FabCity Summit – 20 april – Amsterdam

Over FabCity Summit (wo 20 april, 20.00-22.00 uur, Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam):
A worldwide network is working out the concept of locally productive and globally connected cities: a Fab City. Fab City is a new urban model for self-sufficient cities in which citizens are empowered. Amsterdam will join this network too. To become a Fab City requires having a more precise knowledge of the way cities work. Which steps should be taken now to make our cities more resilient to future challenges?

The Fab City is a global project to develop locally productive, self-sufficient and globally connected cities. The city of Barcelona was the first to endorse the Fab City principles during last year’s 10th Fab Lab Conference. The idea of a Fab City originates from the worldwide network of Fab Labs; local fabrication laboratories that use digital technologies to “make almost anything”. The Fab City network comprises an international think tank of civic leaders, fab lab champions, makers, urbanists and innovators who are collectively working on the same goal; changing the persistent paradigm of the current industrial economy, where the city operates on a linear model of importing products and producing waste, to an urban model of the self-sufficient city. Tonight’s public dialogue follows an expert meeting of the International Fab City network. Many of these participants will also join the discussion; how can we make a Fab City?
For more information and to make an online reservation (for free) please go to: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/fabcity-summit

Over FabCity Campus:
FabCity is a temporary campus, a living lab at the head of Java-Eiland in Amsterdam (11 April – 26 June 2016). Initiated by the EU2016 Arts & Design programma ‘Europe by People’, FabCity investigates the future of our everyday living in cities. As a mini-society inhabited by students, scientists and (social) entrepreneurs, the FabCity showcases innovative ideas for the connected, self-sufficient and circular city. The campus also functions as a big maker space; a place to collectively experiment, prototype and test new ways of creating an improved future urban ecosystem.
For more information and a full overview of all participants: http://europebypeople.nl/fabcity-2/