Environmental challenges call for a rethinking of our consumption and production patterns. Technological development offers opportunities to transform manufacturing processes and contribute to generating positive impacts for our ecosystems. Based on these observations the ERPI laboratory, specialized in the management of technology, engineering and innovation, has committed in 2019 to the European project INEDIT (open INnovation Ecosystems for Do It Together process) GA No 869952.
The consortium of 14 partners (universities, SMEs, large groups, technology centers) proposes to evolve the do-it-yourself (DIY) approach characterizing FabLabs and the spirit of makers in particular by crossing it with the principles of the circular economy. The result is the “Do It Together” (DIT) approach applied in our case to the furniture sector. INEDIT proposes the co-creation and “social and open” production of sustainable furniture supported by an online platform, immersive devices and 4 demonstrators (Open Manufacturing Demonstration Facility) installed in Spain, France, Switzerland, Portugal. This European ecosystem of open innovation aims to support users and customers of SMEs in the design and manufacture of new personalized, sustainable and even “connected” products, based on their needs for use, and in the shortest possible time to market.