start by asking yourself if any of you
they contend a crafter did not do manga
maybe ok
good this is my grandma Elena is a
his home
I met met for the first time
time a black sewing machine but
he was a real crafter knit
he cooked excellent desserts of course
sew is the episode that aims to surface
in the mind of that time it was the
years in the early 90s I will have had 5 6
years and she was sewing this dress
from princess to my cousin and I loris
I really wanted to learn how to baz iata
sew but I was too small then
I could not elaborate, let’s say it is
once it is now I was old
right to learn she was gone
ori approached the sewing machine
in 2005 when I moved to
Milan to study fashion design at
polytechnic
but the real spark is popped into the
2009 when I moved to Vienna
for six months and I studied
at the university of applied arts
there every student could build one
ad hoc study plan for the project
that he had to carry on and could
access all the laboratories
of the metallurgy university
carpentry tailoring silk-screen printing
any open lab is that
It was just my first fab lab
once back in Milan he tried to
carry on this passion of I am
entered a little in the area
self-production of ethical fashion
open VAT number
I started to collaborate with different
atelier and in particular I like it
telling about the social cooperative
alice that has been working for over twenty years
in the female sections of the prisons of
Milan with tailoring workshops
I entered with them and I did
training and out and cooperated with the
stylist the realization of some
collections
some even already have interventions
let’s say a little bit of a maker we comb there but
in 2014
I started my collaboration at
maker space that we make necro space of
milano while he wrote fab lab are gods
spaces but also of the communities are gods
places where the machines are controlled
numeric as laser paper 3d printers
they come into contact with creativity
people are in fact people
the heart of these spaces they bring
knowledge and knowledge to share them
or the fuel a fuel that
allows the production of projects
really special
the real maker revolution was
to make the technologies
democratic we say that with
the inclusion
with the development and release above all
of open source projects was
possible digital fabrication with
digital fabrication we mean the fact
to have the technologies that come
used by people but not in
single way so not with the truth
purchase a 3d printer but
used by the community and in the
community there is a continuous exchange of
knowledge and knowledge then the
car does not stop only to do his
duty but can create new machines
as in this case this is a
project of barbarism mar
it is a circular knitting machine
completely self-produced and made
from the community of lakers face with
3d laser cutting machines and
arduino from the digital fabrication anti
cheat the fashion really step
short with claudia shoe
we have achieved one of the first
research in the textile sector developed
right inside a maker space e
we tried to make sense is the
which seemed to us more interesting
to do was to create a training module
then make or for the method that
we discovered and share it with the
others
the digital fashion training module
provides a non-academic approach
this thing means that in the moment in
which we go to teach software not
there is a mere frontal learning but
everyone is invited to work together
they learn how to use these
software are then we will get there in full
style peer education then education
among peers larkin by doing is another
technique
and we recover from the world of makers
we define what it means to learn by doing
the students once took them
technologies are put to the test and
they begin to discover by doing so
making the first prototypes the
operation of the machines if i
materials respond well
in short, learning by doing also means
make mistakes
so we set ourselves on learning
through the error the error is not bad
but it is a moment of growth a moment
of growth in order to improve the
own project and then tell it to
term understand if what we are
doing and will actually lead to
what we hoped for
in short, to the final product
the home software because we use
are two and are in skype inkscape is a
vector drawing software
great with really special plugins
for laser cut to a lot community
we have heard about it developed
first then the communities are
fundamental to these software for that
they allow continuous improvement
is an insertion of new and plugins
valentina project
valentina is the first open source case
for the design of the card templates
fashion one draws in fashion
parametric then using the
mathematical formulas and ge the very thing
important that runs on many
operating systems
here is an important thing to say in
merit valentina and that has also
this year very strong community then
when we tell it all
we always say to our students that
they must start collaborating with the
community collaborate with the community
it means first testing software
and understand if there are any bugs and in this
case communicate them to the programmers o
however to the community in general
also to other users it also means
translate it into various languages
they know through a platform
online also means creating gods
tutorials in such a way that other users
are able to learn how to use it
the important thing is that valentina does not
it is oriented to the final user but
community oriented
so it will not be a software suitable for
a company but certainly suitable for
different professions
taking a step back we have
presented digital division in 2015
at the rom maker faire and it was
counted 310 best projects from
start up italy and from there we have
started doing our experiments
we started as a form
basic training of 10 hours where i
students start working with skype
and to elaborate their prototypes with the
laser
the interesting thing in this friend
precisely and that in such a few hours
female students who come from different
scopes we say manage to achieve one
boss who then take home and can
wear or fake with the
different technologies that we
we have the meter space we have
then developed another form of training
pro information that lasts a lot more
in fact 90
allows to deepen the use of
two software inscape and valentina in
parallel in the realization of the
models ee provides a little development
different because the number of people
that participate in it and therefore greater is
possible to work on lippi but before
this we do a small session of
design thinking to get to one
division into own groups and each
group works on an ib concept
working on concepts is very important
because it allows then every single group
to do a market research understand
what are the best models for
carry forward the project and
so the very important thing too
that working in a group takes place one
exchange of knowledge between the different
people participating in the course these
are some examples of the items made
from the girls of the course
we have simple models with
obviously of the graphic elaborations
we had a group that really has
developed a lot on the part about
software inventing a series of garments
on 3d processing then passing from
kirigami to a snail created with for
fear then the thing really
interesting that every group has had
has had its own focus could
develop various themes also in
based on previous ones
previous information anyway
laurent professions I worked on gods
dresses that did not include seams
example therefore with interlocking holes a
I work with ropes and they have
worked on green ii of then knitted
pierce the fabric different types of
fabric to recreate some of the gods
images of this type then recreate
the world of knitting a thing that
I wanted to say with respect to these modules e
that anyone can learn to create gods
clothing of this type not
only stylists and fashion designers
in fact the real strength of this form e
that we had inside the gods
professionals that we come from the most
different worlds from building engineering
all the marketing expert from there
it was really an exchange of
knowledge and all have learned
really use these software
despite the diversity of the fields from
where they arrived they joined a group and
they managed to create a system of
own money to create pieces that
otherwise by individuals they would not have
could do though is that often not
we work only on textiles on
we have another research one
research is called digitally and one
of the only research in the field
digital knitwear of Italian fab labs
the claudia shoe was brought to us
It is developed with the strength of the
community of citizens and be a module
training that a search for the note
claudio scarpa is formed at the school of
very famous educator and designers
Italian minimalist that buzzes and one
graphics and the interesting thing is that it has
brought his dimensional research
in the world of knitwear e
of the meeting in general but the thing
really interesting and the
collaboration that he had with a
programmer and an expert
electronic inside the maker space
with them they managed to do the
king of a knitting machine
electronics
this allowed claudia to be able to
make garments from models
open so she could make some
totally new designs I do not know if you have
present the old machines from
knitwear provide really patterns
sad a little 80 instead of thanks to
this pitino this can actually
it’s a choice is called aiab or liars
beautiful
and it is indeed a developed component
for German programmers who
applied to a minus 1 allows via
a python software of
a claudia to make some patterns
via chimp which is software for
photo editing where the pixel is a
essentially, it is precisely that point
make them with a car from
knitwear
well this result the thing really
interesting in my opinion and that thanks
at the king of this car was
possible to claudia make a series
of backpacks these that are truly a
product made and finished is no longer a
prototype so we do not talk about it anymore
prototypes to talk about product made and
finished with an open source technology
ok what we expect from the future well
surely both roads are alone
at the beginning of a journey that we
we want to carry on the idea is that
to continue to feed one
community a community is offline
so for the co design for the practices
sharing their own practices
that online
so for share and practices
to share
through the internet the projects that
they are made both inside the
our courses that simply with the
method that we teach or anyway that
we propose the thing really
interesting in addition to the
sharing the idea of having one
community and so on and that the fact of
bring technology and within
of fashion also allows women to
approach technology often for
one reason or another for women
they remain a moment outside of everyone
these are called technological fields
maybe they are closer to other realities
on the other hand, digital fashion is still there
want to get closer to the alle
technologies but not just for fashion
this is a front door let’s say
to be able to give back the grit to who has it
lost maybe to start over with a
work
in short, I lost but now comes the
funny part
the beautiful thing of a community is
that a bit like a family
the family lives of crisis relationships of di
value and this value is given by
trust my community is that of
maker and the values we only have
those of sharing the exchange
of knowledge this exchange of knowledge is a
po say what fills the step
the gap that existed between mine
generation and for example mine
grandmother
so all that TV
the craftsmanship to know how to do is gone
lost due to a lack of connection between
generations is filled by the makers
let’s say the most interesting thing
surely it is that what the maker
they created the community through the community
community spaces is not just one
mere to do but it’s a moment of
sharing that does not end there but goes
over
therefore it opens the way to new methods e
work practices
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