On June 21, 2024 the Polytechnic of Bari hosted the Minister of University and Research Anna Maria Bernini. The visit of the head of the MUR involved leading figures from the university and municipal spheres and offered a window of dialogue on sensitive issues that touch on research, the right to study, student housing and career prospects for PhD students and young researchers. The central theme of the discussion was the development of the university in the years to come, through the creation of structures and spaces that can accommodate everything that young students and researchers need to grow within the subjects STEMcurrently the driving sector of the world of work.
The Polytechnic of Bari can count on the in-depth study and research of STEM subjects FabLab Bitontowhich every day welcomes students of all ages for training courses to orient them within the digital world.
The minister’s visit was an opportunity for the FabLab to donate a small octopus in clay produced by 3D printing in LDM (Liquid Depositing Manufacturing), a particular technology that uses viscous or semi-fluid materials such as clay, cement or mixtures of earth and rice husk.
The team Fablab, led by the professor Nicholas Parisihas been carrying out experiments on this particular printing technology for a long time. The group of young researchers continues with the prototyping of small and large scale artefacts. In Bitonto, at the digital manufacturing center the boys study and they print furnishing objects with complex geometries inherent to the world of craftsmanship. In Matera, at the Center for Emerging Technologies (CTE), the prototyping of architectural scale artifacts has been underway for some years through the use of the 3MT printer produced by Wasp. In the coming months, the experiments in the Lucanian territory will see the creation of a architectural demonstrator designed by the architect Angelo Vito Graziano, which will be exhibited inside the garden of the CTE of Matera.
The experiments and research in the field of LDM technology carried out by the Bitonto digital manufacturing technology centre, support the FabLab Bitonto ai most important research centers in EuropeThe goal is to turn the world towards a new and, above all, sustainable architecture.
