EVENT
Roma Makers Night 2018: on Friday 12 October the Big Open Party returns!
On the occasion of Maker Faire Rome 2018, as every year, the Roman makers welcome artists, creatives, scientists and inventors from all over the world at Spazio Chirale in Garbatella. Admission is free and all enthusiasts of creativity and innovation are invited. 19:30, via Ignazio Persico, 32.
As every year, on the occasion of the first day of Maker Faire Europe, the Roman makers welcome the global maker community to the historic neighbourhood of Garbatella, home of the Capital’s first Fab Lab and of Spazio Chirale — atelier dedicated to the processes of Innovation and of all the Arts, Sciences, Technologies and Crafts of the 21st century.
The invitation is extended to all Romans, not only to those who will attend or visit the Maker Faire of Rome, which will take place from 12 to 14 October at the Fiera di Roma.
The appointment is at around 19:30 on Friday 12 October, at Spazio Chirale in via Ignazio Persico, 32.
As always, it will be a big party with music, pizza and beer, but it will also be a unique and unmissable opportunity to visit one of the largest Fab Labs in Europe, with dozens of machines and technologies for new digital fabrication.
The entire Spazio Chirale staff will be present, and it will be possible to see in action 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC milling machines, thermoforming machines, educational and industrial robots, printing and cutting plotters — and to visit the electronics prototyping lab, the e-textile lab, and the analog, digital and experimental visual-arts photography lab.
As part of the event there will also be the chance to meet and get to know those who are at the forefront of European Innovation projects targeting topics dear to maker culture.
From 19:30 to about 21:30, in fact, some absolutely unmissable talks will be held — both for the calibre of the speakers and for the topics covered.
Programme
19:15 – 19:30 Welcome of conference participants:
Make/Health/Care/Distributed.
Current European projects with/for the maker movement, between project promotion and engagement in healthcare and in research and innovation policies.
- 19:30 – 19:50 Promotion of emerging makers and designers with the Distributed Design Market Platform – DDMP project (Massimo Menichinelli – IAAC | Fab City Research Lab / Massimo Bianchini – Polifactory | Politecnico di Milano / Enrico Bassi – Opendot)
- 19:50 – 20:10 Mapping care from below, insights and considerations from the DSI4EU project (Serena Cangiano and Zoe Romano – WeMake / Massimo Menichinelli – IAAC | Fab City Research Lab)
- 20:10 – 20:30 Careables, a new category of bottom-up solutions for care MADE4YOU (Enrico Bassi – Opendot)
- 20:30 – 20:50 OpenMaker: lessons learned from collaborations between makers and manufacturing companies winning the call for ideas (Dario Marmo – LAMA)
- 20:50 – 21:10 Engaging citizens in the definition of research and innovation policies with Fab Labs, Living Labs and Science Museums, thanks to the SISCODE project (Massimo Menichinelli – IAAC | Fab City Research Lab)
21:10 – late night
- Informal networking meetings
- Music
- Beer
- Pizza
Admission is free; however, booking on Eventbrite is recommended.