Civic Factory Fest is an event that promotes learning, reflection and action around new forms of collaborative design and civic innovation, with the aim of promoting new opportunities for dialogue and collaboration between citizens, public administration, university and the private sector.

1. CIVIC FACTORY
FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER2016

2. How do we imagine the Valencia of tomorrow? What if we were able to combine
intelligence, experience and skills of all players in the city to provide an answer to
the challenges facing our city? And what if we were able to do it by connecting with
collectives, projects and experts from the international community?
Civic Factory Fest is an event that promotes learning, thinking and
action around new forms of collaborative design and civic innova-
tion for our city, with the aim of promoting new opportunities for dialogue and
collaboration between citizens, public administration, university and the private
sector.
WHAT? WHO?
Civic Factory Fest is a project promoted by CivicWise and Marina of Valencia.
CivicWise is an international community focused on promoting processes of collec-
tive intelligence applied to the territory.
Marina de Valencia is a public institution composed of the General Administration of
the State, the Generalitat Valenciana and the City Council of Valencia.
WHY?
- To develop spaces capable of promoting dialogue Develop spaces capable
of promoting dialogue between citizens, government, the private
sector and universities.
-To create a common space for debate, learning and collective work for
the various agents present in the territory.
-To promote new synergies between different projects, companies and
entities that are working on processes of civic innovation in Valencia.
- To promote the development and testing of tools and methodologies
capable of promoting collective intelligence processes with impact
on the territory.
WHERE?
WHEN?
The event will take place at the Alinghi Building in the Marina of Valencia.
Located in a strategic area in ValenciA. The Marina area is present-
ed as one of the largest territories of transformation, innovation and
growth of the city.
This building enjoys a central location in the inner harbor and close to the urban fabric.
It has facilities that make of this location the ideal place to become the first European
Civic Factory. This space will become not only a prototype of an experimental nature,
but also a place of reference for the public and the various actors in the territory.
During the month of November. During the first three weeks the place will be mainly
oriented to professionals. The last week of november the space will be open to the
general public.

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HOW?
For a month we will have a new space for the city. The opportunity to discover a new
way to find, create new opportunities and to make a city. Civic Factory Fest will host
different activities and dynamics:
These activities and dynamics are provided transversely focus on six thematic
areas or work from which it is studied, think and build the future of our city.
LECTURES
URBAN ACTIONS
EXHIBITIONS
LEISURE
COMMUNITY
BUILDING
COLLABORATIVE
WORK SESSIONS
ROUND
TABLES
NETWORKING
SESSIONS
MUSIC DIGITAL
FABRICATION
FOODLAB
COURSES
URBAN
ART
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THE CITY AS A COMMONS
ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION
CULTURE AND CREATIVITYNEW CITIZENS
CIVIC ECONOMY
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Actions, tools and protocols that
enable citizens to be players in the
management of the land they in-
habit.
Challenges and vanguards to build
more human inhabited environ-
ments and more sustainable
Coexistence, the human rights and
cultural diversity as a starting point
to generate territories full of life and
opportunity.
Share and create collectively is no
longer a possibility, but a reality
that generates more knowledge
and new economic and civic oppor-
tunities.
In a changing world, we develop new
lifestyles and new ways of working.This is
changing our homes, the way we live, the
way we interact.
Activities, projects and ecosystems
to promote comprehensive econ-
omies capable of generating value
from local action connected with
global dynamics.

4. Actions, tools and protocols that enable citizens to be
players in the management of the territory they inhabit.
GOALS
Is it feasible to find real participation mechanisms that
intuit directly in the management of public resources?
How can we develop proposals and urban processes
that meet the current needs of citizens? How can we
use technology in the service of citizens? How to reform
governance into more open models, inclusive and more
involvement?
KEY CONCEPTS
THE CITY AS A COMMONS
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CIVIC
TECH
ENGAGEMENT LOCATED
COLLECTIVE
ITELLIGENCE
NEW
DEMOCRACY
CIVIC
INNOVATION

5. New forms of economy more just and inclusive that pro-
mote and advocate, at the same time, the social, cultural
and environmental value. Integrated economies able to
boost local trade and develop ways of cooperation be-
tween citizens.
CIVIC ECONOMY
GOALS
How could we boost economies that generate social,
cultural and environmental wealth? Can emerging econ-
omies change the prevailing current economic model
that generates more inequalities? How could we en-
courage cooperatives neighborhoods and collaborative
economies? In what ways could we recognize and value
the reproductive work that enables and sustains produc-
tive work? What kind of initiatives and actions promote
local development?
KEY CONCEPTS
CIRCULAR
ECONOMY
COLLABORATIVE
ECONOMY
SOCIAL
COMMONS
LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT
FAIR
ECONOMY

6. Awareness, learning, processes and best practices to (re)
build human and sustainable environments inhabited re-
sponding to a new way of more conscious, committed
and responsible life.
ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION
GOALS
What actions or tools could help improve science and
mobility towards more sustainable integrated model?
What new sustainable materials and reuse and recycling
options exist in the city? What measures could preserve
and give value to the agriculture and consumption of
local products? How could facilitate the relationship be-
tween producer and consumer? And foster the prosum-
er culture in the field of agriculture and manufacturing?
KEY CONCEPTS
MATERIALS
AND
FABRICATION
FOOD
SOVEREIGNITY
RESPONSIBLE
AND
PROXIMITY
CONSUMPTION
NEW
ENERGETIC
MODELS
SUSTAINABLE
MOBILITY

7. Coexistence, human rights and cultural diversity as a
starting point for generating territories full of life and op-
portunity.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
GOALS
How urbanism of cities can be planned taking into ac-
count the identity diversity of people? How do we de-
sign a higher quality public spaces, inclusive, equitable
and sustainable? How does the construction of space
to different social groups that inhabit the city affected?
Does it affect existing inequalities?
How to redefine health towards in more collaborative
and participatory models?
KEY CONCEPTS
INCLUSIVE-
NESS
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN
RIGTS
FUNCTIONAL
DIVERSITY
GENTRIFICATION

8. Culture and Art understood as a right, free and accessi-
ble, and as a tool for creating social awareness and vin-
dication of citizens spaces. Open new forms of creativity
and work together to generate collective intelligence
processes that endanger the identity and heritage of so-
ciety in value.
CULTURE & CREATIVITY
GOALS
What is the role of culture in the city? How could pro-
mote culture and art that is produced locally? Can the
Art and Cultural be something that modify places,
alter the use of the streets, converts the sidewalks into
coexistence schools and reform ourselves as part of a
collective? How does the imaginary citizen a feeling of
belonging to a place and how in flees to experience the
city? Can the tradition and cultural and heritage festival
perpetuate or change the mode of management and
design of the space we inhabit?
KEY CONCEPTS
FREE
CULTURE
LOCAL
CULTURE
COLLECTIVE
CREATION
HERITAGE ART

9. In a constantly changing context, it is necessary to raise and
create new ways of working, access to housing, tourism,
education. Another way to organize and live the city that
meets the current needs of our society.
NEW CITIZENS
XXI
GOALS
Are housing cooperatives and new models of transfer of
use an alternative to the problem of housing? Is there a
quality tourism, responsible and fair to boost the local
economy and not have a negative impact on the city?
What new forms of management and organization are
developing and how in fleeing the city? How to pro-
mote new ways of working that have emerged in recent
years based on forms of collaboration, entrepreneurship
and collective intelligence?
KEY CONCEPTS
NEW
EDUCATIONAL
FRAMEWORKS
SMART
WORKING AND
LIVINT
TOURISM HEALTH
&
WELFARE
COOPERATIVISM

10. It is a space for meeting and discussion, formal and informal
that promotes discussion and thinking among local actors of
the territory and citizens.
The Agora includes a set of activities for debate, thinking
and collective construction on integrated land management.
A complex space from which to create network and under-
stand who, how and why it manages, administers, develops,
builds and uses the city.
It is divided into several predefined spaces and have dif-
ferent character. A formal space with conference area and
space for workshops and on the other hand a more informal
space linked to a bar.
Civic Factory has six spaces with distinct character and function but closely interrelated. These spaces host multiple activities and formats from which the six areas of work outlined
above work transversely.
Laboratory research on techniques and methodologies to
accelerate progress towards a sustainable food system.
The kitchen as gastronomic, cultural and social phenom-
enon.
Share knowledge and experiences on food, food sover-
eignty and agriculture between local producers, entrepre-
neurs gastronomy and tourism and citizenship.
Space for learning and experimentation that promotes ac-
tivities in collaboration with universities and Civic Design
platform of CivicWise.
It is a space for communication, creation and collective re-
search that thinks around the city around six thematic areas
previously developed. It is a co-learning environment where
citizens, public, private and government sector build an
open and collaborative way.
Space whose function is to visualize the activation pro-
cess of the building during the event and promote other
emerging communities around artistic and civic practices
that share the values ​​of the project.
It is the place where the community will realize that the
Civic Factory Fest is happening here, now, and is connect-
ed with the world.
Space for action and job sharing where local actors, inde-
pendent professionals and small businesses develop actions
and projects with impact on the territory. It is divided into
several areas:
Co-Working: Open shared workspace that promotes collab-
orative work and meeting the various agents present in the
territory.
Start-Up Space: accessible offices temporarily in seed stage
startups.
FabLab: tools and infrastructure necessary for digital manu-
facturing. Prototyping allows both the furniture and material
solutions needed to build the space itself and other projects.
Recreational activities will be more focused on socializ-
ing and celebration among people who are in the Civic
Factory Fest, but there will also be space for expression
through visual arts. It is both concerts and public places
such as projections and spaces for sport. Have a good
time together is essential to tap our present and strength-
en relationships.
AGORA KITCHEN
GALLERY
LEISURE
SCHOOL
WORKSHOP

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lab 7-13nov camp 14-20nov forum20-27nov expo
CIVIC FACTORY FEST 2 - 27 NOVIEMBREThe event has a duration of one month, the month of November, it is divided into four blocks or
parts with different characters.
It is a process of collective construction divided into four phases during which the prototyping
and implementation of the Civic Factory, the six thematic areas and their respective working
groups for the city are completed.
It is the initial stage of prototyping and collective construction
of basic infrastructure of the Civic Factory. So during the lab,
the construction and upgrading of the space of Civic Factory
is completed, the community around it and its infrastructure
management and operation. It is during this stage when the
work groups starts with the six thematic areas of works on the
city.
It is the time when Civic Factory connects with the
global community. During this stage Civic Factory
opens and welcomes an international community of
professionals and citizen initiatives related to the dif-
ferent thematic areas worked in the previous phase.
Contact between the local and the global brings wealth
to the working groups and Civic Factory connects with
the world.
During the forum occurs the full opening
of Civic Factory to the city of Valencia. It is
during this phase the implementation and
testing of Civic Factory as an open space
to the whole citizenship. During the forum
and with a festive character, will be the pre-
sentation of the working groups and collec-
tive construction around the different areas
throughout the city.
A temporary ex-
hibition will re-
main open from
late November.
From the expo it
visualizes the ac-
tivation process
of the building
and the work of
the community.

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incubationperiod
agora space building workshop
F U R N I S H I N G A N D R E F U R B I S H M E N T W O R K S
F U R N I S H I N G A N D R E F U R B I S H M E N T W O R K S
A G O R A S PA C E C A N T I N E I S B U I LT
T H E C O O R D I N AT O R T E A M
I S T R A N S F E R R E D T O T H E
B U I L D I N G
+ F U R N I S H I N G
C L E A N I N G
L I G H T , WAT E R A N D I N T E R N E T S E R V I C E S
OCTOBER

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28 29 30 1 2 3 4
F O O D T R U C K S A N D M U S I C
agora space building workshop
labcampforumexpo
placemaking
open forum
G L O C A L
A G O R A
G E N E R A L
R E S T I T U T I O N
A G O R A
G L O C A L
S C H O O L
S C H O O L
interior tape art
G U I D E D
T O U R
G U I D E D
T O U R
CIVIC FACTORY FEST 7 - 30 NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER
collective gallery

14. 9.00
10.00
11.00
12.00
13.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
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19.00
20.00
21.00
+school
+coworking
civic tv
lunch
+round tables
civic fun
cinema / partysocial beersocial beer
+working groups
+glocal community
working groups
+working groups - talks
+general round tables
+round tables public pre-
sentation
+ debate
welcoming
+coworking
+Civicwise projects
+coworking
+workshops
+activities
+lecture
+lecture
+glocal community
round tables
O p e n s p a c e t o k n o w c i v i c p r o j e c t s a r o u n d t h e w o r l d . T h i s i s a l s o a s p a c e t o b e u p d a t e d
a b o u t t h e c i v i c f a c t o r y p r o g r e s s
E v e n t s a n d a c t i v i t i e s t o k n o w e a c h o t h e r a n d h a v e f u n i n t h e C i v i c F a c t o r y .
lab 7-13nov camp 14-20nov forum 21-27 nov
This chart shows the general schedule for the days of each of the three parts of the event.
GENERAL TIMETABLE

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