What does "urban production" mean for metropolitan regions?
Client
University of Birmingham (UK), INTERREG EUROPEProject period
March 2017 — November 2020Services
Global MappingWorking method
Interviews, Case Studies, Heat MapsProduct
Global Policy ReportOur expertise
Creative IndustriesPartner
Birmingham City UniversityLink
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Global Report
Global Review Report “Urban Manufacturing”
Is manufacturing returning to the city or is it being reinvented in our cities? With the Global Review Report “Urban Manufacturing”, Multiplicities is facilitating the City of Birmingham (UK) in joint cooperation with the University of Birmingham on the application, the formulation and rolling out of “Urban Manufacturing”. The report aims at providing three key means to support policy makers in Europe:
Firstly, the report explains and defines new forms of value generation and its configurative patterns as such.
Secondly, the report presents general as well as case specific empirical evidence for processes and practices of urban manufacturing, pointing to collaboratively generated ideas, prototypes, goods as well as services.
Thirdly, we conclude that by presenting policy recommendations to stabilize temporary bottom-up and collaborative initiatives and by matching various interest groups and their tools to orchestrate prototyping patterns in urban context anew.
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