Distributed Acceleration program for the Fab Lab Network.

“In a new book, Designing Reality, Gershenfeld and his brothers Joel (a social policy and management professor) and Alan (a videogame executive) note that in the short run—the next decade—we’d see a Kinko’s-like situation, with local shops helping people make specialized objects. Twenty years out, fabbing could lead to customized goods with fabricators owned by neighbors, say. “Mass production may not disappear,” Alan tells me, “but it may no longer be the heartbeat of the economy.” Big firms might shift to selling designs and cool, raw materials.”

Clive Thompson for WIRED Wired Magazine

““Ikea owns a big property company and is now moving into residential development,” she says of Space10’s research. “We have a big opportunity to actually realize this project within the foreseeable future.” (Watch out WeWork). The studio’s fab city plan - a collaboration with Fab Lab Barcelona and Tomás Diez (one of the pioneers of the ‘fab lab’) - is also helping turn Poblenou, an area in Barcelona that’s home to a number of ‘makerspaces,’ into ‘the first fab city of the world’.”

Carla Cammilla Hjort for Forbes Space10 Director

“The Fab City Global Initiative shows how cities, working in concert with local communities and global business partners, can blueprint the next generation of nimble and reactive public service solutions; provide residents with the skillset to succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; attract business clusters to improve competitiveness and build urban resilience; and, in time, reduce environmental footprints. In short, it offers an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the movement that’s spearheading the shift to a circular economy. ”

Thomas Ermacora for the World Economic Forum Founder at Machines Room London