Fab City Hubs and the Fab City Global Initiative
Fab City Hubs are just a part of a broader scheme
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).
Fab City Hub is a concept that emerged in the context of the Fab City Global Initiative (FCGI), 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.
The FCH Toolkit is an iterative effort during and after the CENTRINNO project to support the emergence of these new typologies of hubs. This endeavour 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 developed in other European projects that will be listed.
FCHs are key pieces of the Fab City Full Stack, 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.
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.
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