open-design

Make it shareable – Bits of my talk at Interactivos 2015

  At the beginning of December 2015 I was in Madrid for “Objects in common” seminar session at Medialab Prado. Here’s the summary of my talk and below the slides: Open source projects are focused on involving a community of users and engaging them in different ways. It’s not only a matter of uploading a file, or some code. The process of sharing is a complex effort of internal and external communication: it’s about understanding the immaterial value that can be exchanged among the people participating but also the limits and obstacles you encounter on your path of growth. In the last 10 years, the debate around open source has been growing in unexpected areas of the socalled “creative industries”. From software, code and computer’s operating systems (like Linux), open source moved to content creation, knowledge, art, journalism, photography, music. Thanks to the power of the web and the accessibility of personal computers and mobile phones connected to it, it

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The Culture Dress – Experiments during Makers in Residence

“The Culture Dress” series is a collaboration between media artist Afroditi Psarra and architect Dafni Papadopoulou that aims to combine electronic handicrafts with parametric design and digital fabrication on an ongoing research on wearables. The project was developed during the Maker-In-Residence program at WeMake, Milan´s Makerspace that I’m curating. Dafni and Afroditi spent with us two weeks in our guest-room at the second floor of the makerspace. I’ve been following the work of Afroditi for a couple of years and it was great to have her with us, meet with Dafni and make our community know about their practise. Explore more pics and other documentation: wemake.cc/mir/  

Exchanging ideas on open fashion and tech at MeshCon: podcasts are online!

How to reap the benefits of participatory production in the textile industry was the topic of the first edition of MeshCon taking place in Berlin last October from 10 to 15, 2014: We are developing concepts and Free and Open Source technologies for fair and environment friendly production of garments and textiles at home and in the industry. MeshCon Berlin brings together industry representatives, fashion designers, pattern creators, knitters, textile manipulators, FOSS developers and DIY hardware makers. The event offers a place to exchange new ideas in personalized fashion and technologies in the garment production. I was invited to give a talk, but I couldn’t travel in those days. I suggest to listen to the recorded files in 13 podcasts of the event, and especially: Open Tools for Computational Craft Glitchaus Project: Between pixel art, textile design, and digital techniques with knitting machines Digital Patternmaking with Project Valentina on PCs

ItaliaDesign series visited Milan (and WeMake) last june

Italia Design is an undergraduate field school and research program offered by the School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. The most significant contribution to the field are interviews conducted with emergent and established players in the Italian design community. Each year, a new team builds on the previous year’s research. Gruppo Nove, the ninth group of senior design students to embark on this adventure together with Prof.Russell Taylor , came and visit me in May 2014  to discuss around design and what I do at Arduino and WeMake, the makerspace I recently founded in Milan. Here’s the result of that meeting and at this link you can find all the other interviews (don’t miss Giorgio Olivero, Enrico Bassi and Giulio Iacchetti videos!):  

Open Design e Open Brand, da Serpica Naro alla digital fabrication

A completare il percorso didattico del Master Relational Design, ogni mese sono previste talks online, in cui professionisti, operanti in diversi campi disciplinari, sono invitati a raccontare le proprie esperienze lavorative e a condividere la loro expertise con gli studenti. La talk che ho tenuto lo scorso 17 Giugno 2014 ha introdotto le esplorazioni del concetto di open design dalle sperimentazione avvenute con Serpica Naro a partire dal 2005, passando per il progetto europeo Openwear sino ad arrivare alle esperienza di costruzione del makerspace WeMake a Milano. Link utili: – Licenza Serpica Naro http://serpica.tumblr.com/Licenza http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals… http://www.digicult.it/it/digimag/iss… http://www.serpicanaro.com/research/r… – Licenza Openwear http://openwear.org/info/license http://issuu.com/openwear/docs/openwe… – Articoli http://www.chefuturo.it/2012/04/artig… http://www.chefuturo.it/2013/10/maker… http://www.chefuturo.it/2013/02/speri… http://www.chefuturo.it/2012/11/la-st… http://www.chefuturo.it/2012/06/il-de… http://www.digicult.it/it/digimag/iss… http://www.digicult.it/it/digimag/iss… Zoe Romano Laureata in filosofia e appassionata di tecnologia, ha partecipato alla creazione di iniziative di attivismo sociale sulla precarietà come San Precario e il suo anagramma Serpica Naro. Ha co-fondato il progetto pilota europeo di moda collaborativa Openwear.org attivo dal 2009 al 2012 e Wefab.it, una serie di eventi

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