Ars Longa (FR) is a structure of production, diffusion, mediation of experimental’s forms at crossroads of Art, Research and Society, both in public and private spaces. It favours innovative approaches and focuses on the educational or civic appropriation of projects. City is our playground. We explore and study the movements that make and transform the metabolism of the city. Regulators, operators or citizens, we accompany with them experiments that allow us to think by doing. To manufacture in town, to manufacture the city.

Center Rog is a creative hub where you can create anything you can think of, either by yourself or with the help of our skilled mentors. Discover nine production labs, where both traditional hand tools and the latest technologies are at your disposal. Visit Rog’s labs and Rog’s marketplace, take a look at our project studios and join our workshops.

Danish Design Center (DDC) (DK), as Denmark’s national design center, it is DDC’s mission to promote the use of design in business and industry, to help professionalise the design industry and to document, promote and brand Danish design in Denmark and abroad. In other words, the DDC aims to ensure the best possible meeting between the supply and demand sides in the design field. The DDC’s key approach in this encounter is systematic experimentation with design-based value creation in companies.

As Denmark’s national design centre, it is the DDC’s mission to promote the use of design in business and industry, to help professionalise the design industry and to document, promote and brand Danish design in Denmark and abroad. In other words, the DDC aims to ensure the best possible meeting between the supply and demand sides in the design field. The DDC’s key approach in this encounter is systematic experimentation with design-based value creation in companies.

Espacio Open (ES), a private non profit cultural association,  is a creative and social projects accelerator based in Bilbao. Its objectives are to influence the local social and economic scene in the city by boosting emerging cultural trends through the design and implementation of innovation-based projects, mixing art, design, technology and social issues, with both local and global perspective. The organisation manages 1.000 square meters of installations and 15 workers. The project moved in 2011 to the Bilbao Old Cookie Factory, in the Zorrozaurre island. As a Fab Lab/ Makerspace, Espacio Open organizes the  Maker Faire Bilbao since 2013, one of Europe’s oldest maker movement gatherings,  launches annual calls for artistic residencies and is a partner in several European projects linked to urban innovation, among other activities.

The Fab City Foundation champions the Fab City Global Initiative through pioneering projects in social innovation, urban research, and educational programs. Our Foundation fosters a network of forward-thinking cities, organizes the annual Fab City Summit with local partners, and leads strategic research on transformative urban models such as the Fab City Full Stack and the PITO to DIDO transition. The Master in Design for Distributed Innovation (MDDI) is a distributed learning program focused on the intersection of design, technology, ecosystems, and communities to improve interspecies wellbeing. It connects a global community of changemakers with local innovators to address complex challenges. The Fab City Challenges are a unique collaboration format that brings together regional and international innovation communities to propose meaningful outcomes that respond to urgent areas of intervention in cities and regions as drivers of change. The Full Stack Bootcamp is a comprehensive learning experience designed to empower Fab City participants with a deep understanding of the seven layers of the Fab City Full Stack (infrastructure, learning, innovation, communities, territories, bioregions, and planet). The annual Fab City Awards celebrate the world’s most innovative urban and rural solutions. In addition, Fab City Foundation participates in EU-funded projects and intergovernmental and other public/privately funded projects for research, technological implementation, community engagement, and methodological innovation. For participating in any of these initiatives, or for partnerships and collaborations, please reach out to [email protected].

FabLab Budapest (HU) is a ten years old open innovation centre, one of the first FabLab in Central-East Europe and until now the only member of the FabLab network in Hungary. We are located in the downtown of Budapest offering our services, access to our workshop, tools and knowledge for students, entrepreneurs and companies. We believe in bottom-up innovation and help others to create their first prototype. Our goal is the democratisation of digital manufacturing technologies to provide access to personal and collaborative invention and innovation using digital technologies. We have a strong cooperation with the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. In this cooperation we try to foster students of traditional craftsmanship to enter into the 21th Century with digital manufacturing technologies and start their own design brand. We provide a comprehensive education program on design thinking, digital manufacturing and DIY biology.

Global Innovation Gathering (DE) is a vibrant, diverse community of innovation hubs, makerspaces, hackerspaces and other grassroots innovation community spaces alongside individual innovators, makers, technologists and changemakers. GIG is pursuing a new vision for global cooperation based on equality, openness and sharing. We aim to enable more diversity in the production of technology and global innovation processes and support open and sustainable solutions developed by grassroots innovators.With solid roots in the global south, we share, collaborate and work together. GIG provides a platform for meaningful exchange by fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration between its members. GIG contributes to creating and using open, inclusive and sustainable technologies and meaningful connections between innovators, positively impacting the policies and frameworks for grassroots innovation. We support research in innovation and development, digital rights and technology ecosystem questions carried out by local experts and international teams.

Habibi.Works is an intercultural makerspace and FabLab situated in Katsikas, northwest Greece, over the road from Katsikas “hospitality centre” – a camp built to accommodate over 1000 refugees and asylum-seekers during the long periods entailed in awaiting decisions on their asylum applications. Founded in 2016 in a context of increasing precarity for people on the move, Habibi.Works is designed as a platform for education, empowerment, and community.

Individuals of all backgrounds can make use of Habibi.Works’ 13 working areas, benefiting from free access to tools, machines and guidance from team members experienced in each area. These areas include: metal, wood and bicycle repair workshops; a plastic upcycling lab; a MediaLab fitted with a 3D printer, lasercutter and computer lab; a garden feeding a community kitchen (where community meals are prepared on a daily basis); a ‘storytellers lab’ (including a recording studio fitted into a geodesic dome); a sewing atelier and creative atelier; a language learning hub (housed in our multilingual lending library); and a community-led gym/sports programme.

Since 2010, Happylab is Austria’s first Fab Lab. Learning from each other is an important point in the Happylab community. In addition to the physical meeting place provided for joint working and tinkering, a web-based forum and a wiki page also offer the opportunity to exchange experiences. The Happylab is an interdisciplinary entry point for all who have creative and/or technological project ideas. It is embedded within a framework of universities, business incubators, specialised SMEs, industries to provide the lab users with services when their idea grows beyond the scope of the lab.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a center for research, education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society and building it in the present. IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC hosts Fab Lab Barcelona, the first and most advanced digital production laboratory in EU.

JetClay is an open source Platform that explores the world of 3d printing and ceramics, relating the digital and the analog, tradition and technology, makers and ceramists. They develop their own tools to make unique pieces of ceramics at the crossroads among industrial design, architecture, interior design and sculpture.

Knowledge Center of Vestmannaeyjar (IS) in Iceland fosters innovation and economic diversity by actively supporting entrepreneurs and businesses. It operates Fab Lab Vestmannaeyjar, a digital workshop open to various groups. As a founding partner of 14 other Fab Labs in Iceland, it offers guidance for establishing similar spaces and hosts workshops. Through programs, it aids innovation from conception to startup. Associated with projects like Distributed Design and the Vestmannaeyjar Coastal Community, it connects various sectors for ocean awareness and economic development. Additionally, it conducts educational programs for students and offers Fab Academy courses.

Maker is a collaborative workshop and knowledge center, dedicated to transforming how ideas take shape. Rooted in design-by-collaboration, we empower professionals to share knowledge, learn new skills, and bring their visions to life. By offering hands-on training with tools and machinery, promoting circular design solutions, nurturing strategic business development, and hosting public events that inspire and connect, we strive to make it more accessible for everyone to shape a better tomorrow.

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Metalab (UA) is a City development laboratory that supports a socially equal, spatially comfortable, culturally rich, environmentally responsible, economically balanced city (environment). Our vision is to establish a makerspace in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, serving as a platform that fosters innovation in humanitarian aid, med tech, climate change response and economic development. With a unique technical prototyping platform, we aim to provide a space that is inclusive and empowering, fostering learning, creativity, and entrepreneurship for all. By creating a center for peer learning and knowledge sharing, we aim to facilitate collaboration and cultivate a supportive community. A place where the value of science, technology, and design can be added to Ukrainian products. By nurturing innovations and inventions, we aspire to contribute to the growth and success of Ukrainians.

Centre for Creativity, a business development platform for professionals working in the creative and cultural sectors, is run by the national Museum of Architecture and Design. We provide product and service development by promoting cooperation between creatives, enterprises, business sector and both the private and public sector as well as offering financial support, education for the development of entrepreneurial and specialised creative skills, the establishment of a partner network, sector integration, internationalisation and promotion of creative sector’s visibility abroad. The Centre is also a national contact point for The New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative and an EIT Culture & Creativity partner for the development of innovative projects in the CCS.

MAO is also the organiser of the oldest Biennial of Design (BIO), the oldest European design biennial, as well as the founder and coordinating entity of Future Architecture Platform.

Opendot (IT) OpenDot is a research and open innovation hub, a space dedicated to rapid prototyping and digital manufacturing, open and accessible to all. OpenDot, founded in Milan in 2014 by the design studio Dotdotdot, OpenDot generates changes that find in open source and technological know-how opportunities for growth in educational, design and production level.

OpenDot develops projects and research paths, training programmes and co-design processes involving all the stakeholders to create innovative solutions aimed at generating a positive social impact for people and the planet.

Opendot collaborates with Politecnico of Milan, DOMUS Academy, NABA (New Academy for Fine Arts) among other Universities. For 7 years it has been organizing the 6-months-lasting training Fab Academy, devoted to digital Fabrication and coordinated by MIT Media Lab.

P2P Lab (EL) works for the development and maintenance of a global knowledge commons, encompassing a global community of researchers, makers, artists, designers and others, that advocates and monitors models of peer production, peer governance and peer property in every field of human activity. Its wider network includes institutions and organisations from academia and civil society, active grassroots social movements and institutions working for the transition to a P2P-driven, commons future.

Pakhuis de Zwijger (NL) is a platform for urban development and the creative industry, located in a redeveloped warehouse in the city centre of Amsterdam. What started out as a ‘clubhouse for creatives’ seventeen years ago has now grown into a platform that organises cross-disciplinary discussions, workshops, festivals and more on a daily basis. Urging temporary urban issues with relevant stakeholders. Pakhuis de Zwijger informs, inspires, connects people, effectuates, monitors and reflects.

Polifactory (IT) is the makerspace-fablab of Politecnico di Milano, serving as a multidisciplinary research lab aimed at exploring the relationship between design and evolving models of production, distribution, and use within product-service systems, particularly in the context of digital transformation and the shift towards a circular economy. Polifactory conducts competitive research, consultancy, and public engagement initiatives in collaboration with companies and institutions involved in design-driven innovation, user-driven innovation, as well as open and circular innovation. Through its Talents in Residence program, Polifactory supports the pre-incubation of ideas developed by young talents from Politecnico di Milano.

The Polytechnic University of Lisbon (IPL) is a public higher education institution in the metropolitan area of Lisbon composed of eight specialized schools covering Arts, Communication, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, and Business. The 2019 Newsweek’s global list of maker schools includes IPL, the only Portuguese institution featured. This distinction highlights its role in educational innovation and crisis response through digital fabrication.

The Local IPL DDP activities are coordinated by Prof. André Rocha and his team at the Lisbon School of Education (ESElx). Since joining the Distributed Design Platform in 2018, the team has developed key initiatives, including three editions of Maker Faire Lisboa, participation in Make Something Week with Greenpeace and the Fab Foundation, an annual open call connecting emerging and established DDP creatives, and active engagement in global events such as the Creative Commons Global Summit.

Fablab Benfica, a digital fabrication laboratory at ESELx and the only Portuguese node in the Fab Academy network, supports these activities. The lab serves as a prototyping space and educational hub, supporting initiatives like fabschools.pt and the Postgraduate Course in Design of Interactive Products for Education, in which students learn to and develop interactive educational products ranging from digital applications to tangible objects.

re:publica  is one of the largest and most exciting conferences centered on digital culture, which explores how technology impacts society, politics, and everyday life. Originating in 2007, it has grown into one of Europe’s largest events of its kind, attracting a diverse audience of activists, scientists, hackers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, journalists, social media and marketing experts, and many others.  The festival features a wide range of activities, including lectures, workshops, a pop-up makerspace and panel discussions that cover topics like internet policy, digital rights, and future technologies. Held annually in Berlin, re:publica fosters a collaborative environment that fosters innovation and  creates synergies between net politics, online marketing, network technology, digital society, and (pop) culture.

SPLOT Institute (PL) inspires cross-disciplinary creative collaboration to address pressing social, environmental and economical challenges. We deliver schemes for young creators from diverse backgrounds using our own methodology, successfully applied in international projects such as SPLOT UA Residency (organized in collaboration with the US Department of State and the US Embassy Warsaw), Direction Earth/Space Creative Campus (for the European Space Agency) and ART+DESIGN+SCIENCE schemes (supported by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage).