Production / Community: how manufacturing value chains and communities shape each other (NEB Satellite)
Join FABRIX project online for the official NEB Satellite event "Production / Community: how manufacturing value chains and communities shape each other", to be held in two sessions during the New European Bauhaus Festival this June, 2026.
Sessions: Tues June 9 and Thurs June 11 from 16 to 17:15 CET
This satellite event in 2 online sessions will convene 4 Horizon Europe projects funded under the same call: FABRIX, LAUDS, YouRban and STARHAUS. We will explore how manufacturing value chains and communities shape each other. Each project brings a complementary lens: STARHAUS shows how personalised, consumer‑driven products foster inclusion; FABRIX mobilises local actors to create meaningful, place‑based products; LAUDS explores how production can become more Local, Accessible, Urban, Digital and Sustainable; and YouRban ties community of practice to creative material transformation. Together, they ask a practical question: how does a circular production system reframe a community, and how does an engaged community reshape a production system?
The two sessions are complementary and we hope you'll join us for both of them.
June 9: Production for community / Moderated by Fabrix project (Adrian Hill, OSMOS)
The session will focus on how the local infrastructure of production supports the engagement of a diverse community, from an established industry that is developing prototypes in a lab to a citizen who launches an insightful garment collection in a shared co-manufacturing space. Infrastructure can unite visions, welcome diversity and help users learn from each other, resulting in building social relationships for societal resilience and democracy.
The session will consist of brief project pitches followed by a moderated exchange on how manufacturing choices, resources, and infrastructure (e.g., FabLabs, local platforms, living labs) enable participation, talent development and a sense of belonging.
June 11: Community for production / Moderated by Starhaus project (Raluca Antonie, Babes-Bolyai University)
This session will focus on how a secure community that shares common dreams and values may feel freer and safer to explore, experiment and widen business model solutions beyond the one-size-fits-all industrial references. Guided by design-thinking or agile methodologies, engaged communities can transform local and circular production issues into space, scale, scope or social opportunities. This session will be a case‑led discussion on how communities connected to local value chains, shared resources and so forth provide conditions for innovation and circularity, and help local firms adopt new, potentially more successful models with attention to inclusion and affordability.
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