🛠️Designing with and for the Community

Activity

Credits: Stefano Borghi

What is it about and why is it relevant ?

Creating the best possible culture and working environment through careful curation is crucial, as when the mix of tenants is imbalanced it can be detrimental to all hub members – you need to select the ingredients carefully for it to succeed. Fab City Hubs work well when all contributors have an equal stake in their development, so do this in partnership with others – creatives, potential partners, city officials – to enable you to develop the collective offer. Establish terms and conditions with your network, to ensure everyone understands what is expected of them and what they can expect from the hub.

Offer a programme of regular events to make sure that your community keeps connected and this can act as a mechanism to introduce new potential members to your hub through word-of-mouth recommendations. Remember that people who leave your hub will remain alumni forever; therefore, maintaining relationships with previous network members in a light-touch way can give you a way of researching and gaining feedback on new ideas and can encourage them to share your upcoming activities with their extended networks. Fab City Hub Network's cities could benefit from a highly curated environment, which is shaped around the community’s needs and contributions. This will also help you create a stronger network outside the hub’s walls and into the broader industry.

This tool have been selected from a previous toolkit, the Creative Hub Kit, developed by ECHN. Find here ( pag.23) a link to better understand how to design with and for your community;

Summary Table

Characteristics
Difficulty	Difficult
Duration	ongoing
Facilitator I Participants	F= hub’s managers I P= hub’s community
Setting	Online and Offline
Contact	[e-mail] [e-mail]
Tagging System	#Socialinclusion