The European network Distributed Design Market Platform met on October 8-10 at Fablab Budapest during Design Week to reflect on two years of collaboration, look toward the future and announce the release of its new book “Design, Remix, Share, Repeat”. Ewen Chardronnet Launched in 2017, Distributed Design Market Platform (DDMP) is a large network funded…
Becoming institutional is also an experiment. Vincent Guimas of Fab City Grand Paris reports on the Fab City Foundation launch on December 12 and e-Residency in Tallinn. Tallinn, correspondence In 2014, Fab City Global Initiative sketched out a road map for cities worldwide to redevelop a capacity to produce what they consume and become more…
The Fab City network now includes 28 cities and regions worldwide. On July 11-13, Fab City Summit Paris mobilized a large international community, after embarking politicians and institutions. After an institutional opening day at City Hall, and signing the Fab City Manifesto, the participants of Fab City are now ready, on July 12 at La…
As the Fab City Summit opened in Paris on July 11, Paris, Toulouse, Barcelona, Helsinki, Belo Horizonte, Groningen, Brest, the Fab Foundation, the Fab City global initiative, as well as private and public actors, all signed the Fab City Manifesto. See below. Environmental, inclusive, glocalized, open source, human-centered, circular and participatory, based on sustainable economic…
On July 11, before FAB14, the Fab City Summit begins the grand international sequence of the maker movement. But what is the fabcity? We posed this question to co-organizers and architects Francesco Cingolani and Minh Man Nguyen. Interview by Annick Rivoire. What are the objectives of the Fab City Summit in Paris? Minh Man Nguyen:…