Supporting Collaboration and Co-Creation in LAUDS Factories Environments

The maker movement is advancing a new form of human-centric and sustainable industrialization through distributed manufacturing. With access to open-source design software, digital fabrication technologies and innovation spaces like Makerspaces and Fablabs, a diverse range of urban stakeholders now actively engage in co-creation activities. This diversity highlights the important role of collaboration, as its quality directly influences project outcomes. However, traditional collaboration models are not suited to open, local and distributed urban manufacturing. To address this gap, we propose the Collaboration Capacity Maturity Model (C2M2), based on the maturity model approach, to evaluate and strengthen collaborative capabilities across these ecosystems. Developed through extensive literature review, C2M2 assesses collaboration across five key dimensions, each comprising specific sub-categories, integrating people, process, and object maturity. The model aims to improve the understanding of collaboration maturity, facilitate stakeholder engagement and improve project success among heterogeneous actors in emerging, innovation-driven, industrial contexts.