Fab City Hub Toolkit
👉 Start hereAbout CENTRINNO
  • MEET FAB CITY HUBS
    • 🌍Welcome to the Fab City Hubs Network
    • 📚About this toolkit
    • 🏭What is a Fab City Hub
    • 🚩10 principles for Fab City Hubs
  • FAB CITY HUB ROADMAP
    • Overview
    • 💥CRAFTING THE VISION
      • Map the Ecosystem
      • Establish key partnerships
      • Build your FCH as a learning ecosystem
        • Key aspect of the CENTRINNO School
          • 📖1. The CENTRINNO School programs
          • 🧑‍🎓2. The CENTRINNO School Participants
          • 🫂3.The CENTRINNO School social inclusive aspects
          • 🧑‍🎨4.The CENTRINNO School 21st century skills
          • 🛣️5. The CENTRINNO School Roadmap
          • ✍️6. Toward CERTIFICATION for the CENTRINNO School
            • Workshop on Certification
              • Paris
              • Barcelona
              • Amsterdam
              • Blönduós
              • Genève
              • Tallinn
              • Milan
              • Zagreb
              • Copenhagen
      • Curate the past toward the future
      • Write a pitch for your FCH
    • 🤝BUILDING THE COMMUNITY(ies)
      • Define your FCH's Operational Team
      • Organise a significant event for your FCH
      • Build and grow your FCH Community
      • Get your FCH's governance right
        • Other Resources
        • Key aspects
          • 1. Polycentric & collaborative frameworks
          • 2. Decision-making processes
          • 3. Public Participation
          • 4. Conflict resolution
          • 5. Glocal Interactions
    • 🛠️ESTABLISHING THE INFRASTRUCTURE(s)
      • Find your FCH spatial strategy
      • Design your FCH business model
      • Document to empower
      • Blend the digital with the physical
      • Define your production facilities
  • USE CASES: START BUILDING A FAB CITY HUB
    • Overview
    • 📢A Local neighborhood association looking for a space
    • 👩‍💼A Private company building a strong community hub
    • 🏛️A Municipality aiming at revitalizing an abandoned building
  • FAB CITY HUBS PIONEERS: EXPLORE PILOT JOURNEYS AND TOOLS
    • Overview
    • 📍Fab City Hub Paris
    • 📍Fab City Hub Barcelona
    • 📍Fab City Hub Copenhagen
    • 📍Fab City Hub Zagreb
    • 📍Fab City Hub Geneva
    • 📍Fab City Hub Tallinn
    • 📍Fab City Hub Blönduós
    • 📍Fab City Hub Amsterdam
    • 📍Fab City Hub Milan
    • 🔎Browse Tools
      • 🏭Fab City Hubs' Tools
        • 🏭Hackathon School
        • 🏭Collective XXL Embroidery Installation
        • 🏭Traditional and digital weaving
        • 🏭Designing Democratic Dialogues
        • 🏭Co-designing community values and principles
        • 🏭World Café Method
        • 🏭Co-creating a Hub
        • 🏭Kumu for learning ecosystems
        • 🏭Make Works for Food Producers
        • 🏭Manifattura Milano
        • 🏭Maakschap Amsterdam
        • 🏭Food Track
        • 🏭Digital Craftmanship
        • 🏭Stakeholders Network
        • 🏭Productive Cluster
        • 🏭Urban Talk
        • 🏭Open Workshop
        • 🏭Maker Faire
        • 🏭STEAM Week
        • 🏭Milano Circolare
      • 👥Centrinno's Tools
        • 👥Centrinno School Implementation Roadmap
        • 👥Emotion Networking
        • 👥Ethnographic Fieldwork
        • 👥Fab City Camp
        • 👥Fab City Hub Survey
        • 👥Centrinno Cartography
        • 👥Newspaper of the future
        • 👥Oral Histories
        • 👥Participatory Exhibition Making
          • Guiding narration on the participatory process
          • Exhibition Curation Guidelines
          • Principles and Values
        • 👥Professional Reintegration Programs
        • 👥Survey for craftsmen
        • 👥Outcome mapping
        • 👥Fab City Hub Voices
      • 🛠️Inspirational Tools for Fab City Hubs
        • 🛠️Circles of Connection
        • 🛠️Circular Material Library
        • 🛠️Communication Handbook
        • 🛠️Driven
        • 🛠️Fab City Full Stack Card Game
        • 🛠️Geo-Spatial Analysis
        • 🛠️Lego Challenge
        • 🛠️Material Flow Analysis
        • 🛠️Materiom
        • 🛠️Neighbourhood Typologies
        • 🛠️Open Design Documentation
        • 🛠️Participation Maps
        • 🛠️Personas
        • 🛠️Service Journey
        • 🛠️Smart Citizen Kit
        • 🛠️Stakeholder Surveying
        • 🛠️Street Vote
        • 🛠️Reflection Journals (Zines)
        • 🛠️Ambition Ranking
        • 🛠️Bootcamp
        • 🛠️Circular Challenges and Opportunities
        • 🛠️Circular Portfolio Canvas
        • 🛠️Circular Process
        • 🛠️Civic Realm Matrix
        • 🛠️Collective Intelligence Canvas
        • 🛠️Designing with and for the Community
        • 🛠️Fab Academy
        • 🛠️Find your champions
        • 🛠️Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR)
        • 🛠️History Map
        • 🛠️Legacy Storylines
        • 🛠️Mapping roles in the Circular Economy
        • 🛠️Matrix of Circular Collaboration
        • 🛠️Mini Campaign Challenge
        • 🛠️Open Hardware
        • 🛠️Open schooling
        • 🛠️Resource Flow Mapping
        • 🛠️Stakeholder Trust Map
        • 🛠️Story Puzzle
        • 🛠️Tracking the Benefit
        • 🛠️Sensing Strategies Canvas
        • 🛠️Local governance in practice
          • 🛠️Lottozero
          • 🛠️Every One Every Day
          • 🛠️Tzoumakers
      • ⭕Browse Tools for specific challenges
        • Circularity challenges
        • Social inclusion challenges
        • Vocational Training challenges
        • Heritage challenges
        • Innovation space challenges
  • ANNEXES
    • Glossary
    • References and aknowledgements
    • How can I contribute to this Toolkit ?
    • Organisational Practices
      • Fab City Hub - Vision
      • Fab City Hub - Community
      • Fab City Hub - Infrastructure
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  1. MEET FAB CITY HUBS

Welcome to the Fab City Hubs Network

Fab City Hubs, CENTRINNO research project and the Fab City Global Initiative

Last updated 10 months ago

Open spaces for city making

Fab City Hub is a concept that emerged in the context of the , a global action led by a collective of civic leaders, makers, urbanists and innovators working on shifting the urban industrial paradigm to one that better supports life on Earth, based on relocating production in our cities. The Initiative is based on the Fab City Network, composed of 38 cities (and counting) which aim to produce everything they consume by 2054.

Fab City Hubs are an evolution of Fab Labs, living labs, and maker spaces. FCHs provide access to activities of local production, knowledge creation and innovation in a holistic way and from a multi-layered perspective. They aim to support the co-creation of situated responses to local needs and to foster a global network of knowledge-exchange practices among like-minded actors.

FCHs aim to work as city-scale interfaces locally engaged with communities of makers, common citizens, and authorities, but also globally connected to a network of other Fab Cities. Through dedicated platforms, the network shares knowledge, experiences, toolkits, frameworks, and methods on how to achieve the overarching challenge of the FCGI. The FCH Toolkit could potentially become one of the next platforms of the Fab City platform ecosystem diagram.

About CENTRINNO Project

One of the main objectives of CENTRINNO and the overarching challenge that drives the experimentation process of the Pilot Cities is to set up, run and maintain innovative models of creative and productive hubs, called Fab City Hubs (FCHs).

This Fab City Hubs Toolkit is an iterative effort during and after the CENTRINNO project to support the emergence of these new typologies of hubs. This endeavor has already been initiated by the Fab City Global Initiative (FCGI). In particular, the FCH Toolkit builds upon and is complementary to a series of previous resources, some of which were developed in other European projects that will be listed.

The Fab City Hubs Network

The creation of a network of Fab City Hubs is one of the most important milestones of the CENTRINNO project.

This network supports the development of interconnected socially inclusive communities. It has two different scales where interactions take place:

  • the locally situated hubs' networks where different actors will collaborate to tackle urban challenges

  • the global knowledge-exchange network across the nine CENTRINNO cities and beyond


To learn more about the Fab City Hubs Network here are other useful links:

  • Join a local Fab City Hub

  • Join the conversation on the Slack Channel (on demand)

FCHs are key pieces of the , a framework that helps cities and regions interpret the Fab City challenge and guides them to implement it in a multiscalar and ecosystemic approach. It assists cities in defining their own Strategic Action Plan that reflects their local community and bioregion.

is a Horizon 2020 project that aims to develop strategies, approaches, and solutions for the regeneration of neglected industrial historic sites and areas into locally productive, sustainable, and inclusive hubs. It proposes to explore, implement and support the emergence of a new type of hubs named Fab City Hubs (FCHs), in the nine pilot cities (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Blönduós, Copenhagen, Geneva, Milan, Paris, Tallinn, Zagreb) as testbeds for sustainable manufacturing in urban environments.

To learn more about local Fab City Hubs developed during CENTRINNO project you can explore the section of this document.

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Fab City Network
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