14.30-15.30

Bruce Sterling, Author and journalist (USA) e Jasmina Tešanovic, Activist and writer (Serbia) | SLIDES

Three years ago, a unique residency was created in the city of Turin in Italy. “Casa Jasmina” was a joint project of the Torino Fab Lab, the Arduino open-source electronics network, and the Toolbox Co-Working design office-space. These offbeat Italian enterprises all share space in a formerly derelict FIAT factory, so they decided they needed to create a guest house that reflected their own values. That was when Bruce Sterling, science fiction novelist and former Art Center “Visionary in Residence”, offered his alleged help. “Casa Jasmina” is named after Jasmina Tešanović, Bruce’s wife, and the driving force behind this project. Using open-source software and FabLab technologies such as routers, laser-cutters, 3Dprinters and Arduino control boards, Jasmina and Bruce lofted out and furnished a design-fiction “house of the future” that includes two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, an automated garden, a media center, many Internet-of-Things gizmos and endless torrents of espresso and prosecco. Artists, curators and astronauts showed up as guests. And, since ”Casa Jasmina” is an emanation of “MakerCulture”, Bruce and Jasmina will explain how you can make one yourself.

15.45-17.15

Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal (Canada) | SLIDES

The landscape of scholarly publishing has silently, yet significantly, shifted since the 2nd World War. At the center of scholarly and scientific communication, researchers and their associations have tended to be replaced by large, commercial, international publishers. This shift has coincided with the mutation of publishing caused by computers and the Internet. The rise of Open Access has emerged as a response to these shifts: with digitization, marginal zero cost of copying and disseminating, the whole communication infrastructure could be revisited in depth. At the same time, this transformation has led to attempts from various actors to redefine and control the publishing sector to their advantages. in this regard, a number of terms have taken a strategic importance and their meaning are stakes in a struggle to create the optimal communication infrastructure for the kind of activity that knowledge creation is about. In this particular presentation, the terms “open access”, sustainability, and markets will be scrutinized, for example in official presentations, or in various reports presented to various bodies, especially at the European level.

08.30-10.00

Maria Chiara Pievatolo, University of Pisa (Italy) | SLIDES

“The media create the impression that science consists of a set of true beliefs. But networked science […] looks much more like the scientist’s view of science than the media’s view.”
David Weinberger, Too Big to Know, Basic Books, 2011, p.106.

In the age of the printing press, it was easy, however inaccurate, to depict science as a set of true beliefs. In fact, we could only see articles and books, but the process of their discussion and selection was concealed from our eyes. It was, therefore, easy to separate them from their context, and to understand them as products instead of as parts of an ongoing, unfinished conversation. In spite of the digital revolution, the current ‘industrialized science” emphasized such a trend, by adopting bibliometrics and “publish or perish” as research evaluation standards. This too close connection between (commercial) publishing and academic career is determining a crisis in science, which is affecting the very institution of anonymous peer review and of its accountability. Is there a way out? We shall explore a challenging proposal from India: moving the anonymity from the field of discussion to the field of “truth”, by anonymizing authors and de-anonymizing reviewers.

10.00-11.30

Daniele Trinchero, Politecnico of Turin (Italy)

The talk is about the experience done by the iXem Labs of Politecnico di Torino, where Wireless Communications are applied to increase environmental safety, to promote sustainable agriculture, to reduce energy wasting and to reduce cultural, economical and infrastructural digital divide, mainly in rural areas. Real Internet of Things implementations will be described.

11.00-12.30

Mario Calderini, Politecnico of Milan (Italy) | SLIDES

Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship are undergoing a complex transformation. This is not a universal phenomenon, i.e. this does not mean that all forms of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be subject to such transformation. Instead, part of it is evolving into a very interesting organizational hybrid (i.e. intentionally pursuing profit and measurable social impact objectives) , knowledge/technology-intensive and thus drifting from labour-intensive to capital-intensive entrepreneurial model. This new form of Social Venture is going to be a very interesting option for new inclusive growth policies and for a new generation of technology transfer and knowledge exploitation, more accountable to society.

14.30-16.00