Current position

Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) at ELISAVA - Barcelona School of Design and Engineering ( UVic-UCC )

Education

Doctor of Arts in New Media @ Aalto University

Master of Science in Industrial Design @ Politecnico di Milano - School of Design

Massimo Menichinelli, Doctor of Arts in New Media & Master of Science in Industrial Design, is a designer who researches and develops open, collaborative, and co-design projects and the systems that enable them since 2005. He uses design tools and processes in order to help companies, organizations, cities and local communities to develop open and collaborative processes, business, services, places and projects such as Open Design, FabLab and User-driven Open and Social Innovation initiatives. Massimo has given lectures and workshops in various countries including Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Mexico, Colombia, South Korea, Singapore, China.

Massimo has published several scientific articles and books on the topics of Open Design, Digital Fabrication, Makers, Fab Labs and Social Innovation and has lectured on Digital Fabrication and Open Design at Aalto University (Helsinki/Espoo, Finland) and Open Design at SUPSI (Lugano, Switzerland) and in the Fab Academy in the Opendot and WeMake fab labs (Milan, Italy).

Massimo worked on the development of the Aalto FabLab, the MUSE Fab Lab (Trento, Italy), the Opendot makerspace/Fab Lab (Milan, Italy) and as a Director at Make In Italy Italian Fablab & Makers Foundation CDB where he researched and facilitated Fab Labs and Makers in Italy.

For several years Massimo was also a project manager for research projects at IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona / Fab City Research Lab, especially in the MAKE-IT and SISCODE Horizon 2020 European project and as a coordinator of the Creative Europe platform programme Distributed Design Market Platform (DDMP) and as project manager of Fablabs.io, the official and open source platform for the global Fab Lab Network. He then worked as Research Fellow at RMIT Europe, the European hub of RMIT University, in Barcelona, working at the coordination of the Horizon 2020 project OpenInnoTrain. During 2021 he was also Senior Resident Researcher at Politecnico di Milano - School of Design .

Massimo Menichinelli is now Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) at ELISAVA - Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (UVic-UCC).