“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/
Participate to Reshape15 – Wearable Technology Competition
I was invited to be part of the Jury to evaluate the submissions for the Wearable Technology Competition together with Ronen Kadushin, Alessio Erioli, Anastasia Pistofidou, Elizabeth E. Fraguada, Niccolò Casas, Martìn Rodriguez Montoya. Read the brief and get ready to participate (submissions deadline 31st May 2015) Reshape focuses on the definition of this language, proposing a new challenge to makers and designers: RESHAPE15 | wearable technology competition. Proposals will focus on the possibilities of wearable technology without any design limitation. Once again Reshape leaves to designers freedom and responsibility of their own choices. Nonetheless, all submissions must reflect the mission of Reshape: merging ideas with fabrication processes and market viabilities. Fabrication strategies must be clear and reasonable, demonstrating a real control of the production process. The distributed network of fabrication of Reshape includes Fab Labs and Maker Space, all equipped with digital fabrication machines such as laser cutters, 3d printers, milling machines and robotic arms. Entries are required to rely on those machines as
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The Journal of Design Strategies on Alternative Fashion Systems
Pascale Gatzen and Otto von Busch are the Guest Editors of The Journal of Design Strategies Volume 7 titled Alternative Fashion Systems and containing the edited transcript of the presentation I gave at Parsons 3 years ago: “From Open Source Branding to Collaborative Clothing”. The following article is the letter from the editors, opening the Volume:
Il sistema dei Makers per Out of Fashion a WeMake
A meta’ gennaio (venerdi’ 16 e sabato 17) ospitiamo presso Wemake Makerspace un modulo di Out of Fashion, primo corso di formazione sulla cultura della moda consapevole, etica e innovativa. Oltre a esaminare l’ecosistema dei makers e il concetto di Brand open source sviluppato da Serpica Naro e continuato nel progetto Openwear, introdurro’ alle tecnologie di prototipazione rapida con un percorso teorico e pratico su lasercut e stampa 3d: Da una parte l’etica, dall’altra una nuova metodologia di lavoro a partire dalla tecnologia digitale come opportunità per il sistema della moda. Verrà affrontato il concetto di brand dai codici aperti e le potenzialità di un’evoluzione verso una nuova prospettiva del lavoro nella moda fondata sulla condivisione, la collaborazione e l’innovazione. Dal brand open source alla digital fabrication, passando per l’ecosistema di Makers e alcuni esempi di imprese creative con obiettivi e finalità fuori dagli schemi di start-up classica. Workshop pratici di prototipazione e produzione on demand sull’utilizzo della lasercut e dei comandi di
Shaping the Future of Digital Social Innovation in Europe
In 2013 I was invited by Nesta to join the Advisory Group to advise on a major new policy study on digital social innovation in Europe. The study has been looking at grassroots civic innovation enabled by the internet, and at how social innovation is being enabled by the “network effect” of the Internet and new open innovation models. The study has been run by Nesta, in partnership with the WAAG Society (NL), ESADE (SP), IRI (FR), and Future Everything (UK) and it has been exploring how emerging technologies in the digital economy can transform society by the mobilisation of collective action, enable a more collaborative economy, new ways of making, citizen participation, sustainability and social innovation. In February I’ll be in Brussels to discuss lessons from the 18-month research and the future of DSI in Europe.
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