After my first impressions, here is my slideshow I used on the first day of UrbanLabs. I was given the possibility to held a brief presentation before the participants in the group proposed some projects and then started to gather in order to talk about those projects.
We all were not sure about presentations, because we [...]

Tags: City, Community, Innovation, Open P2P Communities, Social Innovation, Spain

A week after UrbanLabs 08, I can finally write a post (the first of 3 posts) with my general impressions about it while I caught the flu!
It was an event that I’ve been waiting for since several months, and that by its nature it was very quickly between so many changes in language between [...]

Tags: City, Community, Innovation, Social Innovation, Spain, Technology

During the last six months I have been honoured to work as the administrator of the website, newsletter and blog of the Changing the Change conference, which will be held in Turin on 10th-11th-12th of July 2008:
http://www.changingthechange.org
This conference will be an international social event dedicated to study how design (and especially design research) could help [...]

Tags: Design Research, Internet, Italy, Sustainability, University

Thanks to Stefano Mizzella, we have an interview with Gianandrea Giacoma about Sci(bzaar)net (in Italian) that summarizes the event’s main themes and conclusions. The interview can be found on the last number of 7thfloor magazine and here on Scribd:

Tags: Internet, Italy, Science, University

A very short report from Sci(bzaar)net, one week later.
First of all, thanks to Gian for this opportunity offered me. Participating in the organization process (even if only online, building the event’s website) and at the event was an opportunity to learn a lot about how we can make room for an open dialogue between very [...]

Tags: Crowdfunding, Design Research, Institutions, Italy, Knowledge, Open Culture, Science, Technology, Web 2.0

And the second announcement refers to the UrbanLabs 08 event, which will be held on 9-10-11 October 2008 in the Citilab-Cornellà (Barcelona), a space designed to activate, promote and expand the creative and innovative capacity in technology entrepreneurs, companies, citizens of the information and knowledge society and knowledge.
The aim of the event is to think [...]

Tags: City, Enabler, Information Society, Institutions, Locality, Open P2P Communities, Social Innovation, Spain

I’m very happy to give you two important announcements…I will participate in two important events that are a mix of a conference and a more informal event like BarCamps: one will be held in Italy, and the other one in Spain. In this post I will talk about the first one.
I have been invited to [...]

Tags: Information Society, Italy, Open Culture, Open P2P Communities, Science