Zoe Romano
Founder at ClothoTextile
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolZoe Romano is a Milan-based founder and digital strategist with a decade of hands-on experience at the intersection of open hardware, wearable tech, and social innovation. She co-founded WeMake makerspace and led digital strategy and wearables at Arduino, later launching projects like Openwear, Wefab.it and the ClothoTextile initiative to advance open-fashion and micro social enterprises. Her background in philosophy and media science informs a practiced focus on material and immaterial labor, alternative fashion systems, and participatory production models. Zoe blends activist roots—co-creating cultural actions like Serpica Naro and EuroMayDay—with structured EU-funded research and coordination (e.g., Centrinno). As a consultant she now shepherds international e-textile and digital manufacturing projects, translating creative experiments into scalable community-led programs. Unexpectedly, her career threads copywriting and social media strategy into technical innovation, giving her a rare mix of narrative, design and maker skills.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanMA, Scienza e Tecnologia dei Media, MA, Scienza e Tecnologia dei Media at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia
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