🏭Make Works for Food Producers
Your Hub is not an island
What is this tool about and why is it relevant ?
Make.works is a platform originally born to connect and give visibility to fabricators, material suppliers and workshop facilities that aims to be sustainable and produce locally.
It is conceived as a free of access global catalog of manufacturer where users can search by material, process or by factory name to find someone to help you in realising your project. it has been created with the objective of democratising access to production and investing in local economies, skills and community.
The Parisian Fab City Hub team, with its focus on food production, believed that this platform, its vision and its objectives would be the ideal tool to support the development of a growing local food community focusing on sustainability and circularity by providing visibility, facilitate connections, and enhance interactions among its actors.
For these reasons the local team started a series of actions (video making of food producers, setting up of the platform with new functionalities focusing on food) to launch the parisian Make Works node in order to respond to their specific objectives :
Valuing actors who often do not have the time or resources to make themselves visible through the video making
Connecting local food actors to a larger community via the platform
Gaining a clear understanding of the local food ecosystem in the parisian metropolitan area through upstream research
Local Outcomes 👍
The setting up of Make.Works Paris node and its adaptation for the communities of food producers allowed the local team in Paris to obtain the following achievements:
→ it gave visibility and fostered connections among circular food producers in the Parisian region
→ it paved the way for future partnerships and knowledge-exchange among urban food producers
→ it aims to become the virtual space to share tools and know-how about food production
Organisational Practices
The use of this tool contributed to the following changes in local organisational practices each of them may relate to some of the three foundational aspects of a FCH: Vision , Community and Infrastructure.
OP1. Activating interactions and facilitating connections and collaborations among the different actors active in urban environments
OP2. Access and connection to information, communities, projects and initiatives related to the local distributed creative and productive ecosystems
OP3. Embracing emergence of new needs, projects, and organisations through open and resilient structures amidst rapidly changing and hazardous environments
OP10. Multi-layered coordination combining physical spaces and facilities, with digital communication for diverse communities
Key Steps
Find here a list of key steps you can follow if you want to set up a new node of Make.Works :
Map-out the key actors of your local food production and transformation ecosystem
Select the most interesting one and get in contact with them
Define a precise outline of the type of portrait you want to realise ( video, video+interview, etc etc)
Prepare a detailed roadmap to visit and realise the type of portrait you have decided to make
Work on all the recorded material toward the final version of the portraits to be uploaded in the platform
Launch of the platform and dissemination campaign
Organise a significant and in-presence event with the actors of the Make.works community to disseminate the work done and foster community building
Keep organising on-line and in-presence events to maintain the platform and the community alive
Summary Table
| Characteristics | |
|---|---|
Difficulty | difficult |
Duration | do not apply |
Facilitator I Participants | F=1-2 P= variable |
Setting | On-line and off-line |
Contact | Soumaya Nader - info@arslonga.fr |
Tagging System |
Do you want to learn more ?
Here some useful links that you can look at if you want to better understand what Paris is doing to to strengthen the local ecosystem of fooders:
→ An article about the opening of new nodes in the Make Works platform
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