Fab City Hamburg E.V.
Fab City Hamburg is a network of makerspaces, SMEs as well as public and educational institutions acting in the field of cosmo-local and circular value creation.
The goal is to transform Hamburg into a Fab City where everything that Hamburg consumes is produced in Hamburg and with this the promotion of science and research, the promotion of environmental protection, the promotion of education and vocational training and the promotion of art and culture.
Fab City Hamburg is diverse, professional, approachable and cross-disciplinary at the core and it embodies this through its urban presence. The Fab City Hamburg’s vision is "with open source and digital manufacturing, we are making the economy of city of the future circular and sustainable".
Resources and technology available to the hybrid teams
Picture an innovation playground spread across Hamburg, brimming with cutting-edge machine tools and the freedom to hack, solder, and print your way to new sustainable solutions. Fab City Hamburg is opening its physical and digital doors, offering a treasure trove of open-source tools, from 3D printers to CNC-mills. Real tasks to prototype, and local community members to guide, the setup's ripe for revolution. It's more than a workspace; it's a launchpad for sustainable making.
Imagine a city-wide lab network (you can have an overview here, Hamburg, dotted with innovation hubs each packed with digital fabrication tools—3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC-mills, some rigged with smart sensors ready to inform about their day and mesh their insights into a live, learning picture of how Hamburg makes and creates. Ready to join the resource revolution?
With Hamburg as its sprawling canvas, LAUDS Factory is all set to provide a sandbox of digital fabrication tools across various sites, each brimming with potential for innovation (you can have an overview of existing resources here. Supported by a crew of local experts, Fab City Hamburg is geared to prototype, test, and refine a LAUDS Factory.
Period for cooperation
Experiments may be implemented between October 2024 and September 2025. Fab City Hamburg is available to cooperate directly with the hybrid team from October 2024 to January 2025.
