Until cities produce everything they consume.
A practical guide for cities, regions, and territories ready to join the Fab City network and commit to local production, global collaboration, and systemic change.
What does it look like when a city takes responsibility for what it produces and consumes? Josefina Nano (our Learning & Programming Lead) walks Arsalan Makinian through the Fab City Full Stack — from Fab Labs and maker spaces, to bioregional strategies and global knowledge sharing.
Stephanie Owens | Prof. of Arts & Material Futures and Chair, Centre for Circular Materials, Arts University Plymouth
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If you are starting or strengthening a Fab City Hub, this is your field guide. The Hubs Toolkit walks you through the real steps behind building a local production ecosystem, from mapping stakeholders and resources to activating pilots and governance structures. It connects strategy with hands-on experimentation, showing how hubs become the engines that redesign the relationship between production and place.
The Fab City Operating System is a digital backbone beta-test of our distributed network. It enables makers, innovators, and communities to share projects, document processes, and collaborate across territories. More than a platform, it is infrastructure for learning by doing, where open source hardware, shared knowledge, and local production are connected into a coherent global ecosystem.
The 2054 vision is ambitious. The Full Stack Implementation Guide breaks it down into something you can actually work with. It shows how to map local resources, activate communities, prototype solutions, and rethink supply chains through the Fab City Full Stack approach. This is where vision turns into action, layer by layer, territory by territory.
Thinking about joining the network? This guide explains what it really means to become a Fab City. It lays out the commitment, the roadmap, and the opportunities that come with stepping into a global movement focused on local production and circular systems. It is both an invitation and a practical starting point for cities ready to take responsibility for what they consume and produce.
Redesigning the relationship between production and place
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