Fab City Hub communities

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?

• Principle five: Community first, space after Hubs are community builders and emerge from a dialogue involving different actors. Events and programming help build communities and co-create the hub’s space.

• Principle six: Give voice to citizens Hubs can provide their space for dialogue between citizens and local institutions, informal gatherings or networking. In this way, hubs act as platforms for bottom-up initiatives and debate.

• Principle seven: Focus on facilitating and empowering communities A hub’s team is recommended to act as a facilitator of processes and projects that happen among members. Such orchestration requires internal communication and distributed knowledge.