Watch the recording of the meeting with Massimo Temporelli that took place at STEP FuturAbility District as part of the scientific and cultural program. Content only available in Italian language.

Technology should come under the umbrella of humanities and we need to stop thinking that this is only a technical issue. The devices and machines we imagine, design, build and use are the main drivers of our humanity, since time immemorial, from primordial fire and stone tools to digital, robotics and artificial intelligence.

“Humans design technologies and technologies design humans”, is a phrase that states how we homo sapiens co-evolve with the technologies we invent, which is why we have to study and create technology in a new way, with our hands, with creativity and by merging knowledge, as happened in the workshops where Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo worked during the Renaissance. It would be a renaissance, which we kind of deserve to experience again.

Massimo Temporelli is 48 years old and holds a degree in Physics; he has worked as a curator at the National Science and Technology Museum of Milan for 10 years. Today, he is a digital fabrication entrepreneur, consultant and keynote speaker on innovation, with a particular focus on the human-technology relationship with all the anthropological and sociological repercussions that this relationship entails and will entail.

He is the CEO and co-founder of TheFabLab, a digital fabrication lab whose headquarters can be found in Milan. He was a TEDx speaker in 2012 (Florence) and 2020 (Turin). He has done popular science television programmes for Sky and Rai. He is the author and voice of the popular podcast F***ing Genius (Storielibere.fm). He writes for the magazines Wired and Millionaire and his latest book is entitled Noi siamo tecnologia [We are technology] (Mondadori, Strade blu, 2021). In 2016, he won the Federico Faggin Innovation Award'. He has been an AIRC ambassador since 2017.

Programme appointments must be booked and this can be done online, subject to availability.