The Living Archive is an open access platform containing content (stories) stemming from (post-) industrial sites, collected locally with participatory heritage methods. Its purpose is to help communities imagine what can be broadly described as a new ‘critical heritage of making’, and enable the creation of inclusive and circular hubs (Fab City Hubs).

The content found within the Living Archive consists of many different types of data, which has been co-collected in a participatory manner. Stories include text, visual imagery, artistic work, audio recordings, oral histories, and beyond. These stories have been collected via the participatory heritage methodologies utilised and disseminated by the AHK and another partner project, Imagine IC, also in Amsterdam. Three (sometimes intersecting) main methods for collecting this content are used: Emotion Networking, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews, each of which have ‘how-to’ guides embedded within the general CENTRINNO Living Archive gitbook.

The Living Archive was developed between 2020-2022, and was launched in 2023.