Fab City Summer School Milan 2016 Introduction - Massimo Menichinelli

Design NowSummer School

Milan 2016

Fab City: Designing Products and Services for Urban Resilience through Manufacturing

Fab City ...

A Fab City is a new urban model for locally productive and globally connected self-sufficient cities. It indicates a new way of transforming and shaping cities that shifts the way they source and use materials from ‘Products In Trash Out’ (PITO) to ‘Data In Data Out’ (DIDO). This means that more production occurs inside the city, along with recycling materials and meeting local needs through local inventiveness. A city’s imports and exports would mostly consist of data (information, knowledge, design, code).

Trends, directions

● Manufacturing locally, and creating global impact● Distributed energy production● Cryptocurrency for a new economy● Food production and urban permaculture● Educating for the future● Building the future circular [spiral] economy● Collaboration between governments and the civil society

Design principles for the Fab City

1. Design for liquid times: uncertainty, massive change, mutations and liquid life.

2. Design products with an urban strategy: multi-scalarity, systems thinking,

deployment timeline and the city as the main scenario.

3. Design interventions for constructive activism: hacks, situationism, speculation

and critique

Main directions towards a Fab City

1. Urban Data2. Urban Strategies3. Urban Models

Project types

1. Products (P)2. Services (S)3. Product-Service Systems (PSS)

How to implement a Fab City?

● Top-down (government: policies, laws, institutions)● Bottom-up (citizens: entrepreneurship, activism)● Collaboration between governments and the civil society

(policies for institutions + entrepreneurship + activism)

What if we had such policies for implementing a Fab City, and we’d like to participate by designing for them?

Policies: more abstracts (brief)


Policies: topics (brief)


Policies: Projects (brief)

P/S/PSS projects for:

● Implementing one of the Fab City topics in Milan● Integrating two or more of the Fab City topics in Milan● Transforming existing activities in the city with the Fab

City topics

Schedule: Friday 08/07

1. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 2. 14:00 - 15:00 Introduction to the Summer School (Massimo)3. 15:00 - 17:00 Ice breaking: participants will introduce themselves4. 17:00 - 18:00 Launch of the brainstorming and group formation5. 18:00 Aperitivo

Schedule: Monday 11/07

1. 10:00 - 11:00 “Maker and laboratories, communities, cities” (Massimo Menichinelli)

2. 11:00 - 13:00 Project development3. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch4. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development5. 18:00 Aperitivo

Schedule: Tuesday 12/07

1. 10:00 - 11:00 “Projects, Communities, Technologies, Networks” (Massimo Menichinelli)


Schedule: Wednesday 13/07

1. 10:00 - 11:00 “Fab City: ideas and examples” (Tomas Diez)2. 11:00 - 13:00 Project development3. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch4. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development5. 18:00 - 21:00 Public Event: The Road to Fab City Milan @Polifactory

Schedule: Thursday 14/07


Schedule: Friday 15/07


Schedule: Saturday 16/07

1. 10:00 - 13:00 Final presentation

Process: Gantt

Documentation: Odissey.JS

Source: https://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

https://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

Documentation: Odissey.JS

● https://carto.com/blog/odyssey-js-examples-in-the-wild/

● https://carto.com/blog/more-odyssey-examples/

https://carto.com/blog/odyssey-js-examples-in-the-wild/

https://carto.com/blog/odyssey-js-examples-in-the-wild/

https://carto.com/blog/more-odyssey-examples/



Data Management ?

● Git/Hg - GitHub / BitBucket○ Local GitLab

● Google Drive, DropBox○ Local OwnCloud

● ...

Thank [email protected]@openp2pdesign

Fab City Summer School Milan 2016 Introduction - Massimo Menichinelli

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