Fab City Foundation

🌍🌱 Join the Conversation on Sustainability & Innovation! 🌱🌍 📅 When: Friday, February 7th, 2025 ⏰ Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM 📍 Where: Online via Zoom We're thrilled to host the PENCE Climate Roundtable: Innovating for a Sustainable Future: Exploring Biodesign and Circular Economy. ✨ What to Expect: 🔄 Biodesign for Sustainable Innovation: Learn how circular, waste-reducing solutions can benefit people and the planet. 🎓 Education for a Circular Economy: Discover ways to engage communities—especially youth—in hands-on, circular design learning. 🌎 Real-World Impact: Explore inspiring case studies from Latin America showcasing successful circular economy practices. 🚀 Featured Speaker: Giovanna Danies Turano, an expert in circular economy, will share actionable insights on how design and education can drive meaningful change. 💡 Let’s innovate together for a better planet! 👉 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/gyvGvt-X #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #Biodesign #ClimateAction #Innovation #Education #WasteReduction

Learn more about the Fab City Challenge X Shenzhen, organised by Lychee Lab and the Shenzhen International Foundation College in July-August 2024. This Fab City Challenge X pilot, ran simultaneously with the Fab City Challenge in Mexico, and brought together high school students, mentors, and accessibility experts in a collaborative learning experience. Participants tackled urban sustainability through innovative prototypes, including a Braille navigation system and a tactile compass, while fostering community-driven solutions for a more inclusive city. 💡 Check out the blog post on our website: https://lnkd.in/gce9BkBF

Join us on December 11th at 3pm for the next round of Design Lectures where Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar will be exploring the paradigm shift in design! 📐 Driven by her interest in ecological thinking, reflective practices and inter-relations as a systemic response to the environmental collapse, Delfina's critical practice examines material ethics of care and the necessary paradigm shift in design. 🌿 👉Learn with us: https://lnkd.in/ggNpTxc7

Last July, the Fab City Foundation, in collaboration with Ibero IDIT Puebla and the Fab Foundation, hosted the third annual Fab City Challenge, this year in Mexico. This inspiring event brought together over 40 innovators from 25+ countries to tackle 7 unique challenges across 6 regions of Mexico. 🇲🇽 For 10 days, participants worked alongside local hosts and communities to explore, ideate, prototype, test, and refine solutions to some of Mexico’s most pressing challenges, such as water scarcity and biodiversity loss. 🌱 This short film captures the essence of those 10 days—highlighting the experiences of international participants, local collaborators, and communities. It showcases the powerful impact of the Fab City Challenge: from empowering local communities and learning sustainable local practices to celebrating cultural diversity and engaging in global collaboration. 🌐 Filmed collaboratively with local filmmakers from each region, this documentary offers a distributed perspective on the challenges and solutions explored during the event. 🌎 Join us on this incredible journey to witness how innovation, culture, and collaboration come together to create lasting change. Watch the documentary here: https://lnkd.in/gnSkdt_e

We are back for the last round of diving into the Fab City Challenge in Mexico! 🇲🇽 We’re excited to share the final three challenges and the solutions created by local and global teams working together. 🤝 Collaborate and create: innovation entrepreneurship to empower neighborhoods! A unique rainwater harvesting solution helps conserve water through innovative herbal product initiatives — Read more here:https://lnkd.in/eSYQzyaZ 🔥 Saving the Fire God’s Sanctuary: Preserving Axolotl habitat in Xochimilco! Local and global teams joined forces to reinvent Mexico’s floating garden agriculture, protecting biodiversity and revitalizing indigenous practices for future generations and unique wildlife. Find out more here:https://lnkd.in/eCYpD2TR 🐝 Greening Communities: Bee conservation for equitable futures! Combining technology with active community participation, this project shows how degraded urban spaces can transform into thriving, resilient ecosystems. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eGUMujqz Thank you once again to all of the participants and hosts for making Fab City Challenge Mexico memorable! Stay tuned for next year’s Fab City Challenge! 🎉

🌱 Join us for a unique Design Lecture with Dr. Elizabeth Henaff! 🌿 🗓️ November 7th, 15:00 CET   📍 Youtube Streaming Dive into the fascinating world of microbial ecosystems and explore how our design decisions shape the invisible yet vital microbes around us. From architecture to urban planning, Dr. Hénaff will guide us through the intersection of biology and design helping us understand how the environmental microbiome influences everything from human health to urban landscapes. 🌍✨ Ready to challenge your understanding of design and biology? Don’t miss out! #DesignLecture #ElizabethHenaff #Biodesign #UrbanEcology #Microbiome #SustainableDesign #ArchitectureandBiology

🌎 Ready to tackle the climate crisis head-on? Join us at the PENCE Climate Roundtable for an inspiring day of action, ideas, and creative solutions!   Featuring speakers like Mikko Laak, Project Manager at Forum Virium Helsinki, leading inclusive, nature-based solutions, and Jessica Newfield from the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, empowering the next generation of climate leaders. From local heroes to EU changemakers, we’re uniting communities, policymakers, and creatives to power up the fight against climate change. 🌱 🔥 Don’t miss out—let’s build a greener future together! 🌿 📅  October 31st, 14:00 CET 📍 https://lnkd.in/gPmPasKA #ClimateAction #PENCERoundtable #EcoInnovation #GreenFuture #TogetherForThePlanet

🌟 Fab City Challenge Mexico 2024: Local Solutions for Global Impacts 🌎 This initiative transforms innovative ideas into impactful prototypes that address local challenges. Let’s dive deeper into two more projects from this year’s challenge: 🔍✨ 🌍✨ Crafting in the Jungle: Discover the Incredible Journey of Tseltal Indigenous Women in Chiapas! In one of Mexico's most impoverished regions, the Tseltal women of Yo’tan Te’ are breaking gender stereotypes and carving out a new future—literally! During the Fab Challenge México 2024, these 11 brave female carpenters teamed up with an international crew to learn cutting-edge tools like CNC machines and 3D printers, all while creating practical solutions for their community. 👉 Read more about it: https://lnkd.in/gcTc-nW4 🌆✨ Without the Barrio there is no Paradise: Transforming Cancun’s Most Stigmatized Neighborhood: In Villas Otoch Paraíso (VOP), a neighborhood plagued by overcrowding and crime, hope is on the rise. During the "Regenerating Neighborhood Perspectives" Fab City Challenge, local women, youth, and an international team came together to empower the community. From teaching youth 3D modeling to creating safe public spaces, this initiative is paving the way for positive change. 👉 Discover more here: https://lnkd.in/gYM84_Za Stay tuned for the next edition!

🌎✨ Fab City Challenge: Mexico's Local Solutions, Global Impact This initiative turns bold ideas into impactful prototypes to solve local solutions. Through workshops, tools, and frameworks, participants developed sustainable solutions, sharing knowledge and results along the way. Let's deep dive into some of the challenges from this year's Fab City Challenge in Mexico: 🏙🌿 BiodiverCities: Monterrey’s Eco Revolution Another challenge took place in Monterrey, where local makers and citizens joined forces to protect the region's rich biodiversity. Their creation—a mini museum—showcases conservation efforts and fosters eco-consciousness, with hopes of spreading biodiversity-friendly initiatives worldwide. 👉 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gaaSyjNB 🤖🌾 Technology Meets Tradition in Calpan Agriculture A groundbreaking project in Calpan, Puebla, blends ancestral farming techniques with modern tech to combat climate change. With AI tools and Sensor Boxes, the community is fighting water scarcity and boosting agricultural productivity for a more sustainable future. 👉 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gRgfrK9B 📢 Stay tuned as we continue to share more about the 7 different challenges in from our Fab City Challenge in Mexico!

Lit Liao from Litchee Lab, in collaboration with the Shenzhen International Foundation College, organized the first pilot of Fab City Challenge X, an independently organised localized Fab City Challenge with the support of Fab City Foundation and the Global Community. 💡 🌱 We are happy to share the amazing student projects from Shenzhen and see how the Challenge methodology works in regional educational contexts. 👉 Learn more about the Fab City Challenge X Shenzhen here: https://lnkd.in/gGp_xHVZ