Glossary

Trying to avoid confusion and misinterpretation of words!

Circular Economy	Circular Economy is a CENTRINNO Key Concept, that emphasises a transformative approach to resource management, promoting sustainability and reducing environmental impact
Community	Community is one of the main action areas identified in CENTRINNO defined as groups of people that may come together locally or globally and over a period of time form a community based on their interest or shared concerns. The project encourages inclusive communities of practice and facilitates the engagement of local stakeholders.
Emotion Networking	Emotion Networking is an exercise created by Reinwardt Academy, that provides insights into complicated interplays between emotions, interests and different sorts of knowledge, and between items of heritage and people.
Fab City Full Stack framework	The Fab City Full Stack is a framework that helps cities and regions interpret the Fab City challenge and guides them to implement it in a multiscalar and ecosystemic approach.
Fab City Hubs	Fab City Hubs are open spaces for city making. They work as a physical interface to connect actors within a Fab City Prototype (usually a neighbourhood) and foster collaboration and exchange of skills and knowledge between local communities in a given territory. (FCH Toolkit GitBook)
Fab City and Fab City Hubs Network	The (EU) Fab City Hub Network refers to the group of nine European Pilot cities, members of the CENTRINNO consortium, that are currently testing and implementing the first innovative models of FCH in their local regions. Both networks contribute to consolidating the model of Fab City.
CENTRINNO Framework	The CENTRINNO Framework is a resource created during the CENTRINNO project to support partners in consolidating their interventions in local territories. It describes a methodological approach to neighbourhood regeneration composed of three action areas, five key concepts, and associated tools and platforms.
Heritage	Heritage is one of the CENTRINNO Key Concepts, defined as a notion, a label applied to items from the past, in the present, toward the future.
Key Concepts and concept owners	The CENTRINNO Framework defines five key concepts which are Circular Economy, Heritage, Innovation Spaces, Learning Ecosystems and Social Inclusion. For each concept, one organisation partner was responsible to define and operationalise the concept through the design and testing of tools and strategies, during the project. Those organisation partners are called ``concept owners”.
Infrastructure	Infrastructure is one of the main action areas identified in CENTRINNO focusing on the means and local capacities to achieve transformations towards regenerative neighbourhoods and development of Fab City Hubs.
Innovation Spaces	Innovation Spaces is one of the CENTRINNO Key Concepts, framing physical and hybrid spaces in which innovative productive activities are experimented with from the bottom-up, based on collaboration between different stakeholders and a democratic access to technology and knowledge.
Learning Ecosystems	Learning Ecosystems is one of the CENTRINNO Key Concepts, previously entitled Vocation Training. This Key Concept looks after the importance of learning in regenerative communities and Fab City Hubs by designing training programs to acquire practical skills and a “maker” mindset. Focusing on vocational students, adult professionals and citizens, the overarching goal is to effectively address skills, environmental and knowledge issues.
Maker and craft cultures	CENTRINNO project is led by partners who value the maker and craft cultures, as community of people who design, make, and unmake, share in an open-source way about fabrication processes, questioning the role of art and technology in the current societal transformations.
(urban) Material flow diagrams	Material Flow Analysis (MFA) is a method to quantify the inputs and outputs of physical or non-physical resources (energy, materials, goods) that flow through a predefined system (here - a city). MFAs are used to understand a city's consumption of different types of materials from a higher level, as well as the types of waste it is generating.
Micro-Mission	Micro-Mission is a term used in CENTRINNO as part of the experimentation with the nine pilots’ cities as a unit of action regarding each of the five CENTRINNO key concepts. Pilots organized three sprints during the project with dedicated micro-missions for each concept according to their local context.
Neighbourhood	A neighbourhood is generally defined as a geographical area within a city, typically characterised by shared physical proximity, social interactions, and a sense of local identity among its residents. It is a fundamental building block of urban and suburban environments, encompassing a cluster of residences, businesses, public spaces, and community amenities. As intermediate scales between domestic places and the city, they are looked in CENTRINNO as appropriate playgrounds for sharing, synergizing, and experimenting with change.
Organisational practices	Organisational practices were defined in CENTRINNO as skills, competences, and processes necessary for supporting the development of regenerative neighbourhood processes on the long-term.
Platforms	Tools developed during the project supporting pilots in implementing context-driven micro missions for each of the key concept. It counts digital platforms (the CENTRINNO Cartography, the Living Archive, the Fab City Hubs toolkit), an elaborated approach (CENTRINNO School) and the Network.
Pilots (Pilot teams)	CENTRINNO run an experimentation with nine pilot cities and associate pilot teams taking part in the different micro-mission on the project.
PITO-DIDO	“Product In Trash Out towards Data In Data Out” is a terminology used by Fab City to emphasize locally-circular economies that foster data rather than product exchanges.
Post-industrial cities	Post-Industrial cities refer to the cities that are being regenerated after industrial uses of their lands.
Research Diary	Research Diary in this document refer to an essay written by concept owner to situate, illustrate and reflect on their research during the project.
Social Inclusion	Social Inclusion is one of the five Key concepts of CENTRINNO, addressing the dimension of inclusivity in the process of neighbourhood transformations.
(Industrial) Site Area	Buildings or locations in cities that have once been dominated by industrial functions. They can include abandoned brownfields or derelict infrastructure, as well as areas that have found new functions and uses for industrial heritage buildings. Such sites are present in current neighbourhoods in or outside cities.
Territory - Place	Those two words are used in the book to refer to the studied areas (site area, neighbourhood, cities, bioregions) as geographical spaces qualified by natural and cultural particularities and potentially by administrative perimeter defined by their own national context.
Toolkit/Tools	A carefully curated selection of tools designed to meet specific needs. Each tool is described in terms of its potential purposes and/or outcomes and how it contributes to an overall objective. Depending on the context, different combinations of tools can be used to achieve specific goals. It is important to specify that in this context the term "Tool" is a general concept encompassing methods, workshops, digital platforms, various event formats, and school programs, best practice activities and event formats that can be replicated and adapted by others.
Urban ecosystems	In CENTRINNO, industrial and urban ecosystems are understood as complex and interconnected systems that embrace people and their communities, ecological systems, as well as industrial systems. Industrial and Urban Ecology are field of research that observe the metabolism of such ecosystems.
Vision	Vision is one of the main action areas identified in CENTRINNO focusing on defining the common grounds and envisioning the futures of the investigated area within the community. Mapping is one of the shared activities that is recommended by CENTRINNO partners to engage in regenerative processes in the early stage.