Experience circular design – How are products created that are designed to be circular from the outset? At the MAKER CHALLENGE 2026 meetup, experts from design for human nature, Indeed Innovation, and the Cradle to Cradle NGO Hamburg showed how physical prototyping, systemic thinking, and principle-based circular economy shape innovative product ideas.
In the new episode of Tech Affair – Industry for Future, Dr. Manuel Moritz from the New Production Institute and Dr. Susanne Vernim from the software company Tulip Interfaces talk about pop-up factories – how flexible, mobile production structures are becoming a reality, what opportunities they offer for industry and society, and why they could change the future of production.
The dtec.bw Annual Conference 2025 at Helmut Schmidt University focused on research with added value for all dimensions. Topics discussed included digitalization, future technologies, and local production concepts such as Fab City. Interactive exhibits and live demonstrations offered practical insights into the circular economy, resilience, and innovative production approaches.
Newly published: The Fab City Hamburg Playbook is here - a practice-oriented guide to local, digital and circular production in cities. The result of a four-year transdisciplinary research project shows how urban value creation can be designed sustainably.
New release: The Fab City Hamburg Playbook is here — a practical guide to local, digital, and circular production in cities. The result of a four-year transdisciplinary research project, it shows how urban value creation can be made sustainable.
New release: The Fab City Hamburg Playbook is here — a practical guide to local, digital, and circular production in cities. The result of a four-year transdisciplinary research project, it shows how urban value creation can be made sustainable.
At re:publica 25, experts from development cooperation, education funding and the tech scene discussed how digital skills can contribute to global transformation. Among other things, the panel discussed the potential of open source hardware and makerspaces, with a focus on the African continent.
Urban Digital Twins combine 3D city models with other urban data and enable realistic analyses (www.connectedurbantwins.de) and this is exactly where Fab City Hamburg comes in, how the city of Hamburg can be made more sustainable and resilient with the help of digital twins.
At InMachines in Schwarzenbek, the final version of the Open Lab Starter Kit (OLSK) was presented by Daniele Ingrassia and his team, marking the completion of phase one of the dtec.bw and EU-funded project "Fab City: Decentralised, Digital Production for Urban Value Creation."
The consortium meeting “Fab City - Decentralized Digital Production for Urban Value Creation” on 14 November 2024 provided an opportunity to celebrate four years of collaboration, share insights and reflect on what has been achieved.
Das New Production Institute ist aus der Forschungsgruppe Wertschöpfungssystematik des Laboratorium Fertigungstechnik an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität hervorgegangen.
