Zoe Romano

Zoe Romano is a craftivist, senior consultant and artist whose practices interweave open design, intersectional technologies and social innovation. She studied philosophy at the University of Milan and her work balances conceptual thinking and concrete experimentation, exploring the poetic and political aspects of making. She co-founded one of the first makerspaces in Milan and her path has been growing in a constant research within the lines inscribed as an initiator of interdisciplinary projects especially through the languages of art, textiles and the ethics of care between human and non-human. She’s co-founder of OBOT a nomadic wetlab inquiring new ways to lower the barrier to access scientific tools, protocols and data by promoting co-research practices. Various contributions are included in books such as: “Opensourcing wearables” (2015), “Rebelling with Care” (2019), “Remanufacturing Italy" (2020), “Synthetic Becoming“ (2022), “Commons in Design” (2023).