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The digital infrastructure to connect Fab Cities worldwide<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can a digital infrastructure be designed that enables fab cities to bundle and systematize knowledge in order to produce in a demand-oriented and sustainable manner?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The long-term goal of the INTERFACER<\/a><\/strong> project is to promote a green, resilient, and digitally based mode of production that enables the greatest possible participation of citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, the project takes up the Fab City concept<\/a><\/strong> of distributed production of open source hardware in the context of an urban circular economy. Distributed, decentralized production and value creation differ significantly from classic company-based value creation in that autonomous, dislocated actors come together along the value chain (design, development, production, logistics, and distribution) in a problem- and demand-oriented manner in order to create a product in a hitherto less formalized process and to recycle materials beyond its life cycle and feed them into a new product life cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital interface<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since the institutional embedding in a hierarchically structured company and the central control by this company no longer apply and also classic, market-based coordination mechanisms do not necessarily take effect, suitable interfaces, structures, processes, forms of governance, and not least software-based digital support are required for the implementation of such a distributed, decentrally organized form of value creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Against this background, the INTERFACER project aims to develop a digital infrastructure that enables fab cities and regions to bundle and systematize the knowledge generated in global knowledge networks and communities of practice (data sovereignty<\/strong>) in the sense of commons-based peer production<\/strong><\/a>, in order to produce locally on-site according to demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fab City Operating System<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The focus is on the identification, definition, and design of interfaces between systems, networks, and physical artifacts – hence the chosen project title. In this context, INTERFACER uses synergies with the EU project REFLOW OS <\/strong><\/a>and the dtec.bw project “Fab City: Distributed, decentralized production for urban value creation”.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concrete goal is the new development and first-time application of an open-source software system Fab City OS<\/strong> (OS = Operating System). Fab City OS accordingly describes a software stack<\/strong> as a compilation of different functionalities and software tools that can be implemented as needed along the value chain at the respective entities (nodes, for example, businesses, Fab Labs) of the network. A federated system or network architecture enables the integration of different client-server systems and the decentralized storage and management of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More at<\/strong>: The Digital Infrastructure – Interfacer EU Project (interfacerproject.eu)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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