10 principles for �Fab City Hubs
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FAB CITY HUBS
Understanding and building a global vision of what a Fab City Hub is
and how it operates
DEFINE
A quick reminder
Main goals of WP 3
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FAB CITY HUBS
Understanding and building a global vision of what a Fab City Hub is
and how it operates
DEFINE
Supporting the pilots to co-design, kick-off and run a Fab City Hub based on a global vision + local needs
SUPPORT
A quick reminder
Main goals of WP 3
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FAB CITY HUBS
Understanding and building a global vision of what a Fab City Hub is
and how it operates
DEFINE
Supporting the pilots to co-design, kick-off and run a Fab City Hub based on a global vision + local needs
SUPPORT
Make those Fab City Hubs operate together as an international network of locally productive hubs exchanging information, prototypes, members and experiences
CONNECT
A quick reminder
Main goals of WP 3
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FAB CITY�GLOBAL INITIATIVE
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A global network of 38 cities
In this new industrial paradigm, materials stay local, and information travels globally, supported by distributed networks of innovation in creative hubs such as Fab Labs and Makerspaces, while enabling the recovery of local knowledge around design and production.
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Fab Lab Network
Fab Labs
Specialised and Technical.
Scale : Digital Fabrication Laboratory
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Fab Lab Network
Fab City Network
Fab Labs
Specialised and Technical.
Scale : Digital Fabrication Laboratory
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Fab Lab Network
Fab City Network
Fab Labs
Fab City Hubs
Specialised and Technical.
Scale : Digital Fabrication Laboratory
More permeable to citizens and other communities in neighbourhoods.
Scale : City
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Fab Labs
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CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE HUBS
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A constellation of hubs
Makerspaces
Living Labs
Bio Labs
Coworking spaces
Educ Labs
Hackerspaces
Creative Hubs
Third Places
Food Labs
Fab Labs
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CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE HUBS
A constellation of hubs
Makerspaces
Living Labs
Bio Labs
Coworking spaces
Educ Labs
Hackerspaces
Creative Hubs
Fab City Hubs
Third Places
Food Labs
Fab Labs
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The task is the kick-off of a longer co-creation process to shape the vision of Fab City Hubs.
T 3.1
The report is the static part of the deliverable, a screenshot of the work done so far.
D 3.1 - Report
The Online Journal is a live and dynamic output, evolving and growing through all the Centrinno project.
D 3.1 - Online Journal
WE THINK IT AS A PROCESS
The work conducted during the task will expand to an online journal by the end of T 3.1.
The online journal will gather pieces of D3.1 but also will be fed with further contents coming from other partners who will be prototyping and co-designing the hubs with us.
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DELIVERABLE D 3.1
Creative and Productive Hubs
Journal
Lead by ECHN
Mainly based on Task 3.1 lead by VOL
in collaboration with
ECHN, WAAG, IAAC and META.
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ONLINE JOURNAL
An online event to launch the Online Journal (April 7th - 8th)
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CURATED
HUB PORTRAITS
Pre-selected hubs.
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Starred portraits (which can then be featured as best examples in the Fab City Hub Toolkit.)
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Hubs to be featured in the online journal.
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Selecting featured examples.
Remarkable portrayed hubs.
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A Fab Lab that expands beyond the walls of the lab
Fab Lab Barcelona
Barcelona (Large city) - Spain
Hands-on learning experience at Fab City Hub Barcelona.�Photo courtesy of Fab Lab Barcelona.
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The hub as a distributed infrastructure in the city and for the citizens
Every One,
Every Day
London (Large city) - UK
Every One, Every Day platform :
a representation of a hub with a distributed approach. �Photo courtesy of Participatory City Foundation.
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A large scale hub based on a collective and ecological governance
Darwin
Bordeaux (Medium city) - France
Darwin hall dedicated to skate activities.�Photo courtesy of Darwin.
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A creative hub but also a consultancy center for revamping traditional skills
Lottozero
Prato (Small city) - Italy
Textile laboratories at Lottozero.�Photo courtesy of Lottozero.
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Super small, super specific, super connected.
Tzoumakers
Kalentzi (Extra-small city) - Greece
The facilities of Tzoumakers. �Photo courtesy of Nicolas Garnier.
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FAB CITY HUB�PRINCIPLES
LESSON LEARNED
FROM THE HUB PORTRAITS
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FAB CITY HUB VISION
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FAB CITY HUB VISION
FAB CITY HUB AND COMMUNITY
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FAB CITY HUB VISION
FAB CITY HUB AND COMMUNITY
FAB CITY HUB AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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Vision
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This group of principles aims to create a mindset from which the hub operators should look at their project and relative challenges.
FCHs as ecosystem activators
Principle 1
Principle 2
Principle 4
FCHs as physical devices for accessing distributed ecosystems �
FCHs as extensions of traditional institutions
Principle 3
FCHs as complex organisms enabling resiliency
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1.�FAB CITY HUBS AS ECOSYSTEM ACTIVATORS
An ecosystem can be defined as a community of living organisms interacting with its environment as a system.
FCHs need to be thought of and structured as platforms that catalyse interactions and facilitate connections and collaborations among the different actors that are active in urban environments.
IMAGE : BETAPITCH by BETAHAUS
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2. �FAB CITY HUBS AS PHYSICAL DEVICES FOR ACCESSING DISTRIBUTED ECOSYSTEMS
Opposite to traditional innovation hubs or incubators, FCHs are not concentrating in a unique physical space all the stakeholder, projects and initiative, polarising in this way certain areas of the city and depriving others.
Instead, they are a physical device to access the richness, variety and geographical distribution of communities, actors and projects.
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3.�FAB CITY HUBS AS COMPLEX ORGANISMS ENABLING RESILIENCY
While the observer could confuse this with a lack of clear design intentions, those characteristics are instead voluntarily embraced and define even their core values.
By behaving as complex organisms, FCHs are able to stay open to the emergence of new needs, new projects, new spatial reorganisation, and in the end, perform as resilient structures to fast changing and hazardous environments.
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4.�FAB CITY HUBS AS EXTENSIONS OF TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Hubs have been previously described as flexible, hybrid and fluid structures in respect to their programs, their spatial organisation and the set of actors involved.
These features confer to hubs a potential to act as in-between areas, functioning as playgrounds for experimentation and prototyping of unusual assemblage of actors and functions.
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How should FCHs relate to their communities? �Is a physical space needed to start the project? �How can somebody make the project inclusive? �How should the hub’s operating team collaborate with those communities?
Where to start?�Community comes first, space after
Principle 5
Principle 6
Principle 7 �
How to be open?
Give voice to citizens
How to manage communities?�Focus on facilitating and empowering communities.
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5.�COMMUNITY COMES FIRST, SPACE AFTER
Event curation and programming are an effective tool to start creating a community. ��Curated events create the conditions for a debate about the needs for a space, instead of designing the space beforehand.
IMAGE : DREAMHAMAR by ECOSISTEMA URBANO
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6.�GIVE VOICE TO CITIZENS
Being FCHs buffer zones (see Principle Four) - often in dense and highly optimised urban environments - they can become powerful spaces for expression and debate for citizens.
By embracing this inclusive approach and by giving space to citizens and local communities, FCHs configure as sounding boards and launching platforms for bottom-up initiatives at the city level.
IMAGE : CITIZEN LAB AT MEDIALAB PRADO
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7.�FOCUS ON FACILITATING AND EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
Instead of doing and controlling everything, the team’s role should be that one of a facilitator who keeps a global vision on the project.
In this regard, FCHs’ teams are curators of communities inhabiting those places, orchestrating distributed activities.
IMAGE : FAB CITY CAMPUS by FAB CITY GRAND PARIS
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Infrastructure
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This group focuses more on tangible assets of the Fab City Hubs.
Adopt an incremental approach, avoid overdesign
Principle 8
Principle 9
Principle 10
FCHs are not replacing factories
FCHs are multi-layered spaces, both physical and digital
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8.�ADOPT AN INCREMENTAL APPROACH,
AVOID OVERDESIGN
Instead of following a linear waterfall approach, where the space is fully planned and designed in advance, an incremental approach can leave space for real and situated needs to emerge from the community.
IMAGE : DARWIN, BORDEAUX.
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9.�FAB CITY HUBS
ARE NOT REPLACING FACTORIES
FCHs are intended to be more of a cultural space for creative and productive activities, in which production facilities do not have the mere function of manufacturing products for consumption; those facilities are instead means for innovation, reskilling, citizen empowerment, social connection and conviviality.
IMAGES : YUAN YUAN STUDIO
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FAB CITY HUBS
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SPACES AND FACILITIES
10.�FAB CITY HUBS ARE MULTI-LAYERED SPACES, BOTH PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL
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COMMUNITIES
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COMMUNITIES
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DIGITAL LAYERS
SPACES AND FACILITIES
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FAB CITY HUBS
FRAMEWORK
A tool to scan, monitor and evaluate the Fab City Hubs in the long term.
A tool that can connect with other Work Packages and feed the CENTRINNO blueprint.
It is available for pilots as a framework to extract insights from inspiring hubs not yet covered in our previous task.��
INCLUSIVENESS
HERITAGE
CIRCULARITY
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Fab City Hub Paris
first prototype
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THANK�YOU!
THIS PRESENTATION IS SHARED.�FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT FOR QUESTIONS
francesco@volumesparis.org
francesco@volumesparis.org
Francesco Cingolani
carlotta@volumesparis.org
Carlotta Fontana Valenti
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