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Female Fab Lab

Female Fab Lab

There are three female students in the team that developed Design for Digital Schools, one of the major projects that will be presented at the Rome Maker Faire (Oct. 14-16). They are exactly half the team, a perfect, albeit unusual gender equality in a digital manufacturing lab.

 

The issue of the gender gap is of particular interest to the FMD, as Director General and founder Mirta Michilli points out, because it is “above all an issue of liberty.”

 

In one of her missions on the field, Cecilia Stajano, School Innovation Coordinator, who has always been an attentive observer of local issues, has looked into why Marzia, Gaia e Lavinia, unlike so many of their peers, love the Fab Lab.

 

Here are the interviews with Marzia e Gaia, while they are finishing their prototypes. And Mattia, too, because the male point of view is fundamental.

 

Ascolta Marzia: "siamo ancora poche, ma stiamo spargendo la voce"" su Spreaker.

 

Ascolta Gaia: "è bellissimo costruire un progetto e vedere che funziona"" su Spreaker.

 

Ascolta Mattia: "le ragazze hanno portato nuove idee"" su Spreaker.

 

Design for Digital Schools

by Mauro Del Santo, Mattia Bonavolontà, Lavinia Franceschini, Marzia Lupi, Gaia Stirpe and Matteo Viscogliosi

 

Il Fab Lab Innovation Gym presents its first collection of functional furniture for school labs, conceived to provide an answer to the needs of innovative didactics. The items have been studied to promote the integration of digital devices and experimental, practical activities. The furniture is created through digital manufacturing techniques that can be replicated in any Fab Lab.

 

The furniture may be distributed either ready for use or to be assembled and custom-tailored by the students.

 

The Fab Lab proposes workshops for schools that own digital manufacturing devices to produce these furnishings autonomously.

 

 

The team at work.

 

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