http://design-now.org/

1. Design Now
Summer School
Milan 2016
Fab City: Designing Products and Services for Urban
Resilience through Manufacturing

2. 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).

3. 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

4. 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

5. Main directions towards a Fab City
1. Urban Data
2. Urban Strategies
3. Urban Models

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

7. 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?

8. Policies: more abstracts (brief)
● 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

9. Policies: topics (brief)
● 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

10. 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

11. 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 themselves
4. 17:00 - 18:00 Launch of the brainstorming and group formation
5. 18:00 Aperitivo

12. Schedule: Monday 11/07
1. 10:00 - 11:00 “Maker and laboratories, communities, cities” (Massimo
Menichinelli)
2. 11:00 - 13:00 Project development
3. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
4. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development
5. 18:00 Aperitivo

13. Schedule: Tuesday 12/07
1. 10:00 - 11:00 “Projects, Communities, Technologies, Networks” (Massimo
Menichinelli)
2. 11:00 - 13:00 Project development
3. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
4. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development
5. 18:00 Aperitivo

14. Schedule: Wednesday 13/07
1. 10:00 - 11:00 “Fab City: ideas and examples” (Tomas Diez)
2. 11:00 - 13:00 Project development
3. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
4. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development
5. 18:00 - 21:00 Public Event: The Road to Fab City Milan @Polifactory

15. Schedule: Thursday 14/07
1. 10:00 - 13:00 Project development
2. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
3. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development
4. 18:00 Aperitivo

16. Schedule: Friday 15/07
1. 10:00 - 13:00 Project development
2. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
3. 14:00 - 18:00 Project development
4. 18:00 Aperitivo

17. Schedule: Saturday 16/07
1. 10:00 - 13:00 Final presentation

18. Process: Gantt

19. Documentation: Odissey.JS
Source: https://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

20. Documentation: Odissey.JS
● https://carto.com/blog/odyssey-js-examples-in-the-wild/
● https://carto.com/blog/more-odyssey-examples/

21. Data Management ?
● Git/Hg - GitHub / BitBucket
○ Local GitLab
● Google Drive, DropBox
○ Local OwnCloud
● ...

22. Thank you!
massimo@fablabbcn.org
@openp2pdesign