The Open Laboratory is an initiative from the Innovation department that invites visitors of the Museum of Tomorrow to experience a working maker laboratory. Through hands-on workshops and gatherings, the proposal creates spaces for direct and accessible exchange, bringing together people with diverse backgrounds in relation to maker culture and contemporary debates. It is a space for co-creation where it is possible to engage with pressing topics and reflect on new forms of relationships mediated by technologies, understanding the laboratory not merely as a place of tools, but as a locus of collision and coalition of ideas, knowledge, and prototyping processes.
From this perspective, the Open Laboratory establishes itself as a territory of critical experimentation. By articulating technology and culture, the space proposes expanded readings of urgent issues of our time—such as artificial intelligence, the future of work, the ethics of creation, and the boundaries between what is collectively produced and what is artificially imposed by technical and economic systems. More than simply following trends, the Laboratory seeks to understand how these technologies affect bodies, territories, ways of life, and forms of social organization.
methodology
As a methodological axis, the program proposes to operate as a space of connection between specialists and creative communities, acting simultaneously as a meeting point, a platform for articulation, and a site of learning. In the initial stage, we hold conversations and conceptual exchanges focused on critical reflection, the sharing of experiences, and the expansion of perspectives, always in dialogue with the themes addressed by the museum and its curatorial framework. In the following stage, the public is invited to take part in processes of prototyping, experimentation, and collective creation, in which knowledge is built through practice, in dialogue with the specialists and artists involved in facilitating the workshops.
We believe that innovation emerges from dialogue, experimentation, and the activation of collective intelligences, oriented toward well-being and the construction of socially committed futures.
In this context, artists, scientists, educators, researchers, and diverse communities come together in collaborative processes that combine investigation, creation, and action. Prototyping becomes a political and pedagogical gesture: to test, fail, redo, imagine, and collectively learn other possibilities for the future. In this way, the Open Laboratory operates as a living platform for learning and invention, dedicated to thinking about technologies not merely as ends in themselves, but as means to build new forms of coexistence, care, and shared life in the present and in the future.
