What is the Fab City Network?
The Fab City Network brings together cities, regions and other territories from around the world working towards resiliency by prototyping locally productive models in their local context.
During the 2014 Fab City Summit, the then-mayor of Barcelona challenged cities and regions to produce (almost) everything they consume by 2054. Since then, cities and other territories have been joining the Fab City Network by taking the Fab City pledge during the annual Summit. In doing so, network members are committing to produce energy, food and materials locally, to invest in environmentally and socially resilient practices and to share these globally through open platforms.
Each locality represents the effort of a local consortium (city leaders, public entities, community groups, Fab Labs/makerspaces and civic organisations) working collaboratively to produce place-based solutions to be shared globally with the Fab City Network in order to meet the planetary challenges presented by mass globalisation, the climate crisis and social inequality.
The Network acts as agents of transformation, contributing research, case studies, practices, projects and other data from their local context and their own Fab City initiatives. They work closely in research groups with other Network members, stewarded by the Collective.
By building a distributed network of diverse localities that prototype local approaches to meet our contemporary challenges, we are moving in the right direction to build resilient and regenerative conditions for people and the planet to thrive.
Currently, 56 cities, regions and other territories are part of the Network.
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