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.
The Fab City Global Initiative promotes local production through digital fabrication, aiming for sustainable and resilient cities. Since 2019, Hamburg has advanced this vision with events like workshops at Scholz Mechanik, the Klimakongress at TU Hamburg, and the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, all highlighting the role of digital manufacturing in reducing environmental impact and empowering communities.
We’re thrilled to have been part of the first-ever dtec.bw Jahrestagung on the 17th and 18th of September 2024 at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. This event gave us the perfect opportunity to present our project Fab City – Decentralized digital production for urban value creation. As part of the larger dtec.bw program, the project is focused on promoting digital transformation and innovation, aiming…
August has been a remarkable month for the New Production Institute as our team embarked on a journey to Mexico to participate in two significant events: the Fab Conference and the Fab City Summit.
Visit to OpenLab Hamburg by Renata Siagian, Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia Hamburg, Colonel Budi Wibowo, Head of the Defense Department / Defense Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Berlin, and Vice Air Marshal Arif Widianto.
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.
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.