About this Event
Fab Region Bergisches Städtedreieck, in collaboration with the Fab City Foundation, invites you to an on-site Fab Gathering focused on the future development of Fab Cities and Fab Regions within the context of the Fab City Full Stack and Fab City Hubs.
The gathering will bring together stakeholders from Fab Cities across Europe, as well as representatives of Fab Labs, creative hubs, and regional initiatives that are actively contributing to the Fab City movement. The session will provide a space to exchange experiences, discuss current practices, and explore how cities, regions, hubs, and local communities can work together within the Fab City framework.
The purpose of the gathering is to identify shared challenges, strategic priorities, and concrete opportunities for future collaboration.
As venue capacity is limited, registration is required to confirm attendance.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome & short introductory presentations
Info: - Welcome to FAB Region Bergisches Städtedreieck (Steffen Pabst, University of Wuppertal)
- Goals and vision of Fab Cities (Lucas Maragoni & Tomas Diez, Fab City Foundation)
- European dimensions of Fab Cities (Leonard Can Stratmann, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences – Institute for Work and Technology & TU Dortmund)
- Roadmaps of Innovation labs in the Fab Cities (Adriana Cabrera, CSCP & University of Nottingham)
- Policy recommendations – the Case of Fab City Hamburg (Sonja Buxbaum-Conradi & Victoria Wenzelmann, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg)
- Introduction of PLANETAI and Index 3.0 Impact (Lucas Maragoni & Tomas Diez, Fab City Foundation)
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Coffee break
🕑: 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Interactive World Café
Info: Topic 1 – Beyond the lab: Orchestrating territorial development through Fab City roadmaps (with Adriana Cabrera, CSCP & Oliver Francke, Bergische Gesellschaft)
Topic 2 – Impact measurement: Making Fab City impact visible (with Victoria Wenzelmann, Helmut Schmidt University & Vera Austrup, Wuppertal Institute)
Topic 3 – How do Fab Cities distinguish themselves from other initiatives – and do they? (with Leonard Can Stratmann, TU Dortmund & Juliane Palotz, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences – Institute for Work and Technology)
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch break and time to visit the PLANETAI exhibition
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
After lunch conversations
Info: 13.00 – 13.45: Short presentations of each World Café topic // 13.45 – 14.30: Future of the the network, collaboration and governance
🕑: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Transfer to the FAB Region Opening
Info: A walk (or tour by Schwebebahn, depending on the weather) through Wuppertal until we reach the FAB Region Opening evening event, starting at 4 pm with tour through the Gallery Walk at Utopiastadt Wuppertal (Mirker Str. 48, 42105 Wuppertal)
Event venue & nearby stays
Freiraum, Innovationslabor der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, Bärenstraße 11-13, Wuppertal, Germany
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.