Measure What Matters: DIY Toolkit
Since we’ve already mentioned kits to help citizens in getting involved in their neighbourhood, lets look at another one, the Measure What Matters: DIY Toolkit.
Tomorrow today streets
If you’re trying to imagine what a FabCity means, what it could look like, you could start by heading to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, to discover the Everyone. Everyday. initiative, led by the Participatory City Foundation. Here’s what that looks like:
Citizen science with the GROW observatory
At first glance, it might surprising for some to see a project like The GROW Observatory on a website for a community and event with the word “city” in its name. Actually, it’s a great fit in a number of ways.
Urban farming to the rescue
Great story from Chiang Mai, Thailand, where Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, a community architect who works on housing solutions, managed to get permission from the city to organise an urban farm.
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.”