spain passed the hosting torch on to the Netherlands. The new leading team, formed by Stijn Dries, Pim Boomgaard, Simme Bruinsma and Nanne Brouwer set the new meeting place in an ecovillage near Bergen, on the west coast (Ecodorp), where people can live with a net energy consumption of zero.

While the festival continues to exist the name has recently changed from IFAC to MAKE in an attempt to keep the festival small and prevent drastic financial influences.

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