Simona Casonato

Wefab: Digital Fabrication In The Heart Of Milan

If you are looking to make the revolution, maybe it is worth a trial. Or, better to say, a prototype, for it is design we are talking about. To the shouts of Make the right thing, WeFab exhibition has taken place in Milan, between April 14 and 16 of 2011 (http://www.wefab.it/). Three days entirely dedicated to open design, open source design and fabbing, the home-made fabrication: activities generating a short circuit in the relations between designer's creative act, prototyping and industrial production. WeFab has demonstrated how very different steps of production cycle can collapse to a unique time and place. A time and place that accept the burden of discussing about some century of our history, from the Industrial Revolution on.... READ MORE...