ABSTRACT
Designing emergent futures for productive cities means enabling processes in which urbanisation can become restorative, regenerative and productive, in order to keep atoms at the city level and move bits around the planet. At the same time, traditional industry is starting to be disrupted by not only the climate crisis, but also the emergent production paradigm that is supported by advanced manufacturing technologies, new forms of synthetic intelligence, new material science or digitally connected systems. In order to think about future possibilities in our cities, it is necessary to look to the past. “This is why the future of cities depends on a profound transformation of the productive and economic model and digital manufacturing can play a fundamental role in providing the necessary capabilities, skills and technologies to reinvent our cities from new ecological and human perspectives”.
