{"id":6911,"date":"2011-06-27T07:11:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.1627"},"modified":"2011-06-27T07:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:11:29","slug":"design-jam-rome-1-open-design-spreads-across-italy-lets-jam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/06\/design-jam-rome-1-open-design-spreads-across-italy-lets-jam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Jam Rome #1: Open-Design Spreads Across Italy. Let\u2019s Jam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest blog post by local champion, Cristiano Siri<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Design Jam Rome #1<\/a>, a two-day community collaboration event focused on User Experience Design (UX), where designers, professionals and students – gathered in teams – end up with different solutions in terms of web and mobile applications in response to a common social challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Design<\/p>\n

Background<\/h2>\n

Based on a Mozilla initiative, this is the first two-day jam \u2014 which follows the a series of one-day events in London<\/a> (UK), Oxford<\/a> (UK), Chapel Hill<\/a> (USA), Iasi<\/a> (RO), Barcelona<\/a> (ES) and Milan<\/a> (IT).<\/p>\n

The Topic<\/h2>\n

A challenge topic will be revealed the first morning of the workshop. The teams will discuss the issue proposed together with professional mentors. The topic itself has a social nature and it is relevant to the area. Being the issue planned together with an institution or NGO or no-profit organization, the team\u2019s outputs will have an immediate local impact.<\/p>\n

To facilitate the free exchange of ideas, all outputs, visualizations and other contributions made during the day are shared globally under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licenses.<\/p>\n

Who Should Attend?<\/h2>\n

Design Jams are for anyone who wants to improve their design, collaboration, brainstorming and presentation skills by tackling an interesting UX design challenge. It\u2019s an open call for interaction designers, UX researchers, information architects, web and graphic designers, developers, product managers + more\u2026. from students to experienced practitioners.<\/p>\n

Event Details<\/h2>\n

Date<\/strong>: 2nd & 3rd of July, 2011\u2028
\nTime<\/strong>: July 2: 10-18.30 \/ July 3: 10-13.00\u2028
\nVenue<\/strong>: Technotown<\/a> @ Villa Torlonia\u2028
\nAddress<\/strong>: Via Lazzaro Spallanzani, 1\/A, Rome (map<\/a>)
\nClosest Tube<\/strong>: Policlinico (line B) <\/p>\n

Registration<\/h2>\n

Registration is being handled via Eventbrite – is reserved to the first 30 persons who will book in.<\/p>\n

Reserve your ticket<\/strong>, today @ http:\/\/designjamroma.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/strong> (ps. Design Jams are free events. The 10 euro fee will be refunded at the end of the workshop.)<\/p>\n

Mentors<\/h2>\n

Luca Simeone<\/h4>\n

Luca Simeone is managing partner of Vianet and teaches design anthropology and interaction design at La Sapienza University and Ateneo Impresa Graduate Business School in Rome. He has published reviews and articles on design anthropology and ethnographic methods applied to design practices. He co-edited the books Beyond Ethnographic Writing (Armando, 2010) and REFF (DeriveApprodi, 2010) exploring new narratives that combine traditional writing with augmented reality technologies. In 2009 he founded FakePress, a think tank exploring the future of publishing and in 2011 he was a research affiliate with the SENSEable City Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA.
\nWeb<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.luca.simeone.name<\/a><\/p>\n

Salvatore La Rosa<\/h4>\n

Web<\/strong>: http:\/\/salvatorelarosa.posterous.com<\/a>
\nLinkedIn<\/strong>: http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/salvatorelarosa<\/a><\/p>\n

Dario Carrera<\/h4>\n

I\u2019m PhD in Public Administration and Management, title of thesis \u201cCreating social entrepreneurs. From civil society movements to social innovation: the role of the social enterprise incubators and centres for social innovation\u201d, at University of Rome \u201cTor Vergata\u201d, where I also teach \u201cManagement of Nonprofit Organizations\u201d . While coaching 10 year olds on Roman football pitches, I\u2019m member and coach of Liberi Nantes, costituita, sport association totally made up of refugees and forced migrants (the association is supported \u2013 free of charge – by the UNHCR). I\u2019m member in Solidarity Finance association (www.finansol.it), co-founder of The Hub Milano and founder of The Hub Roma.
\nWeb<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.hubroma.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Local Champions & Supporters<\/h2>\n

This event would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of local champions and supporters:<\/p>\n

Champions<\/h4>\n