People pillar · SDG 4 & 10

People

Workshop themes and the empowerment of individuals and communities — from a first encounter with a tool to creative confidence you can measure. Everything we do with people and for people lives here.

Designing the Future Academy → Try the DFA app →
One value · Three readings

Empowering young people — everyone reads it in their own language

The same workshop, the same child building with their own hands — three reasons it matters.

A parent

My child can figure things out and create — a foundation for their future.

A company

Resourceful, creative future employees — competences you can’t memorise.

A community

Resilience and economic contribution — young people who stay and build.

And we measure the change: the Creative Confidence Index (CCI) tracks participants’ progress before and after workshops.
Two contexts · One tool

Wherever we work, we build the same capability

Urban context
Fab City Zagreb
Rural & remote
Slavonian plains · Lika & Gorski kotar · Adriatic (AGL → MMI)
Shared instrumentDesigning the Future Academy + app
CreativityCreative confidencePersonal empowermentFuture-readiness
Who we are here for

Families & schools

Workshops, festivals and STEM events across Croatia — find what’s happening near you.

Events nearby →
Twelve years of reach

Not just local — measured in numbers

30,000+children reached
100+schools visited
850+teachers & educators
Networks we belong to

From the SCOPE network to the global FabLab

International cooperation · People pillar

From local communities to a European network

European togetherness is not built in documents — it is built between people. Conferences, exchanges and partnerships take us from Brussels to the global FabLab network, and every time someone leaves and someone arrives, the knowledge stays on both sides. The map shows everywhere we’ve worked; drag the time slider to watch the network grow.

Networks live through people, not logos: we host visits, residencies and job shadowing from around the world, and our people travel to other labs just the same. Every arrival and departure is a dot on the map above.

How to read the time bar: drag the slider edges to narrow the period; the arrows step the whole selected range forward or back; double-click the bar to reset to all years.