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
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 make.works@fablabbcn.org 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: alessandra@fablabbcn.org or make.works@fablabbcn.org.
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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