Open Science al Salone del Libro 2017 | Torino Scienza

From Google Translate: "The University of Turin, as part of the agreement signed with the Foundation for the book, music and culture, will be present at the Book Fair of Turin with a large exhibition space dedicated to the issues of science and its relationship with the book, studying and reading.

In the exhibition space called 'Open Science' will be exhibited tools that will tickle your mind, such as 'plethysmograph' used by Cesare Lombroso, a kind of lie detector, and 'Perottina' Olivetti, the first programmable machine desktop, and an early flight simulators.

The stand will be run by an interdisciplinary group of students trained with a workshop of 300 hours of Incubator for the Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship that started on March 22 and will be developed in 4 phases:

• Phase 1 - preparatory training;
• Phase 2 - designing the project work to bring to the salon;
• Phase 3 - the Project Management work in the days of the exhibition;
• Phase 4 - Analysis and expertise budget.

Students who attend the workshop will participate in the planning and management of the activities of the exhibition space 'Open Science', in which there will be an area where you can learn, and touch in the true sense of the word, thanks to the prototypes , scientific research of the university, while another space will be dedicated to the 'open' actually, the open source software systems to the sharing of knowledge and economy.

Meeting at the Book Fair May 18 to 22.

(10 April 2017)"