We would love to invite you at our table for a lunch in studio. Do you have any idea, experience, opinion, project to share with us?

La scuola che sogniamo noi non costa nulla.

Puoi entrarci sia da Torino, sia da Enna. Anche alle tre del mattino.
È una scuola che corre alla tua velocità perché sei tu a decidere di cosa parlare. A rispondere alle domande non sono solo i docenti, ma anche i compagni di banco.
Nella scuola che abbiamo in mente noi non contano i titoli di studio: chiunque può insegnare se in tanti lo vogliono ascoltare.
La nostra scuola è una condizione mentale. È una creatura in divenire.
La nostra scuola è di tutti.

The product is locally-sourced grocery. Mainly food, but also cleaners, articles for personal and body care etc.
Community supported agriculture (c.s.a.), indeed, is not a new thing. The traditional c.s.a. service though have few rigidities, which Tacatì translates into opportunities and an innovative service model.

Rigidity n.1 – offer: lack of flexibility with the variety of products and the quantity you can order. Usually c.a. boxes are made of a fixed quantity of goods (usually family-sized), whose composition varies according to the season and the availability of the single producer that source them.

Rigidity n.2 – lifestyle: lack of flexibility with the delivery times and places. Boxes are delivered at working times for the producer and for you as well, typically at your place or in gathering places that are difficult to reach. Unless you don’t work at home/you can easily leave you office for a while, it’s quite difficult to catch the box and the user experience become a nightmare.

Rigidity n.3 – prices: lack of flexibility in the selection and the substitution of producer or in adding a new one, which also implies a very limited competition and a sort of monopoly which tend to keep prices at the upper side of the market.

Tacatì gathers local producers ( = whose production site is less than 100km away from your place) and conveys their offers into a single web shop: you browse the offer, fill your e-cart with the exact quantities that fit your specific weekly needs, choose a delivery place – it can be your place, your office or a gathering point nearby -, pay with your credit card and wait for the box!

Deliveries happen once per week. Prices are much lower than the corresponding product at the supermarket (while quality is higher!) and gathering places can be user generated: if you have a refrigerator too big for your personal/family/business needs, you can offer your place/office/shop to host some of Tacati deliveries and get a percentage of the shipping price!

Last but not least, Tacatì has a federal architecture: if you feel like selecting and organizing a network of local producers around your city and set-up a similar service for your fellow citizens, you can contact Giulia and Stefano and borrow their web platform (and experience!!) to start a new, sustainable and smart business adventure! Tacati is always in search for partners!

Easy, immersive and extremely challenging at the same time!
On Soccer Square – with a hyper-immersive interface – you will be guided through the first steps of the experience of being a coach: as soon as you get accustomed with rules, rhythms, action and events, you will be able to successfully drive your own team both through championships and friendly games. With Soccer Square you have plenty of opportunities to win, gain and to scale up your proficiency level toward an always more challenging experience!

Live!
Soccer Square is the only managerial game about soccer where things happen almost for real! As soon as the time goes on, even if you don’t actively participate, your team will play and end up tired anyway; the grass of your soccer pitch will fade off or grow too much; the floor of the locker room will get dirty and the mood of you team will slow down. You are the coach and they need you! This also means that if you can’t play for a while, you can always come back: maybe your players have missed you a lot, but they are still bravely hard-earning their position on the A-rankings!

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

As for guests, Gnammo may serve the needs of educated tourists is search of a deep dive into local habits and atmospheres, as well as of people that just do not feel like cooking but still would love to sit in a kitchen and eat like at their place. Unique as it’s proposition is, Gnammo wants to be sophisticated and simple at the same time.

As for the host: countless people in Italy feel in their hands the power to master a given dish, or even a branch of Italian cuisine. They say: “I can cook the best ‘spahetti con le cozze’ ever, just try it”. Gnammo’s offer stems from pairing the huge wealth of professionalism that is being cultivated in Italian private kitchens, with the self-confidence that injects the need of sharing and the undisputed sense of hospitality of Italian homes.

Siamo in un locale, a Torino, San Salvario. Hanno organizzato una serata. L’invito dice “neteracity-incontrarsi per scrivere, scrivere per incontrarsi”. Un ragazzo legge un racconto. L’ha scritto lui. È ambientato proprio qui, in questo stesso locale. Tramite le sue parole comincio a vedere questo luogo in modo diverso. Quando il ragazzo ha finito, una donna inizia a leggere anche lei. Porta avanti la storia di lui. Poi altri leggono i propri racconti. Alla fine, spiegano che siamo tutti invitati a scrivere una storia. Collegandoci a una di quelle che abbiamo sentito. L’importante è portare avanti un personaggio o farlo incontrare coi nostri. E bisogna che la storia sia ambientata in questo locale. O in altri di San Salvario che partecipano al progetto. C’è un sito online dove c’è la mappa della città. Si trovano i racconti. E i locali attivi. Questa sera l’ho passata con degli altri scrittori. Ho ascoltato i loro racconti. Scriverò anch’io e forse una sera leggerò il mio racconto in un locale come questo. E qualcun altro lo porterà avanti. Chissà dove.

L’idea in sintesi
Neteracity è un’opera di narrazione collettiva di storie e luoghi, ma prima ancora è un con-testo che permette a una comunità aperta di narratori di incontrarsi.
Vi partecipano autori i cui racconti sono ambientati in luoghi reali della città: bar, ristoranti, biblioteche, teatri, supermercati, librerie, agenzie creative, associazioni, negozi, cinema, università.
I luoghi reali possono esser parte del progetto posizionandosi sulla mappa presente sul sito. Diventano così location per le storie degli scrittori.
Gli autori hanno due regole a cui attenersi: la prima è che devono continuare o collegarsi a una storia già esistente con un link che ne sviluppi la trama. La seconda è che il racconto sia ambientato in una location segnalata nella mappa.
Le storie sono racconti brevi (massimo 3.000 battute*) che possono essere lette anche singolarmente.

* il limite ha fluttuato in queste prime settimane di sperimentazione.

L’obbiettivo
Incontrarsi per scrivere, scrivere per incontrarsi.
Neteracity è un processo di creazione e condivisione di testo e contesto sociale.
La letteratura si fonde con la città e i suoi luoghi.
Quando i racconti ambientati in una stessa location raggiungono un numero sufficiente, si organizzano eventi di lettura dei testi e il pubblico è invitato a partecipare scrivendo a sua volta.
Per ogni città può nascere una Neteracity online.
Torino sarà la prima.

Fase di sperimentazione
A febbraio 2012, è iniziata la fase di sperimentazione offline, precedente e propeduetica alla definizione del sito web.

Un collettivo di 4 autori ha avviato il progetto che ha aggregato un gruppo progressivamente più ampio.

Gli incontri avvengono ogni 2 settimane circa, la sera, in un locale/luogo/location di San Salvario.

Durante gli incontri si leggono i nuovi racconti e si discute del progetto.

Prossimo evento ntrct

Giovedì 12 luglio, ore 20.00
al
Casa di Savina
suonare Neirotti, via Ornato 10 – a Torino!

Programma: Storie e Gnammo

• leggere
• scrivere
• incontrarsi
• mangiare
• bere
• guardare
• varie
• eventuali

Info e contatti
scrivi un commento a qualsiasi post di questo blog, sezione ntrct
e/o direttamente a: paolo@neterature.net

Le storie, più background e info
In attesa del sito dedicato, il progetto e le storie sono pubblicate su questo blog.
Consulta le storie!!
e
segui ntrct su Twitter e su Facebook!

Whether you have something to ask or to offer, Tam Town is an innovative way to give value to your time.

Do you have an issue that you are not able/you don’t have the time to solve?
In Tam Town you will find somebody like you, near you, which is eager to help you! It’s very very simple: shortly post what you need, get offers from Tammers, choose one and meet him/her! Services can be offered for free or – more likely – for a fee. Payment is expected to happen both cash and via credit cards. Beat a Tam!

Do you have time, resources and competences to offer? The only things that matter are: who/where are you and which services you want to provide. In Tam Town you will find someone like you, by you, who needs you! Become a Tammer!

Want to know more? Subscribe to Tam Town mailing list and get updated on when the service will be running in your city!

Believe us. Regalister will bring a breakthrough innovation in the way you experience the very foundation of the limitless wealth of human societies (whether they are modern or pre-industrial): the gift.

Despite such an enormous importance, the gift experience is not properly curated and sometime ends with frustration, misunderstandings and even tragedies!

Every gift has a meaning in the mind of the one that gives it: if only for time expensive evaluations, consultations, wanderings that sometimes it involves. Not to speak about the subtle shame that one invariably feels when she’s aware that her gift is banal, insipid.
The tragedy comes when, despite all that pathos, the receiver responds with indifference, a smile of convenience or a trace of annoyance.

You may say: that’s the cost that you have to pay if you want to make a surprise! Forget it: the real surprise is getting something you always wanted from an unexpected person, or even the very person you wanted to show her love in that way.

So: here comes Regalister.

In collaboration with Treatabit – the playground for new media startuppers!

Podcast are available here.

Look Arcadia project

Season 2012-2013

Tuesday the 13th of November 2012:
The myths of Internet Marketing! How to reconcile SEO w/ UX
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.
w/Claudio Petrarulo.
Link to the presentation

Tuesday the 11th of December 2012:
Gamification as a strategy of user engagement
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.
w/Fabrizio Mirabito.
Link to the presentation

Tuesday the 15th of January 2013:
Beyond Responsive Design: Putting Mobile First!
Book here!
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.
Link to the presentation

Tuesday the 12th of February 2013:
Venture Capital: Istruzioni per l’uso!
Link to the presentation
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.

Tuesday the 12th of March 2013:
Start up storytelling – Landing Page e Video – Il racconto dell’idea!
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.
w/Ilenoliukgo
Link to the presentation

Tuesday the 16th of April 2013:
Ruby Ixd tuesday. La rivoluzione degli “Happy Miners” nelle start up..e non solo!
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.
w/welaika
Link to the presentation

Tuesday the 21th of May 2013:
“Piatto, flessibili e piccolo”. I nuovi trend di user interface design!
@ Società Anonima, via Pietro Micca 12, h. 19.
w/Piermaria Cosina – The doers project
Link to the presentation

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And then again… every second Tuesday of the month

Season 2011-2012:

Tuesday the 31st of January 2012: What interaction design can do for startups!
Link to the presentation.
@ Treatabit

Tuesday the 28th of February 2012: Latest coolest start-apps – what we can learn from them from an IxD perspective.
@ Judafire – via San Domenico 12bis – Turin.
Fully booked!!
Link to the presentation.

Tuesday the 3rd of April 2012: Startups’ horror stories + fast CSS dev framework & libraries Sass, Less, Compass, Blueprint, etc.
Fully booked!!
Link to the presentation.
HASHTAG: #ixdtu

Tuesday the 15th of May 2012: GIT and SVN
@ Judafire – via San Domenico 12bis – Turin.
To book a sit go here!
Link to the presentation
HASHTAG: #ixdtu

More public resources, not exactly under the hat of the IXD Tuesdays, but prepared and led with the same spirit:

September the 1st 2012, @ Citta dell’arte – Fondazione Pistoletto, workshop about Web Communication Strategy of Art projects (but you can easily take it as a basic guide to web communication): link to the presentation, supported by ArtMob. (Almost entirely in English)

September the 26th 2012, @ Social Media Week Torino, in collaboration with IED Torino – Everything is an infoviz. Link to the presentation is here.

“A book must be placed within an entire social, economic and political context and critiqued in terms of the contribution to maintaining and reproducing structures of power“

Well: Bookolico is a startup that wants to give back to readers and writers the power over books, and therefore have a deep impact on our society.

Are you a writer? Ok, you make your living in another way: we know you LOVE your job (you are a doctor, we suppose). Nevertheless, be honest: you occasionally write, and you love it as well. Don’t be shy.
Writing, in our society, is not considered an activity you can perform respectably twice per week, like swimming. But, hey you: this is not your problem, it’s ours. You write. And yes, you can publish what you write. And YES! We can read it eventually!!

Wait: there is a big difference though between swimming and writing twice per week. While swimming you consume value. While writing, you MAKE vuale – for others – and you deserve to be rewarded for it: that’s what Bookolico is for. Bookolico will help sharing and trading the value of ‘writings’(shall we call them eBooks?), in a way to respect both the time spent writing and the time spent reading. (Indeed: the cost of the book is equal to the price of the book + value of the time spent reading. If the book costs too much, in fact, we tend to ask ourselves: do we really need it? Will we ever bother to read it (=have the time to read it)?)

Bookolico’s founder, Giuseppe Spezzano, clearly knows it: to stimulate the circulation of writings, and therefore of dreams, we need to offer reader an affordable choice of fruition, and writers a possibility to share what they do, and be rewarded for it. In a simple, understandable way. With just a small percentage left to Bookolico’s platform.

How much such a percentage is? How do Bookolico will actually work and look like? We cannot reveal too much (we’ll do it in the near future!). For now we can just say that:

• Bookolico has a very interesting blog, for the pleasure of Italian readers
• Bookolico offers you a candy: in Bookolico’s landing page you can enjoy each week a different excerpt from novels of independent writers and vote it, while staying in touch with Bookolico updates. Tempted? Just go to www.bookolico.com and grasp some delicious finger food for your dreams!

Follows Bookolico on Twitter!

Are you an urban artist, designer, film-maker, architect or performer? Do you already have a group of collaborators, or are you keen to found one and work together in a multidisciplinary, collaborative experience?

If so, Artmob is designed for you:

• go to www.artmob.it
• create a collaborative project / find one / publish your own in search for further partners
• submit the project and get 5k€ of funding + the exclusive mentorship of international experts in the field of art and communication
• activate your project idea in one of the 4 partner cities of Artmob: Alessandria, Asti, Casale Monferrato, Giaveno!

ArtMob is a project funded by the Youth Department of the The Presidency of the Council of Ministers and of the Union of Italian Municipalities, boosted by Fondazione Pistoletto-Città dell’Arte, which involved us – The Doers – as designers and developers of the web platform, as well as ‘digital mentors‘ for the community of artists.

The web platform of ArtMob is the result of the collaboration among us and Paolo, Juan, Caterina, Armona, Margherita – from Città del’Arte – and a larger group of contributors from the network of ArtMob’s partners.

We hope to facilitate the activation of many and interdisciplinary group of artists and we are looking forward to give digital birth to the next project we are cultivating with Paolo & friends from Città dell’Arte!

The original idea comes from 5 designers, who delivered it as collaborative dissertation at European Institute of Design (IED): Gabriele Marchi, Diego Federico, Marco Condello, Simone Tiengo, Antonio Di Summa.

The City of Turin has adopted the idea as an experimental project for a class neighborhood, Barriera di Milano, interested by a major process of urban regeneration.

Follow the project in our blog!

Locum turned out to be a quite powerful concept: we put it together in our spare time while designing and developing Cineama. Despite such a relative lack of attention and care, Locum got finalist at Torino Open Data contest and again finalist at HFarm and Dreamit Ventures, two from the major international seed accelerators. Or, if you want to turn it the other way round, we were not ready enough to win the final rush.

If you want to be amazed by Locum’s story, so far, we have documented it here.

Locum beautiful graphics have been developed by our dear friend and excellent designer Miguel Cabanzo.

What does Cineama offer?

Cineama you would like to offer young screenwriters and directors a chance to see their work professionally carried out, as long as quality is deliverable with less than € 250,000 – approximately.

On the other hand Cineama wants to try out an alternative funding system to the legacy of the sector, giving everyone the chance to co-finance, through small but significant sums, their preferred movie.

Finally, Cineama will enable every user to support the distribution of their beloved films or documentaries, on line or off line.

How?

Cineama subscribers can:

• meet other community members and talk about Cinema through the community wall or creating on purpose discussion groups;
• upload a script and gather a community of collaborators to improve the movie project around it: (a) via a smart system of script’s comments, (b) giving them the possibility to enrich the project moodboard with multimedia references, (c) calling for their collaboration as artists and members of the film crew;
• enrich their professional profile, showing their experience as members of the movie industry, in order to get in touch with project owners in search of their skills;
• enjoy Cineama’s blog, with special news and unique insights about Cinema and its surroundings!

Roadmap

Cineama first release has been launched on July 2011. Now (Dec 2011) Cineama has more than 1200 subscribers, regularly and continuously growing in number and activism. Upcoming releases include enhancements on the usability side, new services to support offline social distribution and a more sophisticated bulletin board to facilitate demand and offer of skills to match smoothly. Stay tuned!

Have also collaborated on the project: Miguel Cabanzo - author of wonderful graphics and CSS developer, Riccardo Strobbia – our exuberant Php master chef, Roberto Cacciatore – tireless young developer and of course all Cineama’s staff (Chiara, Savina, Caterina, Antonio, Fabrizio, Tania and Federico, …).

Try it and write here your comments!

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