Lazio Innova is the company of the Lazio Region of Italy for innovation and support for SMEs and startups. For four appointments in the context of the construction of the Regional Sustainable Development Strategy for the Lazio Region, we have agreed to support the staff of Lazio Innova to facilitate the sessions, completely remotely, with companies, local authorities, primary and secondary schools.
We have created, for each meeting, one or more scribing visualizations according to the specific topics and needs, which were shared in real time with the participants. Afterwards, we designed the digital and analog paper versions of the initiative documents, to be distributed and disseminated on online and offline channels.

“Alfabeto del Futuro” (EN: Alphabet of the Future) is the series of meetings held by LaStampa and Gruppo Gedi to give voice to local innovation challenges, from food to robots, telecommunications and the economy. Many appointments across different Italian cities with the goal to explain the present and future world, thanks to in-depth analyses and commentaries. We listened to the speeches and translated the content emerged from the conversations into images, creating clear and effective visual syntheses, that were then shared on social media. At the end of the tour we prepared a single map to summarize all the sessions happened throughout more than a year.

In March 2020, Covid-19 revolutionized the world, imposing a general lockdown to try to contain and counter the pandemic. The need to find tools and ways to describe a new reality and identify new forms of dialogue and listening has thus become increasingly widespread. With the intention of maintaining contact and collecting reflections and impressions on such a particular historical moment, we launched the “Reality Check” project, an illustrated story of the days completely revolutionized during the lockdown.
Starting with two questions (How are you using your time? What are you learning?), we have visualized the answers that customers, collaborators and friends send us, and then share them on social networks for the benefit of all.

GESDA is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland that aims at anticipating the future of science, analyzing current cutting-edge topics and trends, and then developing with diplomacy actors concrete projects helping human beings and our planet. GESDA gathers the best researchers and people, creating opportunities of interaction to allow those involved to create a positive and sustainable future. Initially they were looking for a scribe for an important meeting with many stakeholders, which then resulted in a request to support the whole design, facilitation and tech sides of the event. We facilitated a session on Zoom, organizing the different speeches, managing the visuals and paying attention to the rhythm of the very intense agenda. We also managed the logistics of the work in sub-groups, 10 parallel each with 4-5 people (with an additional 4-5 coming in and out), developing templates and work tools, training the rooms’ facilitators and coordinating a team of more than 20 people. We then realized a model in real time with the results of a survey conducted during the session, which helped identifying priorities and actionable areas.

Uvet Travel System is the Uvet Group’s network with travel agencies.
We designed and illustrated the 2019/2020 Public Service Charter and Company Profile, printed on paper sourced sustainably. For Rimini’s TTG we designed the set up for Uvet’s booth and realized illustrated portraits of the participants in real time. For BizTravel Forum we designed three backdrops, five totems, a visual for a reusable bottle and adapted the illustrations on a series of gadgets (tote bag, Sprout™ pencil, block notes, documents’ folder, a bike’s saddle cover and a desk planner). Furthermore, we realized a Knowledge Wall in real time, which was then cut into pieces. Each of them has been sent, inside a packaging designed ad hoc and with a mini printed version of the Knowledge Wall, to participants as a souvenir of the event.

FiordiRisorse is a business community that gathers managers, entrepreneurs and freelancers, with the aim of sharing experiences and best practices. In April 2020, FiordiRisorse has created the “Altrimenti” (EN “otherwise”) format, 30 minutes with thinkers and commentators to try to better understand the new reality and imagine new scenarios. We planned the talks, to be sure that the host had all the useful resources to alternate the live scribing with the presence of the speaker or his/her contents.
We scribed each session live, to visually empower the ongoing conversation and to help the audience memorize key concepts clearly and effectively. Live scribing could be seen on a portion of the screen or on a full screen, depending on the kind of conversation, and the result was then shared on various social media, available for everyone.

ChangemakerXchange, a global community for young changemakers, hosted the COVID-19 Collective Action Summit (20th – 22nd April) to facilitate cross-border connections, peer-learning and collaboration between changemakers working on the COVID-19 crisis response. We coordinated the organization of the various phases (plenary, teamwork) and prepared all the materials that were then used during the event, optimizing them according to the different kind of activities.We scribed live each session, to visually empower the ongoing conversation and to help the audience memorize key concepts clearly and effectively.

Zeta Service is the leader company in payroll and employment for businesses, continuously trying innovative solutions to distribute its services. Always paying attention to work dynamics and well-being, Zeta Service wanted to reflect upon the company’s future needs, to keep excelling in its field. We analyzed the company’s needs together, deciding who to engage in a collaborative workshop to discuss the firm’s present state and gather inputs on future possibilities. We designed a one-day workshop to talk about these topics and give the whole team a chance of sharing ideas.
Participants carried on a series of activities exploring metaphors to facilitate conversation and then applied this language to daily activities, closing with some recommendations. The workshop has been accompanied by the usual scribing to visualize conversations and keep track of ideas emerged, facilitated by our team in its different activities and interactions.

Manifattura Tabacchi brought together associations linked to the renewal of Parco delle Cascine, from those interested to the safeguard of the environment to those organizing events and concerts. They all worked on a shared vision of the possible development of the area on the occasion of the Many Possible Cities festival, the annual event discussing the future of cities, with a particular focus on Florence. We planned the afternoon work with MT, from the agenda and the activities aimed at putting in contact the participants and making them work together, to the selection of expectations and final objectives of the workshop. We then transformed the location into a safe space for participants to share their thoughts in plenary and plan next steps, both individually and in teams.

Ragù (Reti e Archivi del Gusto) is a research project that gathers handwritten cookbooks, starting from the end of WWII. The objective is to use recipes as a tool to illustrate time periods, cultures, relationships and traditions all over the world.
We designed the logo of Ragù, a round shape suggesting the idea of something that collects and holds, and adapted its coordinated image to different media: a presentation, printed materials, banners for exhibitions and places to collect recipes’ photos, social media and promotional materials. The logo has become the starting point of a series of illustrations guiding the narrative and the evolution of the project.

OpenZone is a scientific campus on the doorstep of Milan, entirely dedicated to health. The campus has been realized thanks to Zambon, an Italian pharmaceutical company. Among other things, we collaborate with them on OpenZone Talk, periodic meetings with the protagonists of innovation and with renowned experts of the scientific, economic and institutional world. OpenZone Talk’s sessions were usually held in the campus: due to the changes that we all had to adopt in Spring 2020, they asked us to rethink the format in a digital way.
A complete support for the event where we managed the flow of the webinar from start to finish (also thanks to our customizable My Event platform): we designed a digital GIF invite, a series of customized backdrops for the video conference and all the related visual collaterals. We also managed the oversight of the event, setting up the online platform, taking care of the interaction among participants and managing a series of live surveys.

The Education Department of Manifesta Biennial, at its 12th edition organised a 2-day meeting with case studies and interactive sessions. The purpose was to discuss a series of topics, such as the complexity faced in the specific context of the hosting city (Palermo, Italy) and Manifesta’s own methodology and identity.The result is the Education Map, a unifying visual representing the constellation of projects and activities, and their complexity across three levels: general Goals of the Department, projects of Manifesta 12, and challenges faced. We were also present at the meeting making live visual summaries of the case studies, workshops and conversations, highlighting critical questions and the learning lessons.