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Makers at World Wide RomeI’m in Rome at a gathering of makers, organized to promote how Italy can develop and contributeto the maker movement. Chris Anderson and Massimo Banzi presented this morning, and I’ll be upin the afternoon. Riccardo Luna is the host and conference organizer of World Wide Rome – theMakers Edition. The conference is held at the beautiful Acquario Romano.

Anderson talked about the primacy of design in Italian culture and that expertise could be the focusfor understanding a new world in which we are all designers.

Banzi, who is probably better known in the US than in Italy, talked about the development ofArduino at the Institute of Interactive Design at Ivrea. The development of Arduino arises from hisinterest in building a platform for experimentation in interaction design.

Leandro Agro gave an interesting talk about how design is no longer about the shape of objects butabout the behaviors of connected objects.

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Posted by Dale Dougherty | Friday March 9th, 2012 3:59 AM

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Later, I will give my talk, “Leading and Following the Maker Movement.” There are times in historywhen there’s a creative explosion – emerging tools and knowledge provide new opportunities for allforms of expression, which constitute personal and social transformation. This is what theRenaissance represents in history. What if we are in the midst of a similar transformation by newtools and new ideas and a growing number of participants? What if we can find the elements of arenaissance in our own day and age?

There is work underway to develop a Maker Faire in Florence, which is an amazing cultural contextto showcase the makers of this emerging world.

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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 soispirational.This gave us some hope that the Italian society can finally change and startlooking for the real, bottom up, innovation that can change our country aswell 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 eventItaly has to solve structural and credit-related problems that are essentialto make our economics grow so I think it’s time to focus on a practical wayto solve those issues which are really stopping Italy.

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Giovanni Re on March 12th, 2012 at 12:06 am said: