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Die NATO übernimmt die Führung in verschiedensten IT- und Kommunikationsprojekten, die meistens auch direkt ineinandergreifen. Dies begründet sich einerseits aus den wahrscheinlich gemeinsamen zukünftigen Einsätzen der Mitgliedstaaten - auch die EU-Nationen sind fast ausnahmslos in der NATO und andererseits aus der Tatsache, dass die NATO in diesem Bereich sehr früh Expertise aufbaute und in den Einsätzen eine technologische Vorreiterposition einnahm und Standards frühzeitig definierte. (Europäische Sicherheit & Technik / SWP)

The FabCity initiative aims at fostering the social resilience of urban areas by structuring networks of making and tinkering third-places such as fablabs, places that assess re-use of materials, craftsmen and urban agriculture for example. It has a strong political anchorage as it is taking a stand in the focus on terroirs (as the merge of territories and their cultures) and is unrolling actions in partnership with local public institutions. Considering the tension of the global economic competition relying on nomadic competencies (such as coding, design, and digital fabrication to name a few) and sedentary workers (such as craftsmen, urban agriculture, energy, and food and water management as examples) as modelled by Giraud (2015), FabCity proposes a point of contact between new competencies of these nomadic workers, and sedentary economies anchored within a territory. Parallely, we are witnessing an evolution of Design practices towards community building. The essence of Design as a mediation between practices is emerging again, alongside Beaux-Arts and Speculative developments of the discipline. This mediation is focusing on designing networks of significations, attachments, new traditions: terroirs. This practice distances itself from the usual artsy quality of Design, but rather is community-focused. The network proposition in FabCity, unfolded with a "Think Global, Act Local" strategy, is deeply anchored in its time. In being interested in communities rather than formal designs, its design space is widened and opens to Arts (Aerocene by Tomas Saraceno is a nice example), Engineering and Science. The FabCity is an open table, liberating interpretations over the notion of territory, that aims at being socially inclusive then and gather as many citizens as possible to "activate" them. FabCity acts like a car tuning club, but for territories' resilience. The emergence of the movement happens symmetrically between actor's initiatives within and the leverage that the global aspect brings - especially in ...