a summary of the first main assumptions and findings of the EU H2020 research project about "DiDIY" (Digital DIY), presented at the Rome Maker Faire of 2015
Digital DIY: a social, cultural and economical phenomenonMarco Fioretti
a general introduction to the Digital DIY phenomenon, and how and why the DiDIY project intends to study it. Background and conference report at http://www.didiy.eu/blogs/didiy-fossa-2015-between-open-chairs-robots-and-worms
Digital DIY for self-sustainability of rural areasMarco Fioretti
This is a talk at the 2015 Conference on "Sustainability of Rural Areas in Practice", that synthesizes a paper of the same title written by me and Wouter Tebbens for the Digital DIY project. Details and links at http://mfioretti.com/2015/12/nitra-digital-diy-for-self-sustainability-of-rural-areas/
The Digital DIY phenomenon: challenge or opportunity for degrowth?Marco Fioretti
Digital Do-It-Yourself (DiDIY) is a set of DIY activities and mindsets made possible by the availability of low cost software, digital communication networks and digital fabrication devices. Today, the most popular examples of DiDIY are 3D printing and the “Makers Movement”. DiDIY, however, is a much bigger phenomenon, with potentially huge effects on the economy and the environment.
So far, the interaction between advocates of degrowth and communities like the one of Makers has been very limited and not void of reciprocal suspicion, if not hostility.
Practitioners of DiDIY seem to propose even more consumption of resources, that is the opposite of degrowth; in fact, it is hard to deny that many current examples of DiDIY only solve “first world problems”, producing even more hardly recyclable waste. DiDIY also needs, by definition, products and infrastructures, from microelectronics components to the Internet itself, that have a very big environmental footprint.
In spite of this, DiDIY can, if not become an deliberate “ally” of degrowth, give a strong contribution to mitigate some phenomenons, from waste to overconsumption, that degrowth rightly sees as serious problems. We argue that this should happen, and that much more mutual knowledge and support between the two communities are needed.
In our talk we first summarize the characteristics of DiDIY, highlighting those that seem an obstacle to degrowth. Next we present some key issues on which the degrowth and DiDIY movements may cooperate to achieve a critical mass. Finally, we mention some actions that should be implemented, at the regulatory and advocacy levels, to reach that critical mass.
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https://youtu.be/sP2ex1WrmEg
Digital DIY: a social, cultural and economical phenomenonMarco Fioretti
a general introduction to the Digital DIY phenomenon, and how and why the DiDIY project intends to study it. Background and conference report at http://www.didiy.eu/blogs/didiy-fossa-2015-between-open-chairs-robots-and-worms
Digital DIY for self-sustainability of rural areasMarco Fioretti
This is a talk at the 2015 Conference on "Sustainability of Rural Areas in Practice", that synthesizes a paper of the same title written by me and Wouter Tebbens for the Digital DIY project. Details and links at http://mfioretti.com/2015/12/nitra-digital-diy-for-self-sustainability-of-rural-areas/
The Digital DIY phenomenon: challenge or opportunity for degrowth?Marco Fioretti
Digital Do-It-Yourself (DiDIY) is a set of DIY activities and mindsets made possible by the availability of low cost software, digital communication networks and digital fabrication devices. Today, the most popular examples of DiDIY are 3D printing and the “Makers Movement”. DiDIY, however, is a much bigger phenomenon, with potentially huge effects on the economy and the environment.
So far, the interaction between advocates of degrowth and communities like the one of Makers has been very limited and not void of reciprocal suspicion, if not hostility.
Practitioners of DiDIY seem to propose even more consumption of resources, that is the opposite of degrowth; in fact, it is hard to deny that many current examples of DiDIY only solve “first world problems”, producing even more hardly recyclable waste. DiDIY also needs, by definition, products and infrastructures, from microelectronics components to the Internet itself, that have a very big environmental footprint.
In spite of this, DiDIY can, if not become an deliberate “ally” of degrowth, give a strong contribution to mitigate some phenomenons, from waste to overconsumption, that degrowth rightly sees as serious problems. We argue that this should happen, and that much more mutual knowledge and support between the two communities are needed.
In our talk we first summarize the characteristics of DiDIY, highlighting those that seem an obstacle to degrowth. Next we present some key issues on which the degrowth and DiDIY movements may cooperate to achieve a critical mass. Finally, we mention some actions that should be implemented, at the regulatory and advocacy levels, to reach that critical mass.
A real use case of Provenance tracking using BlockchainFabio Gatti
Here is the slides presented during IOT Intel Dev Fest III about the project aiming to track the Provenance of a good of marble or stone manifactured in the north Tuscany, Carrara area. The video is available at the following link:
https://youtu.be/sP2ex1WrmEg
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Presented on May 10, 2016 by Luca Mari at the International conference “IoTnow Everything but hype” (Milan Disruptive week) in the session “Overview of IoT key issues, opportunities and threats”.
Abstract:
Differently from the industrial automation epitomised in the Computer Integrated Manufacturing of the ’70s and ’80s, IoT is a human-centric technology, in which the widespread adoption of open source and hardware tools lowers the barriers to entry and blurs the roles, toward scenarios of extreme customisation made by prosumers operating in informal, dynamic communities. With some reflections on this perspective, from the data and experiences obtained in an ongoing European research project on the “Digital Do It Yourself” phenomenon.
Understanding the core elements and significance of digital products is essential for
newcomers. By comprehending the advantages and benefits they offer, such as
instant access and distribution, cost-effectiveness, infinite reproducibility,
environmental sustainability, enhanced accessibility, seamless updates and
improvements, and space efficiency, you can better navigate the digital landscape
and make informed decisions when developing, testing, and improving your own
digital products.
Made innovitaly - Not just the Dolce Vita - by David ButlerDavid Butler
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If you think that Italy has “only” beautiful pieces of art, wonderful and tasty food, sea and sun to offer, if you think that Italy is “…just Dolce Vita”, then this is the event for you; discover “Italy 2.0”, leave the era of Made in Italy and dive in the era of “Made Innov-Italy..not just Dolce Vita” the event organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce (CCIS) in cooperation with the Bocconi Alumni, which is thought for an international public of young and less young Swiss and international innovators doing business and having fun in the “Limmat Metropole”, eager to experience something new.
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Many of the concepts and answers mentioned there are further developed in many posts on my own blog https://stop.zona-m.net/
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https://mfioretti.com/2018/02/calicut-personal-clouds-to-replace-corporate-controlled-platforms/
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the link to the report is here: http://mfioretti.com/2011/11/trento-open-data-open-society-at-the-igf/
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Right now the only way to sell pi coins is by trading with a verified merchant.
What is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone verified by pi network team and allowed to barter pi coins for goods and services.
Since pi network is not doing any pre-sale The only way exchanges like binance/huobi or crypto whales can get pi is by buying from miners. And a merchant stands in between the exchanges and the miners.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant. I and my friends has traded more than 6000pi coins successfully
Tele-gram
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Telegram: @Pi_vendor_247
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If you are interested in selling your pi coins, i have a verified pi merchant, who buys pi coins and resell them to exchanges looking forward to hold till mainnet launch.
Because the core team has announced that pi network will not be doing any pre-sale. The only way exchanges like huobi, bitmart and hotbit can get pi is by buying from miners.
Now a merchant stands in between these exchanges and the miners. As a link to make transactions smooth. Because right now in the enclosed mainnet you can't sell pi coins your self. You need the help of a merchant,
i will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant below. 👇 I and my friends has traded more than 3000pi coins with him successfully.
@Pi_vendor_247
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Even tho Pi network is not listed on any exchange yet.
Buying/Selling or investing in pi network coins is highly possible through the help of vendors. You can buy from vendors[ buy directly from the pi network miners and resell it]. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal vendor.
@Pi_vendor_247
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The best way to sell your pi coins safely is trading with an exchange..but since pi is not launched in any exchange, and second option is through a VERIFIED pi merchant.
Who is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and pioneers and resell them to Investors looking forward to hold massive amounts before mainnet launch in 2026.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade pi coins with.
@Pi_vendor_247
2. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
What is Digital DIY?
● a social, NOT technical phenomenon, based on
– Much easier and cheaper production of all sorts
of“products”, including “unique” or «smart» ones
– accessibility of the related knowledge
● whose greatest «enemies» are NOT technical
limits, as much as legal, social and political barriers
3. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
Impacts of Digital DIY?
● DiDIY touches many sensitive areas,
from privacy and culture to responsibility,
safety and fairness
● Far-ranging consequences on rights,
responsibilities and opportunities of
individuals, organizations and society
4. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
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DiDIY: often, still searching for PURPOSE
«Hey, I
finally 3D
printed
something
useful!»
(and it's a
LOW-tech
spare part!)
5. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
...and still distant from people
#digitalDIYperchi ?#digitalDIYperchi ?
6. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
...and still distant from people (2)
● 3D print is a buzzword exploited by mainstream media
● But for the general public, DiDIY as a whole is still:
● even more remote than... Free/Open Source Software
● very far from being really known, or even perceived as
really relevant
7. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
DiDIY: MUCH more than 3D printing
and/or High Tech
The biggest, most relevant
impacts of DiDIY will come
from its arrival into «low-
tech» sectors and basic
needs of society:
Agriculture
Furniture
clothing
8. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
A 3D printer in every home?
● Probably a terrible idea. Above all: WHY? WHAT FOR?
Image: Marcello Casal Jr./Agência Brasil, from Wikipedia - CC By 2.5
● Whereas an pay-per-use
«Digital DIY center»:
– in every city block...
– properly supported and
regulated
● May have a HUGE impact
9. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
What about agriculture and farming?
Image: Marcello Casal Jr./Agência Brasil, from Wikipedia - CC By 2.5
● Tractors?
● Beehive monitors?
● Robots for:
– Farming
– Milking
– Making cheese
– ...
10. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
DiDIY in organization and work
● scarcely related to the skills of individuals
● promotes reliance on individual initiative and
Commons based peer production
● challenges traditional institutions and norms that
establish control
● changes workplace processes and structures
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Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
Digital DIY Education and Research
new teaching
and
learning
opportunities,
from
primary schools
to
universities
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Marco Fioretti
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Digital DIY and Creativity
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● impacts on individual creativity
● brings disruptive innovation on the whole
society
● makes possible stronger connections between
hands-on creative practices, networked people,
and shared, open design processes
13. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
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Digital DIY and Ethics
● “The ability to reproduce potentially anything MAY mean ‘radical
abundance’ but surely means radical dissolution”
● extends Pirate Bay-level “piracy”, or sharing, to the physical realm
● But, unlike music, physical objects can be directly, physically HARMFUL:
– “forget” weapons or viruses: think medical devices, furniture, car parts...
– raising whole new issues of ‘consumer’ safety and property rights
● Digital DIY forces societies to renegotiate general ethical norms, that is
what is “the right thing to do”
● Being prepared for this requires specific research
14. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
DiDIY project objectives
● understand the impacts of DiDIY on society
● foster a DiDIY-based, human-centric
development in Europe
● driven and shaped by social and cultural
strategies, not technology
● produce useful results for European teachers,
researchers and (primarily) policy-makers
15. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
From www.didiy.eu/blog
Digitally manufactured weapons:
can they be controlled?
16. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
From www.didiy.eu/blog (2)
Beyond "Right to
Repair":
the
Right to Keep Buying
17. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
From www.didiy.eu/blog (3)
Milan Makerspaces:
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18. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
From www.didiy.eu/blog (4)
DIY Flu?
Design-at-
home-
viruses?
19. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
From www.didiy.eu/blog (5)
«Reshaping
craftmen's work
through Digital
DIY»
Inside...
Auchan
20. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
From www.didiy.eu/blog (6)
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a fantastic
example of
Digital DIY
in
education»
21. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
DiDIY for artisans and SMEs
● Current insurance, consumer or environmental
rules may block DiDIY usage in SMEs
● It is necessary to:
– catalog and analyse the legal issues that could
hinder or help growth of DiDIY in European
companies
– distinguish between rules that are out of date and
– actual needs for new, positive regulation of DiDIY
Source https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/epractice/news/researchers-track-down-obstacles-digital-diy
22. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
Biourbanism and Digital DIY
● Biourbanism: «making the
places we inhabit worth
living thanks to sustainable,
small-scale and self-
organized actions»
Biourbanism could not
avoid DiDIY components and
practices, even if it wanted to!
Source: www.biourbanism.org/didiy-an-interview-with-marco-fioretti/
23. 2015/10/17 Maker Faire Rome CC BY-SA
Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
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your
«DiDIY cases»!
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> Resources
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Marco Fioretti
marco@freeknowledge.eu
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DiDIY
support and
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in
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