Researchers of the New Production Institute contribute to MIT's MAS.865 class on Rapid-Prototyping of Rapid-Prototyping Machines, with the topic of Sustainability, Accessibility, and Usability.
From April to December 2024, everything at Jupiter will once again revolve around the topic of "circular economy" in Hamburg and we are delighted to be live on site with the OpenLab Microfactory to demonstrate new concepts for local and sustainable production.
This open access book, published in May 2024, provides current, interdisciplinary research insights into the Fab City concept. An approach that describes how modes of production and consumption can be designed. The work includes contributions from the fields of Citizen & Collaborative Innovation, Circular Design & Economy, Open Source Software Tools, Digital Product Passport, Federated (Open Source) Systems and Economic Governance.
Improving the competitiveness of the Port of Hamburg depends to a large extent on various innovative factors. The revolutionary technology of 3D printing plays a central role in sustainably strengthening competition. To give interested and enthusiastic actors from the maritime and logistics sectors an insight into the current state of the technology, the Fab City Haus is inviting them to open its doors as part of the Discovery.Hamburg tour.
On Friday, March 8, the New Production Institute (NPI) from the Helmut Schmidt University launched the new OpenLab Tunis with a soft opening at CETTEX, the Technical Center for the textile industry, in collaboration with GIZ Tunisia, to invite Tunisian Technical Center members to utilize the innovative space for problem-solving in their respective fields.
The Pop-Up Circular Hub (PUCH) exhibition was a temporary hub for circular economy actors in and around Hamburg and took place from November 20 to December 8, 2023. The New Production Institute set up a microfactory to bring local production closer to Hamburg's citizens with individual building workshops.
At the beginning of March 2024, the New Production Institute leads a one-week hackathon to solve industry-relevant problems in the OpenLab Tunis at the CETTEX technical center in Tunis, Tunisia. In the hackathon, the work in an open laboratory for production technologies will be tested in a practical way using various industry-specific cases and the prototyping process will be monitored.
The 'Center for Transnational IP, Media and Technology Law and Policy' at Bucerius Law School is tasked as a project partner in the dtec.bw project 'Fab City - Decentralized Digital Production for Urban Value Creation' with the legal examination of the Fab City and Open Lab infrastructure.
Locally produced. Globally connected. The Fab City project aims to establish resilient and sustainable cities by pursuing an integrative approach. This approach includes the sharing of knowledge within a global network and the systematic characterization of infrastructure technologies for local production.
Tunis, November, 2023, Participants of Open Source Hardware Building Workshops at CETTEX and at CETIBA learned how to build CNC machines and Laser Cutters.