Digital Making and Entrepreneurship. Imagine the Future

The contemporary dynamics of cultural, social, and economic change address us toward a global recall to a new educational design, which should be able to enhance and create new competencies for the worker and the citizen of the future. This paper proposes a reflexion on the innovations that characterize the ongoing transformation and on the challenges that educative institutions have to face. In particular, we will focus on some twists among possible educative scenarios, based on the digital making and focused on the entrepreneurship competence framework, always with a sight to the connections between technological innovation and education. The paper recalls the laboratories of digital fabrication as expression of a dynamic that put together the cultural technological characteristics and the technical development that take shape on the new social and instances. Within this frame, the paper presents some results of the research carried out by the National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research (INDIRE) within the 2014-2020 National Operational Programme Focusing on the development of the competencies to participate in the twenty-first century, the research analyzed ten case studies in the upper secondary school. This practice of teaching and learning is based on the increasing affordances of educational technologies combined with traditional science labs, and maximises the value and potential of digital culture by encouraging participation and creativity.