Istheword"culture"hiddensomewhere?

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FromSTEMtoSTEAM

It’sinApple’sDNAthattechnologyaloneisnotenough—it’stechnologymarriedwithliberalarts,marriedwiththehumanities,

thatyieldsustheresultthatmakesourheartsing,andnowhereisthatmoretruethaninthesepost-PCdevices.

SteveJobsintheactofpresentingtheiPad2

HumanismmeetsScience&Technology

InnovativeInfrastructurers:IstheCo-workingSpace

aFlorentineWorkshop(‘Bottega’)oftheRenaissanceAge?

IstheCo-workingSpaceaFlorentineWorkshop(‘Bottega’)

oftheRenaissanceAge?

AndreadelVerrocchio(1435–1488)wasasculptor,painter,andgoldsmith,buthispupilsweren’tlimitedtofollowinghispreferredpursuits.Inhisworkshop,youngerartistsmightpursueengineering,architecture,orvariousbusinessorscientificventures.Verrocchio’sworkshopgavefreereintoanewgenerationofentrepreneurialartists—eclecticcharacterssuchasLeonardo,Botticelli,Perugino,andGhirlandaio.

ModernModernOpenWorkingSpace

TheGoldenEncounterbetweenHandandHead

TheGoldenEncounterbetweenHandandHead

Thedigitalrevolutioncelebratesthefigureofthecraftsmanwhose'hand-working'and'thinkinghead'areintimatelyconnected.Thus,theRenaissanceworkshopisreevaluated.

The Digital Factory: Recombining

Hand and Head Published on June 23, 2018

#Cloud computing, e-commerce, the mobile internet, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things trigger changes in business models and blur the boundaries of industries. Genomics, nanotechnology and robotics question what is ideally described as the scientific method. The human being is subjected to upheavals of such magnitude in his double profile of man who makes and man who thinks. The first, the Homo laborans, questions the 'how' the mutations happen; the second, the Homo faber, the 'why'. Are the two personalities compatible? Do the 'how' of making new things efficiently and the 'why' of ‘making thinking’ to transform the reality coexist in the same person?

Two diametrically opposed scenarios are posed by such questions. Their description evokes Richard Sennett's essay 'The Craftsman' (2008), which takes up and critically comments on 'The Human Condition' (1958) by Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). One scenario is similar to that of the two seas that never mix. Homo laborans sails in the sea of 'making things' where work is an end in itself, and is dictated by the needs imposed by technology. Subjected to technology or pleasantly attracted by it, we are 'Animal laborans', as Arendt would say, being enslaved to the tasks we are immersed in by the will of technology. Our doing is comparable to the manual work of past industrial revolutions. Think, for example, of the smartest machines, which can alert their human handlers when they need maintenance, or the cyborg, bionics and computer prosthesis, which give the human body the characteristics of the machine. With the help of technology, Homo faber navigates in the

TheDigitalFactory:RecombiningHandandHead

ByPieroFormicaJune23,2018

PlumebyPomini

Alampthatisarealartobject

MozartEffect

Exposuretotheartofmusicisaninvaluableopportunitytobuildbridgesbetweencommunitiesseeminglydistantfromeachother.

TheSpace-TimeofThreeProtagonistsofRevolutionaryChanges,1761-1775

Playingcards,notvisitingcards,inthetavernsofBologna

Unknown questions dance the can-can behind your back (MarkForsyth)

Thedelightofnotgettingwha

tyou

wanted

The Possibilist habits thepsychological space ofopen innovation– Wallsareinthemind’ThePossibilistpracticesserendipityandcontrolledsloppiness

Backtothechildhoodofherknowledge.Withthemindsetofabeginner,

thePossibilistfollowthepathofOpenInnovationwithintuitiveknowledgeandcreativeignorance.

Nec est mirum ex intervallo magnagenerari (‘And it is not surprising,either,thatgreatnessdevelopsonlyatlongintervals’)LuciusAnnaeusSeneca