After many months of working, I’m really proud to announce the following workshops/speechs I will give this November. I was expecting more interest in Open Design and therefore in Open P2P Design by the end of this year, but I would have never thought so much (unfortunately I had to reject a couple of invitations)! [...]

Back from I Realize 09, we are still busy finishing the maps we developed there; meanwhile, you can watch the web tv of the event here where you can choose each single panel (or read a review of the event here, in Italian).
Here’s instead the video of the I Grow – Design panel I participated [...]

In this post I’d like to suggest you a Creative Commons-licensed reading, to announce you an event I’m going to participate to and start an open discussion about their common subject: what will probably be the future of Industrial Design and Manufacturing, and how we can draw a map of it?
First, I suggest you reading [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Maps, Open Design, Product Design

C.STEM 2008 explores a scenario where the designer ability of writing custom software becomes the tool to connect the potential of digital fabrication to an ever growing demand of mass customized goods. Infinite variations, generated by open projects/processes, enquire the role and creative thinking of post-industrial designers.
The event featured an exhibition and two days of [...]

Tags: Design, Fabbing, Generative system, Manufacturing

A quick announcement: Michel Bauwens, Belgian philosopher and Peer-to-Peer theorist, founder of the P2P Foundation, is going to be in Milan in these days and he’s going to give two lectures.
Here’s the first one:

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: [...]

Tags: Crisis, Economy, Peer-to-Peer, University

After the first post about UrbanLabs, and the second one with the slideshow I presented there, I’m going to talk now about the methodology we adopted within the groups, and how they self-organized.

01. Methodology: Open Space Technology
We adopted the Open Space Technology:

Open Space Technology (OST) offers a method to run meetings of [...]

Tags: City, Design Methodology, Innovation, Spain

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