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I’m in Rome at a gathering of makers, organized to promote how Italy can develop and contribute
to the maker movement. Chris Anderson and Massimo Banzi presented this morning, and I’ll be up
in the afternoon. Riccardo Luna is the host and conference organizer of World Wide Rome – the TWITTER DAILY Email
Makers Edition. The conference is held at the beautiful Acquario Romano.
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Anderson talked about the primacy of design in Italian culture and that expertise could be the focus
for understanding a new world in which we are all designers. FLICKR pool SUBSCRIBE to Magazine
Banzi, who is probably better known in the US than in Italy, talked about the development of
Arduino at the Institute of Interactive Design at Ivrea. The development of Arduino arises from his
interest in building a platform for experimentation in interaction design.
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Leandro Agro gave an interesting talk about how design is no longer about the shape of objects but
about the behaviors of connected objects.
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2. MAKE | Makers at World Wide Rome 13/03/12 14:27
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meedabyte on March 11th, 2012 at 6:50 am said:
Dale,
has been amazing having you, Chris and Massimo on stage, all was so
ispirational.
This gave us some hope that the Italian society can finally change and start
looking for the real, bottom up, innovation that can change our country as
well as is doing with the whole world.
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Nishant on March 11th, 2012 at 7:38 am said:
Hello,
I really appreciated your intervent during WWRome, I was there too.
Besides the great tech and emotional vibes we shared during the event
Italy has to solve structural and credit-related problems that are essential
to make our economics grow so I think it’s time to focus on a practical way
to solve those issues which are really stopping Italy.
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Giovanni Re on March 12th, 2012 at 12:06 am said:
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