With the industrial revolution, technology was introduced to society, creating significant economic benefits to regional and national economies. However, globalisation resulted in European cities losing a large volume of their manufacturing capacity, transitioning into a knowledge economy. As a consequence, manufacturing jobs have decreased and neglected industrial areas have fallen into decay. Decay of industrial heritage has a major imprint on European city's identities, but also is a source of opportunity. The result, industrial areas with high historical value for Europe being abandoned or exploited by extractive economic activities, with no connection to local knowledge, and with no generation of value at the local level. These are the issues that the EU funded CENTRINNO project aims to address within the following European cities: Amsterdam (the Netherlands); Barcelona (Spain); Blönduós (Iceland); Copenhagen (Denmark); Geneva (Switzerland); Milan (Italy); Paris (France); Talinn (Estonia); and Zagreb (Croatia).

The project explores how actors (such as craftsmen, vocationally trained professionals, entrepreneurs, makers, SME’s, Fab Labs, Food Labs and Makerspaces) can become key players in the cities’ supply of local goods. The project explores how to support them to take on a fundamental role in future cities, thus opposing disengagement and stagnation of local economies. The project uses a holistic method combining the Fab City Global Initiative approach to productive cities with Emotion Networking, life cycle assessment and spatially-specific material flow analyses. Through this holistic method, the project aims at bringing to the fore both the complex, layered histories of these sites as well as the cities' available resources in terms of urban landscape, materials, current day skills and practice and human capital. Based on this, CENTRINNO will test and assess innovative strategies, approaches and solutions for urban regeneration processes in nine European cities.

Programme(s):

• H2020-EU.3.5.: SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (Main programme)
• H2020-EU.3.5.6.: Cultural heritage

Topic(s):

• SC5-20-2019: Transforming historic urban areas and/or cultural landscapes into hubs of entrepreneurship and social and cultural integration

€ 8 523 267.51 (EU contribution: € 8 261 142.50)

Comune di Milano
Contact the project: https://centrinno.eu/contact/

• Institut D'arquitectura Avancada De Catalunya
• Departament D'educació- Generalitat De Catalunya
• Poblenou Urban District
• Stichting WAAG Society
• Stichting Pakhuis De Zwijger
• Stichting Hout- En Meubileringscollege
• Manifattura Digitale In Ex Ansaldo Rete Di Imprese
• Fab City Grand Paris
• Volumes
• Sony Europe Bv
• Kobenhavns Kommune
• Design Society Fond
• Onl'fait
• Au Fil Du Geste
• Ressources Urbaines-Cooperative Genevoise D'artistes Et D'acteurs Culturels
• Textilmiostoo Islands Og Pekkingarsetur A Blonduosi
• Haskoli Islands
• Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
• Tallinna Linn
• Fablab Udruga Za Pomicanje Digitalne Fabrikacije
• Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Arhitektonski Fakultet
• Stichting Metabolic Institute
• Stichting Amsterdamse Hogeschool Voor De Kunsten
• Europaiko Diktyo Dimiurgikon Komvon