Imagine turning a local library into a high-tech craft studio where anyone can go to fix clothes or make new things. It blends old-school hand-crafting skills with modern 3D printing and digital tools. The goal is to stop waste by teaching people how to create and repair items using a shared set of tools and guides.
Heritage crafts are disappearing and the fashion industry produces excessive waste. There is a lack of accessible, public infrastructure where citizens can learn to combine traditional skills with modern digital fabrication to create sustainable products.
A resource toolkit and open educational resources for modular makerspaces, along with digital fabrication techniques for heritage crafts.
If you are a sustainable clothing brand dealing with textile waste and the need for circular production — this project developed a resource toolkit and circular techniques that help transition to a green economy. It provides a blueprint for community-based repair and creation hubs.
If you are an EdTech provider dealing with a lack of practical, hands-on vocational training for heritage crafts — this project developed open educational resources and digital fabrication techniques. These can be integrated into learning platforms for creative skills.
If you are a city library manager dealing with declining visitor engagement — this project developed modular makerspace set-ups that transform libraries into hubs for circular knowledge. This attracts a new demographic of prosumers and creators.
Based on available project data, specific pricing or implementation costs are not provided.
The project focuses on modular, replicable set-ups for libraries and provides an exploitation guide to scale results to other Cultural and Creative Sectors.
The project specifically mentions the creation of open educational resources, suggesting an open-access approach to the developed materials.
The project runs from 2025-02-01 to 2028-01-31, indicating a three-year development and testing cycle.
They are designed as modular set-ups that act as hubs for circular knowledge and creation, democratizing access to innovation technologies within public infrastructures.
The consortium consists of 9 partners across 7 countries, heavily weighted toward non-profit and research entities (7 'Other' and 2 'Research' organizations). There is a notable absence of large industrial partners (0%), though 2 SMEs are involved. This suggests the project is driven by social innovation and public sector adoption rather than immediate commercial product development.
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