Sabina Barcucci

Biography

 Creative professional with a wide and heterogeneous international network. My connections span from knowledge institutions, to startups ecosystem and design businesses, to grassroots communities of hackers and makers. Anti-expert because wildly curious, during my career I have worn many hats. I have built my professional capacity inside town planning consulting firms while my communication skills have been nurtured of scientific mediation. My ability in negotiation developed within the realm of design business, as well as my aesthetic obsession. My managerial and organisational skills have matured within innovation labs while my sensitivity for cultural production has been educated within underground European scene.  In 2013 I joined the MUSE Science Museum and I designed and started the museum fablab, which I ran as a creative and managing director for the following 3 years. In 2015 I designed for MUSE the FabLabNet Interreg Central Europe project. It focused on interaction between Manufacturing 4.0 and grassroots communities. The project was funded by the European commission and raised about 3 million euros. Although I later moved on my career and left my full-time position at MUSE, I have maintained the role of content manager for the project. 

Research Interest

 Since February 2016 I work as an innovation manager at Opendot in Milan. This business and design oriented fablab is one of the most prominent, open innovation spaces for bottom-up multidisciplinary research on design and technologies in Italy. My role is to create public-private partnerships and programs for bottom-up researches and open innovation programs on creative applications of Artificial Intelligence algorithms, inclusive technologies for Smart City and IoT.  I belong and am active on one of the most creative and experimental scene of cultural and technical production in Europe and I closely practice from several viewpoints: from the business, to the institutional, through the informal perspective.