The new FabLab Rome, a part of the Phyrtual Innovation Gym (see Facebook) will be inaugurated as part of the RomeCup 2014 – Excellence in Robotics in Rome. The appointment is for March 20 at 7:30 pm at the Rome Città Educativa di Roma (via del Quadraro 102).
The event is also the perfect opportunity to present the Innovation Gym Project that will be presented by Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and Professor of Technology Strategy at the University of Edinburgh. The project has been developed in collaboration with Roma Capitale, the support of the council for School, Infancy, Youth and Equal Opportunities and the patronage of the council for the Development of suburbs, infrastructures and Urban Maintenance.
Here are the first shots of the Fab Lab being set up: setting up the Laser Cutter.
The Voice Over blog presents a map of Italian Fab Labs (from Wired) and describes the new laboratory organized according to the indications of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms inside the Innovation Gym, a physical and virtual environment for experiential learning and the practice of innovation at 360 degrees: technological, social and individual
