Participatory tool for productive citizenship in a regional maker network

The various types of fab-labs and makerspaces distributed in the urban context can be recognised as an organism capable of optimizing resources, producing ideas and artefacts in a participatory culture, that is also a tool for citizen engagement and self-organisation. This contribution reports on a series of surveys aimed at identify-ing and evaluating the network of urban manufacturers and users across the maker culture in Italy’s Lazio region. These actors are inserted in a framework of public and private initiatives, and they cover a social role within the urban fabric. Based on the regional context of inquiry, the ongoing research proposes a new platform, which should become a tool for coordinating digital manufacturing resources, thus improv-ing their potential of acting as a diffused supply chain of services and products, stimulating social innovation, shared economies, and good practices of resilience.