Designer and reseracher Maurizio Montalti will be our host for a residency in Casa Jasmina and to work on his project Bio Ex-Machina, a collaboration between Co-de-iT, Officina Corpuscoli and Digifabturing. Bio Ex-Machina, a collaborative research project exploring possibilities for interweaving digital and biological computation through the use of robotics and 3D printing technologies. A public lecture will be held at Toolbox Coworking to present the project.

The event is framed inside Project AARM, winner of the Bando Ora!, funded by Compagnia di San Paolo.

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Strongly characterised by a creative trans-disciplinary approach and rooted in a collaborative, research-based and experimental practice, Maurizio Montalti actively collaborates with professionals from other disciplines in a co-creative process, to arrive at thought-provoking solutions and design outcomes. His work spans across various mediums, previously exploring themes in relation to biotechnology, anthropology, bio- diversity, the ecosystem and the human impact on it, recent production technologies, and the importance of a symbiotic entanglement between natural life-forms, for an alternative advancement of society.