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Modern Times: the future of work, knowledge and skills in the 4th industrial revolution

On the 24th of May, the Hub Florence organized the event “Modern Times: the future of work, knowledge and skills in the era of the fourth industrial revolution” where different aspects of Industry 4.0 and its social implication were discussed.

Artificial intelligence, big data, augmented reality, IoT and platforms are amongst the keywords of the fourth Industrial Revolution. The traditional production and consumption models are changing fast, pushed by technological innovations that connect people to unprecedented levels and scopes. Which are the competences, skills, knowledge and languages needed to govern this revolution 4.0? How do we boost systemic approaches to innovation? How do we combine technological and human progress in an inclusive and sustainable pattern?

We had the pleasure of having five professionals who transferred their points of view and that we try to summarize below:

Enrico Parsi, Director of Scuola Coop.

“I believe we shall distinguish what the future could be, what we can reasonably expect, and what we want the future to be. We always have a choice’.

 

Mauro Lombardi, Professor of Economics of Innovation

“These Modern Times necessarily entail interactions among multiple domains of knowledge, making interdisciplinarity and multi-disciplinarity a crucial ingredient for knowledge creation and for unpredictable learning outcomes”.

 

Zoe Romano, Co-founder of WeMake

“The ethics of Fablabs and the maker movement is increasingly influencing the production, and therefore the design of products and services. The possibility of interacting with modular and flexible objects, characterized by open protocols, is slowly taking ground in our society. This implies a growing attention to bottom-up innovation, which is based on principles of interdisciplinarity, horizontality and self-organization ”

 

Annibale D’Elia, City of Milan

“The public sector can play a disruptive role of innovation on cities and urban environments. Old industrial areas can become the jumble of new manufacturing initiatives, characterised by being local, decentralized, distributed, creating meaningful impacts both on educational and training models, as well as on stimulating innovation in local SMEs production models.

 

 Cosimo Savio, CEO of Savio Firmino

“We should find an Italian way to Industry 4.0, promoting the tailored adaptation of digital technologies to traditional production companies, by empowering workers and artisans to maintain their know-how in design and handcrafts, and by activating generational handover processes that can also be characterised by digital and organisational innovation”

 

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An exploratory study: Universities, Enterprises and Maker Communities in OD&M across Europe

We want to share with you our report that contains the results of an action-research developed in the context of the OD&M Project.

The main objective of this research was to analyze how and to what extent the emerging open design and manufacturing paradigm (OD&M) is currently becoming the ground of progressive convergence and synergy between Universities, enterprises and maker communities, and how this ‘knowledge triangle’ is collaborating towards the creation of effective and meaningful value chains of innovation.

The research started by investigating the key competences and skills that presently characterise the ‘maker profile’, in order to draw a general picture of how these are developed, in which contexts, and through which particular teaching and learning processes. The research explored existing experiences and discussed with Higher Education’s representatives the drivers, barriers and possible scenarios stemming from the introduction of making education within formal learning.

Then, the research involved professional makers and OD&M enterprises (i.e. enterprises that show strong and direct connections with the open design and manufacturing paradigm) in order to get an in depht understanding of how making-related values, skills and competences are contributing to shape and inform their businesses.

Lastly, the research explored the perceptions and opinions of ‘traditional’ companies regarding these topics, and discussed with them the potential risks and benefits that may emerge for them from the OD&M paradigm.

We can say that the different levels of maturity of the maker movement – and, more generally, of the open design and manufacturing paradigm – in the different countries, poses clear challenges in the implementation of this type of research; on the other hand, it reflects the reality of an emerging phenomenon and points to both the challenges of a common path, and the opportunities of building common experimentations at European level.

  1. Research Report – Integral version
  2. Research report – Reduced version
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OD&M Knowledge Alliance in Shanghai (16-20 October 2017)

A group of 19 OD&M consortium participants attended the “Shanghai Learning Mobility Action” between October 16th and 20th to learn how the situation in China is related to the Maker movement and compare it to the European context.

It was a very interesting mobility action in which the consortium experimented with Chinese culture and was able to learn from the Open approach that they have regarding technology.

During those days the group visited the Fablab Shanghai, the Makerspaces Mushroom Cloud Shanghai and XinChenJian Lab, the Sci-tech City with its institutes, universities and business innovation centres, the Hangzhou Dianzi University Information Engineering School, and in particular a number of labs such as FischerTechnik Machine Innovation Laboratory, Machine Vision Laboratory, CNC Central Laboratory and Mechatronics Laboratory, the XJTLU – Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, etc.

In the same way, the OD&M Alliance attended a conference organized by the Hackerspace Union of Hangzhou where some partners presented the project.  

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Jornada: El futuro de la educación STEAM: decodificamos el “ADN Maker”

El próximo 26 de octubre con motivo de la European Maker Week y en el marco del proyecto europeo OD&M (Open Design and Manufacturing), tendrá lugar la jornada El futuro de la educación STEAM: decodificamos el “ADN Maker”

Se trata de una jornada donde se debatirá sobre los rasgos característicos del perfil Maker y donde explorara la integración de dichas competencias en los diferentes niveles del sistema educativo. Contaremos con la participación de varios centros educativos y miembros de la comunidad maker que compartirán con nosotros sus opiniones y experiencias, así como su visión del movimiento maker.  Asimismo, tendremos la oportunidad de dialogar en torno a una mesa redonda y de visitar una exposición de proyectos de “estudiantes makers”.

Desde proyecto OP&M creemos que es posible que el “ADN Maker” se extienda y perdure en el tiempo transmitiendolo a futuras generaciones y por eso la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Deusto y Tecnalia, dos de los socios en este proyecto, queremos invitarte a participar a este evento.

El aforo es limitado. Confirmación de asistencia en: European Maker Week

 

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Robo Inspector Hackathon by Fundacja FabLab Łódź

Robo Inspector Hackathon, was the marathon robotics challenge , where the almost 40 young pasionate and students build a robots based on Arduino and Raspberry PI. The challenge based on closed tunel immitaiting a conditions of hard acces spece`s, for example, pipes, channell. During the maraton we build 9 robots! The special guest of Hackathon was Mitch Altman! Open source and open hardware global disseminator, co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspaces.

During this event (between 22 and 24th September) I made a great observation and prototype of education and cooperation formula.

But the most important facts were the little conversation with Mitch about global maker movement and engaging 3 new companies potentially open to next steps on impact in OD&M. I am collecting data in this sense: STMelectronics (module for arduino) The Things Lodz (open IoT community projcect) Gromar (e-learning company) and the At the start of event I said a few words about the basic idea od OD&M.

Grzegorz Belica; grzegorz.belica@fablablodz.org

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The technological culture (Spain)

Between the 3rd and the 7th of July CIFCYT (Latin-American Congress of Philosophy of Science and Technology) was held in Salamanca (Spain). With the main theme in this edition of “Scientific culture and Technological culture” more than 300 people attend to the event organized by the University of Salamanca.

Many researchers from different Latin-American countries participated in this congress in different areas related to philosophy. Raúl Tabarés from Tecnalia presented the paper titled “The technological culture in the maker movement”. In this contribution Raúl showed the potential of Makerspaces and DIY (Do It Yourself) philosophies to engage citizens with open technologies and how can innovation culture can be foster in society throughout the values of the maker culture. This approach is related with the axiological dimension of the Maker Movement and lies at the rationale of projects like OD&M.

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We show our project in Bilbao (Spain)

On the 28th of June, we exposed OD&M to the community of makers, manufacturers and other agents who attended the “OpenMaker” event organized by Tecnalia in Bilbao (Spain)

It was very interesting to see how more than 70 professionals from the community maker and manufacturers find common intents with open manufacturing as a common link.

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MakeFabHab Convent in Łodź (Poland)

On May 20 the FabHab of źódź organized a meeting, the MakeFabHab Convent, where 22 teams from FabLabs met to talk about the movement of creators in Poland.

Among the experts who gave this event were: Marcin Zaród (University of Warsaw), Agnieszka Koszowska (Foundation for Development of Information Society), Dawid Sokołowski (Sensible Business Network) and Bartosz Malinowski (We the crowd)

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Startup Olé (Spain)

On the 26 and 27 of April, representatives of Tecnalia, on behalf of OD&M Platform attended the Startup Olé faire in the University of Salamanca.

Startup Olé has been a unique event to drive entrepreneurship through effective collaboration among all the key players in the tech ecosystem.

A Startup fair has been held in the event where innovative startups had the opportunity to showcase their portfolio of product s and technologies.

The mission of Tecnalia’s representatives in the event was to disseminate the project and raise awareness on the Maker ecosystem and its importance for the manufacturing sector among all the key relevant players that attended the event.

Several face-to-face interviews with innovative startups where held in the event in order to disseminate and raise awareness on OD&M Platform project.

Very inspiring startups at Startup Olé were interested in OD&M Platform project. In the picture, GEKONAVSAT and Kyneo.eu working on the GNSS of the Things concept.

Kick-off the Startup Olé event on the 26th of April.