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Massimo Menichinelli

Massimo Menichinelli

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director at ELISAVA Research - Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) at ELISAVA - Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (UVic-UCC)

  • Education

    • Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC)

      2012 - 2012
      Fab BootCamp 2012 Digital Fabrication

      Activities and Societies: Digital Fabrication & FabLab FabLab Barcelona, January 2012.

    • Centro di Formazione Professionale Riccardo Bauer

      2002 - 2002
      Packaging Professional Specialization

      Packaging design (product and graphic design) and marketing

    • TOP-IX Consortium

      2015 - 2015
      Big Dive Data Science

      Big Data, Data Science, Data Visualization

    • Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

      2004 - 2004
      Design and locality

      "Wd4° Workshop Design. Design for communication and promotion of local identity Summer Seminar", Seminar”. Organized by Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” and Agenzia SDI – Napoli Federico II. Morcone (BN). Wd has been selected for the 2004 'Compasso d'oro' prize, ADI. Design and locality. How design can valorize local identitythrough the project of a collective event.

    • Fab Academy

      2012 - 2012
      Diploma in Digital Fabrication Digital Fabrication

      The Fab Academy teaches principles and applications of digital fabrication. It was developed to teach hands-on skills in fab labs, which began as an outreach project from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, and has grown into a global network of more than 500 labs. Fab Academy instruction is based on MIT’s popular rapid-prototyping course How To Make (almost) Anything, taught by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld. It offers a distributed rather than distance educational model: students learn in local… Show more The Fab Academy teaches principles and applications of digital fabrication. It was developed to teach hands-on skills in fab labs, which began as an outreach project from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, and has grown into a global network of more than 500 labs. Fab Academy instruction is based on MIT’s popular rapid-prototyping course How To Make (almost) Anything, taught by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld. It offers a distributed rather than distance educational model: students learn in local workgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines, which are then connected globally by content sharing and video for interactive classes. The Fab Diploma is awarded by the Fab Academy and it has no institutional connection with MIT. Show less

    • ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona

      2002 - 2003
      Erasmus Interchange Design

    • Politecnico di Milano

      1999 - 2006
      Master of Science in Industrial Design, final mark: 98/100 Product Design, Service Design, Interior Design

      Degree Thesis: "Collaborative networks. Design for an Open Peer-to-Peer self-organization", tutor prof. Ezio Manzini. A thesis about how service design can be useful for co-designing community-based organisational forms (inspired from Open Source and Peer-to-Peer software ones) that can achieve self-organisation through peer-to-peer sharing and can then face complex problems successfully thanks to their own complexity.

    • Aalto University

      2011 - 2020
      Doctor of Arts New Media

  • Experience

    • Martín Ruiz de Azúa Design Studio

      Jul 2003 - Jul 2003
      Designer

      Exhibition design for the Forum Barcelona 2004

    • Ronen Joseph Design Studio

      Oct 2004 - Dec 2004
      Designer

      Internship. Product Design

    • Openp2pdesign.org

      Mar 2005 - now
      Founder

      Studying open collaborative projects and the systems that design them since 2005

    • Politecnico di Milano

      Sept 2006 - Feb 2007
      Teaching assistant

      Support for the teaching activities (professors) and for the research and design activities (students), especially the Erasmus ones.Presentation of two lessons regarding the relationship between design and territory: an historical review of the relationships between design, territory and community, and an introduction to the design methodologies for the complexity of territory andof its communities.Design of a website dedicated to the course and its design community, where everyone in the course has a blog and a wiki for the collective discussion on the projects:http://www.uomo-design-territorio.polimi.it Show less

    • Progetto25zero1.com

      Feb 2007 - Oct 2007
      Product Designer and Web Designer

      Product design (lamps, home accessories), web design. C-BOX foodbag for Il Sole 24 Ore, presented at the 2007 Milan Furniture Fair

    • Politecnico di Milano

      Oct 2007 - Jan 2008
      Teaching Assistant

      Final Synthesis Design Studio Digital Services and CollaborativeNetworks, Master Degree Course in Industrial Design, main prof. EzioManzini.Support for the teaching activities (professors) and for theresearch and design activities (students).Design of a website dedicated to the course and its designcommunity.

    • Torino 2008 World Design Capital

      Nov 2007 - Jul 2008
      Web Designer and Web Master

      Webdesign and administration for the website, blog and newsletter ofthe Changing the Change conference (10-11-12 July 2008, Torino):

    • Zerouno Srl

      Dec 2007 - Jan 2008
      Web & Multimedia designer

      Web design, graphic design, 3D modeling and rendering.

    • Costa Group

      Feb 2008 - Aug 2010
      Interior designer

      Budget and 2D/3D design and visualization of interior design projectsfor shops, bars, restaurants, hotels.

    • CitiLab

      Oct 2008 - Oct 2008
      Workshop Facilitator

      UrbanLabs 08, an event organized in the days 9-10-11October 2008 at the Citilab-Cornellà (Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain), dedicated to the study of new technologies and social innovations for the city. Participated in the role of facilitator of the Working Group A (Open Innovation).

    • TOP-IX Consortium

      Jun 2009 - Jun 2009
      Workshop Facilitator

      I Realize 09Turin, 9-10 June 2009Two days aimed at identifying unsolved problems, suggesting possible (technological?) solutions and stimulating the creation of new disruptive start-ups in different fields.Participated in the role of co-facilitator of the Working Group "Post-Industrial Design" with Giorgio Olivero (ToDo).

    • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

      Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
      Workshop Facilitator

      Open P2P Design Workshop25-27 November 2009, ADM - School of Art, Design & Media - Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeA workshop co-facilitated together with Roger Pitiot about the Open P2P Design methodology and how to apply it with a community of students in order to co-design Open Design collaborative activities. This workshop is part of the Singapore Design Festival 2009.

    • Hongik University

      Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
      Workshop Facilitator

      Open P2P Design Workshop20-23 November 2009, IDAS - Hongik University, Seoul, South KoreaA workshop co-facilitated together with Roger Pitiot about the Open P2P Design methodology and how to apply it with a community of students in order to co-design Open Design collaborative activities. With the support and participation of Creative Commons Korea.

    • Disseny Hub Barcelona, DHUB

      Feb 2010 - May 2011
      Assistant Curator

      Research support for the exhibition “Full Print3d. Printing objects” (16.06.2010 – 22.05.2011), about Digital Fabrication, Manufacturing, Design.

    • Platoniq

      Dec 2010 - Dec 2010
      Report Author

      Author of the report "Business models for Open Hardware, Fab Labs, DIY Craft":http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/open-design/business-models-for-open-hardware/http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/fabbing/business-models-for-fab-labs/http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/open-design/business-models-for-diy-craft/

    • DMY Berlin

      Jun 2011 - Jun 2011
      Speaker / Facilitator

      Speaker and facilitator about organizing open processes with open business models.This activity took part inside the Open Helsinki group, part of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012.

    • Piknik Frequency ry. (Pixelache)

      Sept 2011 - Sept 2011
      Workshop Facilitator

      Facilitator for the Open P2P Design workshop.

    • Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA)

      Sept 2011 - Sept 2011
      Guest Lecturer

      Guest Lecturer at the Urban Social Design summer course

    • Aalto University

      Mar 2013 - May 2014

      Lecturing the Digital Fabrication Studio course, organizing the Open Knowledge Festival 2012, working on the development of the Aalto FabLab. Lecturing the Designing Open Innovation course in the Design Department (School of Art, Design and Architecture)

      • Producer and Lecturer for the Aalto FabLab at Media Factory

        Dec 2011 - May 2014

      • Lecturer

        Mar 2013 - Mar 2013

    • MUSE - Museo delle Scienze

      Mar 2013 - Mar 2014
      Fab Lab developer

      Development of the Muse FabLab: business plan, tools and machines, education, website, communication, human resources.

    • IED Istituto Europeo di Design

      Apr 2013 - Jan 2015
      Guest Lecturer

      Guest lectures on the implications, context and business models of Open Design, Digital Fabrication and FabLabs

    • SUPSI

      Nov 2013 - Jan 2015
      Lecturer

      Lecturing the "Design with the user: from User-centered Design to Open Design" and "Open Project Management: Communities and Business Models" courses within the Master in Advanced Interaction Design

    • CheFuturo

      Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
      Author

      Articles for the Italian innovation magazine CheFuturo: http://www.chefuturo.it/author/massimomenichinelli/

    • Opendot srl

      Feb 2014 - Sept 2014
      Fab Lab developer

      Development of the Opendot FabLab: business plan, activities, tools and machines.

    • Make In Italy Italian Fablab & Makers Foundation CDB

      May 2014 - Feb 2015
      Director

      I worked as a Director for the first year of the Foundation, helping with the development of the online platform, producing content, listening to FabLabs and Makerspaces, facilitating the design and development of more than 30 of them, completing researches on their situation and on the social and work dimension of Makers.

    • Fab Foundation / Fab Academy

      Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
      Instructor

      Instructor for the Fab Academy 2015 at Opendot and WeMake in Milan.

    • Fab Lab Barcelona

      Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
      Project Manager

      WP project manager @ MAKE-IT (H2020 - RIA) (1/2016 - 31/01/2018)The overall objective of the MAKE-IT project is to understand the role of Collective Awareness Platforms (CAPs) in how the maker movement has grown and operates, particularly in relation to using and creating social innovations and achieving sustainability.Project manager @ Fablabs.io (10/2016 - 12/2018)Fablabs.io is the official platform for the Fab Lab Network, where Fab Labs are mapped, knowledge is shared, projects are developed and where the community discuss these topics.Coordinator & Project Manager @ DDMP - Distributed Design Market Platform (CE) (11/2018 - 12/2018)The Distributed Design Market Platform is a four-year project funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe fund. It acts as an exchange and networking hub for the European Maker Movement. It consists of both online and offline activities such as events, resources, workshops, fairs and bootcamps that promote and advocate for emerging creative talent in Europe and their business productivity and sustainability.Researcher @ DSISCALE (H2020 - CSA) (1/2018 - 12/2018)The DSISCALE project aims to support policymakers, funders and, most importantly, practitioners to scale digital social innovation (DSI) and collective awareness platforms (CAPs) in Europe and to make the most of the opportunities in using tools such as open data open hardware to address some of Europe’s biggest social challenges. WP project manager @ SISCODE (H2020 - RIA) (5/2018 - 12/2018)The overarching aim of SISCODE is to better understand co-creation as a bottom-up and design-driven phenomenon that is flourishing in Europe (in fab labs, living labs, social innovations, smart cities, communities and regions), to analyse favourable conditions that support its scalability and replication and to use this knowledge to cross-fertilise RRI practices and policies. Show less

    • RMIT Europe

      Jan 2019 - Jan 2022

      Coordinator & Project Manager @ OIT - OpenInnoTrain (H2020-MSCA-RISE) (01/2019 - 01/2022)A global network of researchers and industry practitioners across Europe and Australia for promoting the translation of research between university-industry through cooperation and Open Innovation in the sectors of: FinTech, Industry 4.0, CleanTech, FoodTech. Coordinator & Project Manager @ OIT - OpenInnoTrain (H2020-MSCA-RISE) (01/2019 - 01/2022)A global network of researchers and industry practitioners across Europe and Australia for promoting the translation of research between university-industry through cooperation and Open Innovation in the sectors of: FinTech, Industry 4.0, CleanTech, FoodTech.

      • Research Fellow

        Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

      • Research Fellow

        Jan 2019 - Jan 2021

    • Politecnico di Milano

      Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
      Senior Resident Researcher

      Senior Resident Researcher at Polifactory - Politecnico di Milano

    • University School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona

      Jan 2022 - now
      Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor)

    • ELISAVA Research

      Oct 2023 - now

      • Director

        Sept 2024 - now

      • Interim Director

        Oct 2023 - Aug 2024

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Tram de Recerca 2014-2015-2016-2017-2018-2019

      AQU Catalunya
      Nov 2024

    • Avaluació del Professorat Lector de l’Àmbit d'Enginyeria i Arquitectura

      AQU Catalunya
      Jul 2021

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Massimo Menichinelli
      Keynote Speaker - Jul 2013 Open Design / Shared Creativity Festival - Fad / Barcelona
    • Awarded to Massimo Menichinelli
      Keynote Speaker - Nov 2009 Open 2009 SymposiumHelsinki, 06 November 2009OPEN 2009 – Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium is an event for all interested parties who want to understand the ongoing shift from an industrially organized era to an era of networks and social production.