By 2054 cities will need to produce everything they consume.
We are a collective of citizens, researchers, policy makers, teachers, developers and entrepreneurs working on bringing back production to cities.
Download the WhitepaperWe research and test concepts and prototypes that seek to change production paradigms from Product-In, Trash-Out models to Data-In Data-Out spiral sustainable ecosystems.
The Fab City initiative works in parallel to the international Fab Lab network, a network of over 1000 digital fabrication laboratories researching the future of materials, citizenship, manufacturing and entrepreneurship.
We work with government, industry and society to enable citizen centric bottom-up urban planning and technology deployment for smarter cities.
Fab City strategies and ethos comprise a diverse range of pilots, toolkits, information systems and insights that are being implemented through four transversal fields of focus for impacting and inducing long-term change in the present and future of cities.
About the Initiative
Fab City has been initiated by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and the Fab Foundation; its operation is adjacent to the 1500+ strong Fab Lab network, using it as a global infrastructure and knowledge source to challenge cities to produce everything they consume by 2054. Cities are encouraged to join the growing network of Fab City locations, once a year at the Fab City Summit.
The Fab City global initiative is an effort of a group of leaders, organizations and projects dedicated to explore present and future of key fields for the development of productive cities such as digital fabrication, future information systems, intelligent materials, provenance and resource traceability, urban agriculture, alternative currencies and collective citizen empowerment.
A core group of experts and enthusiasts advocate for the Fab City initiative globally, they are the Fab City Collective. Each invest resources to progress and champion the Fab City goals in their respective fields.
Director and co-founder at Fab Lab Barcelona. Co-director at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Institute of Making; UCL.
Program Director; Danish Design Centre.
Director of Digital & Future Thinking; Danish Design Centre.
Researcher Coordinator at P2P Foundation.
Fab Lab Berlin International Relations. Responsible Research & Innovation strategy and Innovation Facilitation.
Program Developer at Waag Society.
Founder and director of Pakhuis de Zwijger.
Architect/Urbanist & Tech Angel. Founder of Machines Room and Clear Village. Xprize Resident Futurist.
Director, FANDCO, London.
Director of Maker Projects FANDCO.
Senior Tutor & Researcher - Royal College of Art, London.
Co-founder at Fab City Grand Paris Association and Les Arts Codés, Nouvelle Fabrique and ArsLonga.
Fab City Grand Paris Association and Volumes co-founder. Design by Data founder and director (École des Ponts ParisTech).
President of Fab City Grand Paris; Co-founder of WoMa.
Co-Founder and Innovation Director at Metabolic.
Researcher at Fab Lab Barcelona - IAAC.
Polifactory, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Polifactory, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Director at Fab Lab Bhutan.
CEO at Ideas for Change. Research fellow at IAAC and Fab Lab Barcelona.
Co-founder of 00. Senior Innovation Associate with the Young Foundation and Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield.
Creative Director at From Now On and Professor of Design at Kingston University.
Co-founder of Underbroen and Acting Head of Creative Growth at City of Copenhagen
Community lead at Underboren and Project Manager at Copenhagen Maker
