Source: Five steps to get your fab city started with the cartography toolkit – Centrinno Cartography toolkit

Mapping an ecosystem and resources as a whole is similar to stakeholder mapping, and includes a wider range of inputs, and creates a more detailed picture and more wholistic understanding of a place. The Centrinno Cartography toolkit provides a structured introduction to how you might map a  local innovation ecosystem to support you to understand resources, ecologies and communities. And this will then help you identify potential resources and sources of investment that you had not previously thought of. 

The Centrinno toolkit was designed to create circular value chains. And it supports inclusive thinking, while innovation and entrepreneurial communities are two of the community types it talks about.  

The Centrinno Cartography toolkit has 5 steps

1. Understand your urban ecosystem 

2. Become a context detective 

3. Map your (future) circular community 

4. Inventory resources in your community 

5. Weave connections 

The toolkit helps you to get to know your place from two angles: 

• By mapping local context from a bird’s-eye view 

• Diving deep into the network of local stakeholders and  resources 

In the toolkit you will find information on each step, as well as links to: many helpful downloads, online Miro board templates, and case studies for each step. 

Some key things to consider when mapping

• Start broad. Don’t just think of people. Also think about the natural ecosystem, physical assets, and other things like networks and digital. 

• The toolkit thinks about 8 themes: Materials, Water, Biodiversity, Climate, Culture, Economic Inclusion, Society, Health and Wellbeing 

• When you add things together, think about what kinds of connected communities exist or could exist 

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Five steps to get your fab city started with the cartography toolkit