MAKER FAIRE ROME 2024

Rome, 24 October 2024

Maker Faire Rome, promoted and organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, is now in its 12th edition. An event where imagination and creativity take shape and where Makers, innovators and creative people from all over the world showcase projects in electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, gaming, music, art, education, and much more.

For the first time, Accademia Italiana is taking part in this great event by participating with two fashion projects that tell a story of innovation, sustainability and manual skills.

Fausto Ineri presents the project ‘Fiubric: Not Just Waste’, which puts the spotlight on the overproduction typical of the fashion industry, which makes the sector the second most polluting on the planet. Modern recycling techniques still have numerous limitations and produce harmful effects on environmental balances. The Fiubric project thus develops a new textile technique that, starting from used, unsold or leftover garments, allows the production of fabrics in an alternative way to the conversion of these leftovers into yarn. The type of fabric imagined is inspired by the warp and weft interlacing of classic tweed fabrics, but replacing the yarns with bands obtained from used or discarded fabrics. This will result in a reinterpretation of both the weaving system and the characteristic patterns.

Sofia Elena Barella exhibits her project ‘Diversity, Fun and Fashion’ with which, after observing the diffusion model of trends and examining the psychological implications behind homologation choices, she came up with a solution that encourages people to play with fashion in a creative way, through the use of combinable modular tiles, made with the use of laser cutting, with which one can build clothes but also objects, accessories and anything else that creativity can stimulate.