Digital Media Summer Institute proudly receives Massimo Menichinelli to the open talk "Platforms, networks, and impact of open, distributed and collaborative design and making processes", on July 16th, 2020.

About Digital Media Summer Institute

Digital Media Summer Institute is a virtual immersive 4-day event aimed at the collaborative development of research projects. 2020's theme is all about "Questioning and defining the (new) role(s) of computation on the mediation of Human Interactions". Each day starts with a talk open to the general public. Read more about the event and learn how to apply here.

About the talk "Platforms, networks, and impact of open, distributed and collaborative design and making processes"

The integration of open source and peer-to-peer systems with the design practice and research has generated many changes and opportunities for developing new kinds of projects. An important example in this direction can be found in the distributed networks of collaborative design and making, especially present in the Maker Movement and in Open Design projects. This presentation will explain to them, and especially how they are supported by digital platforms, how new networks are created from them, and how we can understand the impact of all these new actors and phenomena.

About the speaker

Massimo Menichinelli, Research Fellow at RMIT University, is a designer and researcher who works on open, collaborative, and co-design projects and the systems that enable them since 2005: Fab Labs, Maker movement, Open Design and collaborative design processes. Massimo has given lectures and workshops in various countries, developed Fab Labs, published several books, scientific articles and managing European projects.

About iNOVA Media Lab

iNOVA Media Lab brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersections of digital media arts, sciences and technologies. We envision transdisciplinary collaboration as an aesthetic experience and scientific inquiry.