Fab City Prototype: Designing and Making for the Real World

Essay, Fab Lab Barcelona, IaaC, No Density, Technology and fabrication, Tomas Diez, Urban Paradigms

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This article is the extract of the proposal submitted by the Fab City global initiative to the European Commission call for Circular Economy large scale demonstrators. The proposal did not get through the second phase due to the “lack of impact and concretion”. We believe that this project needs to happen, and we will make it happen.

There is a pressing need to reimagine cities and how they operate in order to respond to the ecological and social challenges of our time. Cities hold the potential for the reinvention of the current linear economy paradigm to a Circular Economy, and the Fab City Prototypes project aims to accelerate this paradigm change, allowing consumers to become actors of the design, prototyping and production processes at the local scale, while sharing knowledge globally.