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FAB CITY Montréal

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What if Montréal was host land to the Fab City movement?

The Co-Design Process

Participatory     Illustration 1 Codesign Process     Profound     Illustration 2 Codesign Process     Creative     Illustration 3 Codesign Process     Achievable     Illustration 4 Codesign Process     Reproductible

The phases of de Fab City Montréal's codesign process
The phases of de Fab City Montréal's codesign process (mobile version)

What if Montréal was host land to the Fab City movement?

Imagine Fab City Montréal is a design and engagement process inspired by best practices in social labs, living labs and codesign processes. This process will culminate in the world meeting of Fab Cities in 2021, which will bring together project leaders, experts and decision-makers from all regions of the world.

Illustration 1 Montreal Host Land of Fab City MovementIllustration 2 Montreal Host Land of Fab City Movement Illustration 3 Montreal Host Land of Fab City Movement

An amplification of Montréal’s dna

Known and activated in different parts of the world, the concept is still little known in Montréal. However, the metropolis is a fertile breeding ground for initiatives in line with sustainable development, resilience, and the home of one of the most important economic activities in the social economy and circular economy. The Montréal region is also the most prolific in Canada for the growth of Fab Labs.

Illustration 2 amplification of Montréal's dna

An iterative project adapted to the local reality

This Project is destined to be transformed by the mobilization of actors (citizens, organizations, companies, institutions, public administrations) who wish to participate in the worldwide Fab City movement.

PHASE 1 : Ideas and dreams
to capture existing ideas
and provoke new ideas
PHASE 2 – Prototypes and experiments

to try out ideas
and experience moments

PHASE 3 – Integration and proposals
to integrate ideas into
collaborative proposals
Synthesis and public sharing
from there, the team makes syntheses
and presents the proposals.

The process is inspired by a few sources :

  • collective intelligence practices and participatory processes (Art of Hosting, Theory U by Otto Scharmer)
  • design thinking, co-creation and service design approaches
  • ethnographic approaches (residences in the 27th region)