Fab City Hub infrastructure

This group of principles focuses more on the tangible assets of the Fab City Hubs: What about physical space and fabrication facilities? How should those be managed or designed? Are productive facilities meant to replace traditional production or rather used to reskill local communities?

• Principle eight: 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. This could simply mean to temporarily leave empty some portion of the space or without attributing it to a precise function for later occupation or transformation.

• Principle nine: FCHs are not replacing factories Hubs are more intended as cultural spaces whose facilities are means for innovation, reskilling, citizens empowerment and conviviality. They create new narratives and new business models by promoting awareness.

• Principle ten: FCHs are multi-layered spaces, both physical and digital External communication can be used to reach out to local and global communities.