The document discusses how cities can embrace making and manufacturing through desktop makerspaces, job shops, and mass production. It outlines the different types of parts that can be made from off-the-shelf to custom and how scales of manufacturing from desktop to mass production can be applied. Specific examples discussed include Shenzhen's electronics market, tiny houses, prefabricated mass housing, automated construction, and how society can adapt through constant training and specialization.

1. Cities for Making
Nick Pinkston!
Founder & CEO - Plethora
@NickPinkstonPlethora.com
Making for Cities

2. Real-Time Feedback

3. Cloud Manufacturing

4. Cities for Making

5. The Manufacturing Ecology

6. The 3 Kinds of Parts
Off-the-Shelf
Secret Sauce
Custom

7. Scales of Manufacturing
Desktop Makerspace
Job Shop Mass Production

8. Desktop

9. Makerspace

10. Job Shop

11. Mass Production

12. Parts & Components
Huaqiangbei - Shenzhen - China

13. Making Cities

14. Tiny Houses

15. Mass Production PreFab

16. Mass Production PreFab

17. Automated Construction

18. Building Design & Simulation

19. Making Society

20. Industrial Employment
Workforce Bifurcation
Train for Flexibility - Not Skills
Constant Training to Keep Up
Increased specialization, but
constant evolution

21. Robotic Sewing

22. Robot Mechanics

24. Burning Man

25. Charter Cities

26. Seasteading

27. THANKS!
Nick Pinkston!
Founder & CEO - Plethora
@NickPinkstonPlethora.com