Foundries of the Future
Cities of Making, “explores the future of urban based manufacturing in European cities in terms of technology, resources, place and application.”
Cities of Making, “explores the future of urban based manufacturing in European cities in terms of technology, resources, place and application.”
In the framework of francophone cooperation initiatives within the Fab City collective, via the bilateral cooperation program Wallonia-Québec of the Ministry of International Relations, Annie Ferlatte, ecodesigner at Communautique, and Pierre-Laurent Salin de L'Étoile, connector of Ouishare, realize a stay with representatives of the Fab City movement in Liège and Brussels, in February 2020.
Raquel Peñalosa, President of Communautique and Fab City Montréal Ambassador, along with Tomàs Diez of the Fab City Collective, was invited to present the Fab City Montréal codesign process at the Fab City Sorocaba Summit in Brazil, inviting to participate in Montréal events and ensuring a network of Fab Cities of the Americas (September 24-28, 2019).
As part of the RDV Techno (5@7) at the Desjardins Lab, Communautique and Percolab cooperative facilitated a workshop to feed the Fab City Montréal approach, and to gather small and big ideas to engage Montréal in the movement.