Local Machines, Local Models, Local Intelligence. Satellite Workshop OSHWA26, Berlin.
This workshop aims to collectively define a method for leveraging LLMs and local community knowledge to address the scalability of urban manufacturing. Join a satellite event ahead of the Open Hardware Summit 2026 and meet the LAUDS Factories team.
Open hardware communities are already building the factories of the future — local, accessible, community-driven production spaces at the intersection of making, sustainability, and urban life. But how do you know when your model works well enough to grow, and how do you share that knowledge without losing what makes it local?
This hands-on satellite session at TUB on Friday May 22nd, ahead of OHS 2026, brings together a small group of up to 20 practitioners to define what scalability actually means for open urban factories: what metrics matter, what data you already hold, what you're deciding blind, and what external knowledge — energy costs, material flows, funding cycles, local policy — exists but never quite reaches you.
We'll then sketch a method to work on all of this using language models on local infrastructure, not to generate generic strategies, but to connect your knowledge to your ecosystem and validate the models you build together. Your input feeds directly into an open catalogue of sustainability strategies for spaces like yours. We close with Aperò — drinks and snacks on us.
When
Friday 22nd May, 15:30 – 17:30
Where
Zentralbibliothek TU/UDK, Fasenenstraße 88, 10623 Berlin, room BIB012.
Registration
Fill the registration form to secure a spot
Facilitators
Serena Cangiano, Enrico Bassi (SUPSI)