How to: Fab City Full Stack Workshop

This session explains the Fab City Full Stack in practice

A good way to start your Make Works region is assessing the Fab City Full Stack with your core team.

The Fab City Full Stack approach

https://fab.city/

Description

Fab City has been building a full stack of tools and methodologies to enable local ecosystem mapping, while being connected with the global network of collaborators, in a collaborative approach for such an ambitious vision.

The Fab City Full Stack approach aims to flourish the different components of the Fab City Global Initiative, including:

  • Local inventory of infrastructure for innovation and learning fablabs.io

  • Learning by doing training programmes for existing educational institutions, and for workforce new skills academany.org

  • Global repository of innovative solutions for productive cities projects.fablabs.io

  • Open resource infrastructure for sourcing local manufacturing and materials make.works

  • Impact measurement tools for Fab Cities dashboard.fab.city

  • Local governance and (‘economic’) value exchange tools fabchain.cc

  • Fab City Handbook for peer learning and open design fabcity.gitbook.io/handbook/

Workshop objectives and structure:

The Fab City Full Stack card game aims to provide a playful approach to identify opportunities within local ecosystems of innovation and accelerate the implementation of the Fab City approach at the local level.

Objectives:

  • To identify the local actors in the productive ecosystem

  • To identify databases of local metrics to evaluate the city performance

  • To identify potential Fab City Prototypes

  • To define and layout potential policies to support the local Fab City ecosystem

  • To connect participants and Fab City platforms and tools, in order to sync with the global partners

Please feel free to contact [email protected] for further information.

Contact

If you are keen to start a new region, and believe you are represented in the Who can set up a Make Works region? section above, contact our Make Works Coordination Team at IAAC: [email protected] or [email protected].

We will organise a meetup with the potential team to kick off the on boarding process, provide the necessary guidelines, and, ultimately, create your Region Profile on Make Works.

FAQ

  • What is the timescale for onboarding as a region? Once the region is ready to set up their Make Works, the following are indicative timescales:

    • 1-2 months: Planning and team building, but can be more if fundraising is required

    • 3-6 months: Content creation and capacity building

    • 7-10 months: up and running

  • What roles are required to run a Make Works region? Depending on your status, team size, budget and other factors, the following are roles we believe are required, whether performed by an individual or team:

    • Project Coordinator or Region Champion legal entity or representative of legal entity to enter into the agreement with IAAC and fundraise

    • The Region Champion for the local ecosystem, gathering information for and maintaining listings, plus relationships with listed factories

    • Filming and editing, photographer/filmmaker

    • Communications, to manage social media, enquiries, mailing lists, events, etc.

  • What is the organisational structure of other regions? How are these managed and by whom? Get inspired with Make Works region’s About pages:

  • Are individuals involved in setting up other regions able to pay themselves for their time? To set up a new region, the Region Champion is expected to partner with a strong local organisation (or be part of), which will be a legal representative for Make Works activities locally and the agreement. Onboarding a new Make Works region requires guaranteeing a sustainable infrastructure, preferably a Fab City member - with a paid local team (desirable).

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