Tools & Resources

Here you can find a selected group of tools and resources to help you on your community journey

A selection of tools available to you on MIRO and beyond

In the community frame in this MIRO board, you can find templates to four groups of tools. You can copy the templates and go through them with your teams and community members.

The Food Tech 3.0 MIRO templates include support for innovators in the areas of community, technology, and business. All of the activities can be adapted for different types of innovators and makers.

⚡ Tool set 1: Understanding your Stakeholders

These two tools are meant to help you at the very beginning of your journey towards community by first understanding potential individuals that might form part of your community and at what stage of the design process they would participate. The tools come from the SISCODE Toolbox for Co-Creation Journeys.

👏 Tool set 2: Understanding & Exploring Community

This group of tools comes from Fab Lab Barcelona Community expert Milena Juarez. Now that we've covered individual stakeholders, these tools aim to help you start understanding what a community of practice is and how you might engage with one. The templates have been filled out by our Food Tech 3.0 innovator, SoloAceite, to provide an awesome example of how they started exploring and developing a new community.

👓 Tool set 3: Creating a Common Vision

Also known as the "Newspaper tool," this template is frequently used by the Fab Lab team in our projects when it comes to creating a common vision in a community. Now that you've gathered stakeholders into a community, you can gather to start talking about where you'd collectively like to go. For the full activity, including key questions to ask yourself while visioning, you can check the Newspaper from 2040 activity here.

🗣️ Tool set 4: Communicating your project

Now that you know who your stakeholders are, what your community looks like and wants to achieve, it's time to start communicating about your project! These tools will help you brainstorm content, the format you might share it in, and what to disseminate to whom. You can find more information about communication, visual and brand identity and more in Fab Lab Barcelona's Communication Handbook.

🌳 Tools set 5: the Distributed Design Platform Reflection Tree

The Distributed Design Platform Reflection Tree is meant to help you reflect on where your project is on its journey to becoming Distributed Design. The Tree is meant to encourage creatives to think about your work at different stages of development and inspire you to continue connecting to the Distributed Design values: open, collaborate, regenerate, and ecosystemic. You can learn more about the Reflection Tree in this blog post and directly access the public MIRO board template by clicking here.

Check the Reflection Tree here.

🤝 Tools set 6: Local and global Discord channels

To connect community members, tech makers, Fab Labs, makerspaces, & Fab Cities, we are using two channels.

Food Tech 3.0 Discord Channel: the Food Tech 3.0 Discord channel is for Barcelona-based initiatives and stakeholders working on food system transformation. It includes the Food Tech 3.0 community (Advisory board, innovators, and key stakeholders) and an invitation is also extended to the local participants in other projects like FOSTER and FoodSHIFT Pathways.

#Food Channel on the Distributed Design Platform Discord: This Discord unites communities practicing distributed design, leveraging on the existing Distributed Design Platform members and their communities. Food is one of six focus areas for the Platform and has its own channel which we recommend that those from the international community, including our collaborators in Milan, Paris, and Hamburg, use.