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FAB24 - Get-Together for a Global Movement

Started as a grassroots movement, now a global movement: From August 3 to 9, around 800 makers met at the FAB24 conference in Puebla, Mexico.

Fab City At The Maker Faire Hannover

On August 17 and 18, we made a trip to Hanover together with Fab Lab Fabulous St. Pauli, Attraktor e.V. and OpenLab Mobile to present our projects and ideas at the Maker Faire 2024.

Introduction of the Scientific Advisory Board

On 10 June 2024, after extensive preparatory work, the scientific advisory board of Fab City Hamburg e.V. organized its first meeting to get to know each other and start making plans

Fab City at the laut und luise 2024

Turning trash into music: On 16 June, we provided colorful sounds and technical gimmicks for the music pavilion in Planten un Blomen at the laut und luise children's music festival with our creative sound installation.

Workshop Introduction to LAUDS Factories

What is a LAUDS Factory supposed to look like? This question kept us busy on May 8 during an introductory workshop with representatives of the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg.

The Pop-Up Circular Hub Re-Opening

The re-opening of the Pop-Up Circular Hub took place on April 30, 2024. The event was characterized by new ideas and interesting conversations about the future of the circular economy in Hamburg. Read more about the program in this article.

Hardware-Support

3D printer broken? Fab City Hamburg e.V. is now helping non-commercial organizations with the maintenance and repair of maker machines

Fabulous St. Pauli wins ITEC Cares Award

A shining moment for Fabulous St. Pauli! The Fab Lab has won the ITEC Cares Award. This award honors the outstanding commitment to the community, especially the Lab's inspiring offers for children and young people over the past years!

AKTIONSTAG TECHNIK 2024

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of technology at the action day on February 23, 2024! Fab City Hamburg is bringing along the Fab City cargo bike with 3D printers. Be there and secure your ticket now for an event full of experimentation!

parameo - Parametric Build Assistant

parameo is a freely accessible online tool for generating parametric designs and production data for CNC machines and laser cutters. The project was initiated by René Watral and Fynn Schmid and funded by the Profi-Impuls program of the Hamburg Ministry of Economics and Innovation.

Pop-up Circular Hub

The platform for urban production and circular economy With exhibition, events, workshops and educational programs as part of the Jupiter Campus.

TOLOCAR

The TOLOCAR project sends mobile makerspaces to Ukraine to support, train and equip local communities.

Open Production

What is a microfactory? What is the OpenLab Starter Kit and how can it support decentralized manufacturing and promote local value creation? All this is explained in the following video.

Maker Faire Hannover 2023

We were at the Maker Faire Germany in Hannover to get to know the maker scene even better, to discover the latest trends and to network!

Fab City Awards 2023

The Fab City Awards 2023 are the first iteration of an International contest, organised by the Fab City Foundation, that recognises best practices from town, city, region, and nation members of the Fab City Network that are working to advance the Fab City vision of sustainable, regenerative and self-sufficient living through local production and global connections.

OpenLab MedTec at the German Armed Forces Hospital Hamburg

Innovative solutions emerge precisely where challenges arise. Learn more about the groundbreaking OpenLab MedTec at Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg and its vision to solve on-site medical technology issues.

The Schülerforschungszentrum joins the Fab City Hamburg

Ready for exciting experiments, creative ideas and the STEM adventure? Dive into a world full of curiosity and discoveries.

The bergisch.circular project

The bergisch.circular project is dedicated to the question of how circular economy can be implemented at the municipal level, particularly in the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid in the Bergisches Städtedreieck. The aim of the project is to develop ideas and structures that will enable these municipalities to integrate the concept of the circular economy into their administrative processes and actively promote it. In July 2023, the project visited the Fab City Hamburg Association at Fab City Haus!

Circular City Challenge 2023

Together with various players in the circular economy, Fab City Hamburg is also looking for innovative solutions for the urban transformation to a circular economy as part of the Circular City Challenge 2023.

Augsburg has become second German Fab City!

A warm welcome to the Fab City Network and congratulations to the city of Augsburg, which became the second German member of the Fab City Network at the 19th International #FAB23Bhutan Fest, next to Oulu, Finland and Córdoba, Argentina.

Insel e.V. "Environmental education meets inclusion".

Our association member Insel e.V. receives funding from "Aktion Mensch" for the inclusive recycling workshop.

Parkour for a better world

On June 24th 2023 Fab City was at the Altonale for a visit! We were invited to present the association and the network at the "Parkour for a better world".

The mayor of Hamburg visits the Homecoming Homeport Festival 2023

On 22th June 2023 the Prototyping & Tech Festival took place in the port of Hamburg. The focus topics this year were decarbonization and circular economy, the potential of mobile sensor technology for the Hanseatic City and Port as well as digital manufacturing methods. We are happy to announce that also Fab City organizations were on site like OpenLab Port and OpenLab Mobile.

Cultural self-determination in connection with climate protection

The KulturEnergieBunker Altona (KEBAP) project is a living neighborhood development "from below". Since 2011, citizens have been involved in the transformation of Hamburg's third-largest high-rise bunker into a sustainable energy center and a place for lively and multi-layered district culture. Now KEPAB e.V. has become a member of the Fab City Association, which we are very pleased about.

With more data to less textile waste

How can we make textiles more local and circular in Hamburg was the initial question for Circular Design Deep Dive 2 on March 3 at Fab City Haus.

Open Lab Mobile ready for depature

Under the motto Digital Manufacturing Everywhere, the partners of OpenLab Mobile ceremoniously opened the mobile production workshop for Hamburg and the metropolitan region on the grounds of Helmut Schmidt University on March 28, 2023.

Interfacer Series Podcast E02

The second episode of the Fab City Hamburg podcast features Jaromil from Dyne.org as a guest. We have transcribed the podcast for you.

ZERO CARBON ROADSHOW

The Zero Carbon Roadshow is one of the outreach activities of the INTERFACER project: to build a digital infrastructure for Fab Cities, an initial network of social relationships based on trust and personal contacts is needed. On the other hand, the project aims to communicate the underlying values of the Fab City and INTERFACER's core product, the Fab City Operating System (OS), to a wide audience. Cycling is nowadays strongly synonymous with sustainable lifestyles (new forms of consumption and travel, environmental awareness, work-life balance...).

Fab City Manifest

On July 11, 2018, Paris, Toulouse, Barcelona, Helsinki, Belo Horizonte, Groningen, Brest, the Fab Foundation, the global Fab City Initiative, and private and public stakeholders signed the Fab City Manifesto at the first Fab City Summit in Paris. The 10 principles were developed in collaboration with members of the global Fab City Initiative

What are OERs?

In digital times, educational materials develop their full impact when they are free, copyable and changeable. Under the abbreviation OER (Open Educational Resources), a movement has therefore also been developing in Germany for several years that likes to share knowledge and make it available on the Internet. Axel Dürkop is an expert on OERs and conducts research at the Technical University of Hamburg. He visited us at our Fab Friday event.

Open Toolchain Foundation

"Open source ecosystems for better engineering" - The Open Toolchain Foundation aims to democratize technology and make it accessible to anyone who wants to develop, manufacture products or share designs.

Fab City Full Stack

How does the transformation of cities into Fab Cities succeed? The full-stack model identifies and connects six levels from networked neighborhoods to the network of cities to create a new kind of ecosystem for local production.

Bali Fab Fest 2022

The world's largest digital manufacturing event and we were there as the Fab City Hamburg team. Bali Fab Fest 2022 was a merger of the 17th Fab Lab Conference and the 7th Fab City Summit, with the goal of accelerating Bali's transition to a regenerative economy as the first 'Fab Island' that produces everything it consumes.

Interfacer Series Podcast Ep.1

The new Fab City Hamburg podcast had Tomas Diez, the founder of Fab City, as a guest in its first episode.

Our new website is live

Welcome to our new website! After a very long development phase, there is now a lot of new content, interactive features and a new technical framework that can be reused by anyone.