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🌍We’re a global initiative for productive, resilient, open cities 🌎

Climate breakdown and social exclusion require us to reinvent the fundamental systems we depend upon, a task which requires courage, coherence and long-term thinking. Humans consume planetary resources at a rate that puts planetary systems at risk. We need a deep transformation of how we organise production and consumption in cities.

👉Join us! For more information on our bio link

#FabCity #circulareconomies #sustainability #fabcities #economies by @fabcityglobal

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5 years ago

What does it take to make a city truly greener?

✨ We are very excited to share with you some of the first outcomes of GreenInCities

🎥🍿 Watch our new video and discover what it means to:

✅ Understand a place and its ecosystems.
✅ Listen to communities.
✅ Design together.
✅ Use data to explore what could work.
✅ Create solutions that respond to the needs of both people and nature

📍Link in our bio

🌱🐿️ Featuring on-site footage from our last pilot visit in Helsinki and interviews with our consortium experts on landscape design, citizen science, and predictive climate modeling.

#GreenInCities #HorizonEU #CINEA #EUCitiesMission #NewEuropeanBauhaus by @fabcityglobal

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4 days ago

GAWA means "happiness" in Dzongkha.

It was the name chosen by a team at the Fab Bhutan Challenge in 2023.

12 weeks of preparation. Five Fab Labs working in parallel. International teams and Bhutanese labs side by side. A prototyping week in-country, on themes that came directly from local priorities: climate-adaptive agriculture, water stewardship, human-wildlife conflict, cultural preservation, and assistive technologies. The five teams delivered five prototypes, one per theme.

After that, an independent Asian Development Bank analysis projected an economic return of $5 to $12 per dollar spent on the Challenge, even in scenarios where only one solution scales.

Fab City Challenge is not just an event. It's a capacity-building mechanism.

More info on fab.city/challenge

GAWA means "happiness" in Dzongkha.

It was the name chosen by a team at the Fab Bhutan Challenge in 2023.

12 weeks of preparation. Five Fab Labs working in parallel. International teams and Bhutanese labs side by side. A prototyping week in-country, on themes that came directly from local priorities: climate-adaptive agriculture, water stewardship, human-wildlife conflict, cultural preservation, and assistive technologies. The five teams delivered five prototypes, one per theme.

After that, an independent Asian Development Bank analysis projected an economic return of $5 to $12 per dollar spent on the Challenge, even in scenarios where only one solution scales.

Fab City Challenge is not just an event. It's a capacity-building mechanism.

More info on fab.city/challenge

GAWA means "happiness" in Dzongkha.

It was the name chosen by a team at the Fab Bhutan Challenge in 2023.

12 weeks of preparation. Five Fab Labs working in parallel. International teams and Bhutanese labs side by side. A prototyping week in-country, on themes that came directly from local priorities: climate-adaptive agriculture, water stewardship, human-wildlife conflict, cultural preservation, and assistive technologies. The five teams delivered five prototypes, one per theme.

After that, an independent Asian Development Bank analysis projected an economic return of $5 to $12 per dollar spent on the Challenge, even by @fabcityglobal

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4 days ago

🌍 Open invitation: Join the conversation on the future of our territories!

How can labs, collaborative spaces and local innovation ecosystems become catalysts for territorial transformation?

Join Tomás Díez from the Fab City Foundation at the Fab City Gathering in Wuppertal, where he will present PLANETAI and contribute to a broader discussion on how Fab Labs, innovation hubs and collaborative spaces can strengthen local capacities and support more circular, resilient and locally productive territories.

This is an open invitation to everyone interested in joining the discussion — from communities, makers and Fab Labs to municipalities, researchers, policymakers, creative hubs, businesses and anyone working towards new models of local and regional development.

📅 30 October 2026
📍 Wuppertal, Germany
💻 Join us on-site or online

Come with your experience, questions and ideas. Let’s connect local capacities with global networks and explore together how collaborative spaces can help shape the future of our cities and regions.

🎟️ Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/fab-city-gathering-tickets-1994538675871

Hosted by Fab Region Bergisches Städtedreieck × Fab City Foundation as part of European Circular Week 2026.

#FabCity #fabregion #FabLabs #FabCityHubs TerritorialDevelopment CircularCities CollaborativeSpaces FabRegion Wuppertal EuropeanCircularWeek taken in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by @fabcityglobal

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7 days ago

🌍 make-a-thek is going global!

After months of making, learning and connecting across Europe, we’re excited to take the next step: Global Pilots are joining the make-a-thek community!

From libraries and makerspaces to local communities, the Global Pilots will bring the make-a-thek approach to new places, exploring how making can connect people, knowledge, skills and ideas.

We’re excited to welcome our new Global Pilots and to see how make-a-thek takes shape in their communities. ✨
Welcome to the make-a-thek community!

#makeathek #globalpilots #makerspaces #libraries #making by @fabcityglobal

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10 days ago

Residencies are one of the most powerful ways for makerspaces to exchange knowledge, build cross-cultural networks, and grow their communities. But designing one that actually delivers takes more than good intent.

This guide, prepared by GreenTec Capital Africa Foundation as part of EUmAkE, distils the key insights from running international maker residencies into a practical, honest reference for planners and funders.

It covers what actually matters when hosting a residency: starting early (at least six months for visas, materials, and matching), making sure the match between maker and mentor is aligned on goals rather than only skills, keeping communication simple, creating a real sense of belonging for the makers, giving enough time for experimentation, and being transparent about financial support for everyone involved, including the hosting makerspace.

Especially relevant for Fab City Hubs, Fab Labs, and network members hosting international makers, running mobility programmes, or designing cross-network exchanges.

Find out more on our learning hub: https://fab.city/learning-hub by @fabcityglobal

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10 days ago

🌍 10 towns. 3 countries. 12 days. 450 people.

Here's the story of how a moving makerspace brought circular fashion and crafts to 10 towns in 3 countries, and 450+ participants.

Last summer, @makeathek 's van, Matty, hit the road. Packed with a tent, tables, a handful of domestic sewing machines, many other tools and materials and the shared expertise of dedicated local partners. The van transformed ten local libraries across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into engaging community hubs, into circular nodes.

Explore how it connected the communities, extended circular practices, and reactivated local expertise via the link in bio.

Fab City, @fashrev_de Public Libraries 2030, @wearegig , Zentrum für soziale Innovation, Ukrainian Makers Association, @eca.crafts, OpenDot, @iaacbcn @fablabbcn by @fabcityglobal

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12 days ago

Throwback → Fab Island Challenge, Bali

"There are things that cannot be solved somewhere in a laboratory in a great university in the world. They need to be addressed while you get in touch with the communities, while you are in the places."

Ten teams. Ten days. Innovators from across the world working alongside Bali's fishing communities, coffee and cacao farmers, plastic recycling groups, and craftspeople, on the problems those communities were already living with.

They didn't arrive with solutions. They listened first, then co-designed.

What emerged: floating solar-to-hydrogen pods. Low-tech coffee bean sorters. A distributed 3D-printed prosthetics network. A community plastic exchange. Water sensors for recharge wells.

Some of those projects didn't stop when the Challenge program was finished: the Floating Solar-to-Hydrogen Energy Pods team went on to build the Green Hydrogen Village, a multi-year programme in Desa Serangan that just won the Fab City Awards 2026 Overall Impact Award.

That's what a Fab City Challenge is. Not a hackathon. Not a design sprint. A place-based methodology for bringing global knowledge and local wisdom into direct solutions.

Watch the documentary → link in bio.

Want to run one in your city, region, or institution? fab.city/challenge or challenge@fab.city taken in Bali, Indonesia by @fabcityglobal

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16 days ago

Fab City Science is a collaborative initiative to design, prototype, and test new urban models that turn cities and regions into productive hubs. It aims to increase our understanding of what needs to be produced closer to home, and to deploy real solutions through labs, pilots and open-source tools.

Some context: over the last decade, 61 cities, regions and countries committed to producing locally almost everything they consume by 2054. That pledge set a direction, not a method. Nobody has a shared way to measure how much a city actually makes of what it uses, or to test alternatives at a scale a mayor can act on.

That is the work. It runs from the Fab City Research Lab with MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms @cba.mit and the City Science Group @mitcityscience at the MIT Media Lab @mitmedialab , and it has three parts:

Urban performance models, open and comparable, to measure production, wellbeing, and sustainability in a given place.

Fab City Science Labs, large enough to run hyperlocal production, intelligence and computation for real, not as a demo.

Thematic pilots across the network, starting with textiles, furniture, agriculture and waste, because that is where most of the material in a city actually sits.

We're looking for collaborators: cities, labs, universities, manufacturers, funders.

To work with us, comment below or email us at science@fab.city taken in Worldwide by @fabcityglobal

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18 days ago

#TBT✨ **25 years in the making. One unforgettable week.**

At **FAB26**, the Fab Lab Network came home. 🏠🛠️

Back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Fab Lab movement began, to celebrate **25 years of making, learning, experimenting, and building a global community together.**

🚀 2000 registered participants
🌎 56 countries
❤️ One incredible Fab community

Thank you to everyone who made it unforgettable!

👉 Relive FAB26 through the link in bio.

#FAB26 #FabFoundation #FabLab #FabLabNetwork #MakerMovement #DigitalFabrication #25YearsOfMaking by @fabcityglobal

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19 days ago

How do we measure a new Earth?

At @arselectronica this year, Fab City took part in a session on updating the Great Acceleration charts, the twenty-four indicators tracking human impact on the planet since 1750, first published in 2004.

The Great Acceleration charts told us what's happening. They didn't tell us where anyone could respond.

A new essay from our Network Lead Lars Petrova-Taylor on what happens when measurement is connected to the places where people can actually act.

Full read on substack and on blog.fab.city → link in bio. by @fabcityglobal

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25 days ago

Fab City in Linz this week, at @arselectronica

Fab City, joined the TFL × Ars Electronica satellite event with a workshop on the shift from Fab Labs to territorial orchestration. Attendees were asked to design one loop in their own city, starting from what already exists.

Linz showcases itself as an active node of its territory: sensing the ground with residents, logging that data so it counts, then orchestrating the people, materials and machines that are already there with @tabakfabriklinz a creative playground in Linz who have been part of the network since 2020.

Linz shows what this looks like in practice. Sensing the ground with residents, logging what matters, orchestrating the people, materials, and machines already there. Thanks Ars Electronica!

Special thanks to Fab City Linz's partners we had the occasion to meet in person: @factory300_linz startup base, the @grandgaragelinz makerspace, and hashtag @artmagazin_tabakfabrik , where the artists' community is based. Wirtschaft Innovation Linz and the Digital City Studio run with Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT:U) @itu.austria , and the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz @jkulinzwith LIT and JKU – LIT Open Innovation Center @lit_open_innovation_center taken in Linz by @fabcityglobal

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a month ago