Artistic craftsmanship and digital technologies: a possible combination? - Artigianato artistico e tecnologie digitali: un binomio possibile?

Manfredi de Bernard

Manfredi de Bernard has a PhD in Cultural Management and currently holds a post-doc at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research interests focus on applications of complexity theory to the study of creative and cultural industries to highlight interdependencies among actors at different order of scales.

Camilla Ferri

Camilla Ferri has a PhD in Management and currently holds a post-doc at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In her research, she studies long-standing organizations and creative entrepreneurs in urban and peripheral contexts to theorize on temporality and the relationship between change and continuity involving organizations, communities and institutional actors.

Margherita de Luca

A graduate in Arts Management - Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities at Ca' Foscari, she is currently working on a research grant within the iNEST - Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem project. In her thesis projects, she has dealt with the value of art for business, in particular focusing on artistic interventions as an engine of innovation in companies. She has subsequently investigated the relationship between museums and companies, in order to understand the dynamics of collaboration ranging between philanthropy and partnership, towards an increasingly intense and innovative mutual exchange of knowledge. The research themes that characterise her current work take up the relationship between art, business and culture, with a particular focus on art-based business models for the transformation of storytelling typical of tourist destinations. She is particularly interested in the relationship between stereotype, culture, cities, images, business and tourism.

Alberta Menegaldo

ALBERTA MENEGALDO An architect by training, after graduating she approached the topics of digital fabrication as a tool to enable new visions and production paradigms. She collaborates with Fablab Venice to develop research and design approaches that integrate contemporary development trends with the creative and cultural possibilities provided by digital fabrication technologies, including through funded design and networking. In 2021, together with other professionals, he created Prossimi, a Venetian social enterprise that translates the technological opportunities of digital fabrication into projects and paths to create a more participatory, inclusive and sustainable society.

FABLAB VENEZIA is a digital fabrication and social innovation laboratory established in 2014 in the Venetian hinterland; it is dedicated to the realisation of projects, training courses and the creation of advanced solutions for manufacturing, creativity and culture through the use of digital fabrication technologies (3D printing, 3D scanning, advanced modelling, robotics, numerical control machining). Particularly active in the digitisation of craftsmanship processes, it promotes a virtuous interaction between tradition and innnovation, which is able to valorise historical manual skills by favouring accessibility to innovative processes. For years it has been promoting technical and technological training courses and workshops for young people, adults, companies and professionals.