AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities
KEYWORDS
city making, self sufficient, circular economy
COUNTRY
Venezuela
DESIGNED BY
Tomás Diez
WEBSITE
http://fab.city/
Fab City
Aglobal effort to make cities more locally productive using new sustainable manufacturing technology
Fab City’s initiative aims to build a more sustainable and inhabitable new world – collectively – through opening digital fabrication makerspaces in the hearts of cities, towns and villages. Within, people will be able to grow and make almost anything.
Technologies include digital manufacturing such as 3D printing, smart networks encouraging renewable energy, electrical mobility rethinking the car, urban permaculture and more intelligent infrastructures.