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CALL FOR MAKERS
EVERYONE IS A MAKER!
SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT BY MAY 31 !
There are many ways to participate:
you can exhibit your project: we’ll give you for free a booth with table and chairs inside the halls, which will be filled with visitors who are curious and interested in meeting you
you can make a presentation in public: we’ll give you for free a room or a stage where you can talk about your project or tell your story or deal with the issues that you want to propose
you can hold a workshop: we’ll give you for free a workshop area where you can do interactive demonstrations and engage participants -adults and / or children- in practical activities
you can perform in public: we’ll give you for free a space or a stage for you to perform in your creative, technological, robotic, musical, pyrotechnic performance…
Sponsors interested in acquiring space with a fee may consult the sponsors section.
Projects will be selected by a jury and will participate free of charge. We expect creative, innovative, fun, interactive projects, showing the process by which the achievements enrich visitors communicating passion and ingenuity.
Some examples:
3D printing
3D scanning
Arduino
Art
Artisans & New Craft
Biology
Cultural Heritage
Drones
Education
Energy & Sustainability
Fabrication
Fashion & Wearables
Food & Agriculture
Games
Hacks
Home Automation
Internet of Things
Kids & Education
Music & Sound
Open Source
Recycling & Upcycling
Robotics
Science
Steam Punk
Wellness & Healthcare
The Maker Faire is a great celebration of invention, not limited to business but open to all forms of applied creativity, from the most serious to the most imaginative projects.
It will also be possible to sell products or gadgets.
The content will be valued on the website and our press & media team will diffuse them to the newspapers, radio and television stations, which in the past years have devoted a lot of attention to the participating projects.
Participating in the Maker Faire in Rome means: a great deal of visibility, a lot of contacts, lots of fun.
To submit your projects you need to enter the restricted area for exhibitors and fill in the form.
Furthermore…
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INNOVATIVE CRAFTSMEN
At the Maker Faire business opportunities are also born and we will devote a specific area to innovative craftsmen, dedicated to those who have introduced elements of technological creativity in their production or have transformed their “maker” idea into a craft. This area is supervised by Stefano Micelli, in collaboration with Monica Scanu.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
The projects in the nutrition field will have their own area: innovative products, tasting, trade, innovative technologies for food production will be selected by Charles Hausmann (ARM – Roman Market Enterprise). Food makers, we are waiting for you!
FABLAB / MAKERSPACE / HACKERSPACE / MAKER GROUPS
The spaces will be allocated according to the submitted projects, so if you are laboratories or groups of makers you still need to present one or more concrete projects which will be subject to selection: the space will be sized according to the selected projects.
As a laboratory you can freely decide to submit projects on behalf of your associates or delegate each of them to fill out the Call for Makers: in the first case a single contract on your behalf for a total space will be made, while in the second case more separate contracts for individual spaces will be made.
COMPLETE RULES
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS 31.05.2015.
The proposals will be forwarded exclusively online filling out the forms in the reserved area for exhibitors.
You can propose
projects to be exhibited in one stand,
public presentations,
workshops and demonstrations,
performances and exhibitions.
The jury that will select the projects of the Call for Makers is composed of: Massimo Banzi, Riccardo Luna, Alessandro Ranellucci.
The exception are the following under sections which will be respectively selected from:
“artisans innovative craftsmen” area: Stefano Micelli, Monica Scanu, Luca Iaia (CNA), Paolo Manfredi (Confartigianato), Charles Martin (Wisdom)
“food and agriculture” area: Charles Hausmann (ARM – Roman Market Enterprise).
The evaluation will be based on the following parameters: creativity, originality, interactivity. All projects that actively involve visitors and show other than the outcome the process of design and construction will be positively evaluated.
Especially under the sections mentioned above, particular attention will be focused on:
“innovative craftsmen” area, product innovation or process, design, sustainability.
“food and agriculture” area: innovative foods for nutritional characteristics, solutions for environmental sustainability, innovation in the functional use of the product, innovation in packaging.
In all cases the demands of space, special technicalneeds and safety risks will also be considered.
Places are limited and the number of accepted proposals will be decided based on availability of space. The juries reserve the right to place projects in the area considered more appropriate to the subject of the proposal, taking into account where possible any requests or indications of the proposer. The juries reserve the right to assign to each project adequate space as needed.
Within 30 days from the closing date of the Call for Makers the possible acceptance of projects will be notified via e-mail. Communications relating to the contract and other logistical information will follow. Projects not accepted within the first term will be placed on a waiting list that will be redeemed by September 15 for the allocation of remaining places.
The proposals regarding the exposure of projects, if accepted, will lead to the allocation of a stand. Presence is required at this stand while th Maker Faire Rome 2015 is open to the public (three days).
Project articipation in the Maker Faire Rome will be accepted free of charge, without refund or compensation and no cost for use of the space assigned.
SUBMIT A PROJECT
http://makers.makerfairerome.eu/mfr15#eng/
For more info, contact us at makers@makerfairerome.eu
