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There were about 70 designers and self producers from all over the world, 8 important judges to evaluate their works, 5 interesting awards (offered by: Ottagono, Garage Design and Open Design Italia) who went to 5 talented winners.
But ODI hasn’t been just that! It was, for us, an exhibition of ideas, young talents willing to conquer the world, and a chance to establish new collaborations.
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Beside the exhibition-market there was a busy program of panels about self-production, and we want to tell you about the one we attended on the last day (Nov. 25th): Self-production, selling platforms and distribution. Here below there’s the list of the speakers we listened to:
- David Dolcini - designer and creator of Designeyed
- Maurizio Bazzano - CEO of Torino Lab
- Andrea Cattabriga - Co-founder of Slowd (which speech we liked a lot)
- Claudia Pignatale - Founder of the gallery Secondome.eu
- Antonia Karaisl - Localization manager at Etsy (!!!)
- Alessandro Molinari - co-creator of Garagedesign
- Elena Santi e Laura Succini - Founders of Open Design Italia
- Marco Bettiol - Researcher of Economy and management, Department of Economics and Business, Padoa University
(the panel was moderated by the journalist Valentina Croci)
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A few of them already knew the website and many were so happy to find it was in Italian; there were really a tiny bunch of skeptics, totally less than expected.
Others, - some of them with notorious names - came by and, charmed by Etsy, proposed us to collaborate and left us their contacts.
We came back home enriched from the great experience and, above all, with the smile on our faces knowing that our efforts paid back, that all the hard work on making people aware of the handmade world is going on the right way. Italy is discovering again its origins and discovering the new craftmanships and self-productions, thanks to new technologies and internet.
Yes, we are ready for Etsy!
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A special thank you goes to the EIT members that gave their time for this project and made this experience a special one:
- Alessia from knittingcate.etsy.com
- Antonella from altmeansold.etsy.com
- Francesca from etherealflowers.etsy.com
- Ilaria from gasometri.etsy.com
- Irene from infire.etsy.com
- Irene from ireneagh.etsy.com
- Milena from lorendesign.etsy.com
- Silvia from cloudnumbernine.etsy.com
And obviously... a special thank you from the bottom of our heart to Antonia, Localization Manager at Etsy Berlin, because without her, any of this couldn’t happen!
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Photo by Gasometri, Ethereal Flowers and Infire.
Browse the official gallery.
Read all the related articles (in italian):
- OpenDesignItalia, l'esperienza con l'Etsy Italia Team by LorenDesign