2026-07-10 –, Creativity Dome
An interactive journey through the history of the Internet using a yarn gifted to Tommi by their grandma. Together, we will travel in time to discover what shaped the Internet, and how decentralisation is key to save it, collectively!
We are building the decentralised web of the future, but how was it in the beginning? Who made it, and why? How did it degenerate in a handful of centralised platforms, and how can we make decentralisation cool again? Let’s learn from the past to knit the internet of the future.
Knitting Our Internet is an interactive journey through the history of the Internet, and a collective rethinking of its future.
It is a workshop that provides tangible and simple examples about how the Internet works, simultaneously questioning the very essence of today’s mainstream social networks. Its main purpose is to expose the critical limits of surveillance capitalism, centralisation, and its environmental impact.
After acknowledging the challenges the digital domain is currently facing, participants are encouraged to reinterpret social networks starting from decentralisation, envisioning more human, collective, and participatory digital futures.
Tommi Marmo is an pseudo-artist, tinkerer, activist, and community weaver who focuses on political technology, digital rights awareness, and data degrowth.
Tommi’s mission is to create bridges and connections, intertwining stories and experiences through inter-disciplinary activities that explore the most diverse topics. Their work spans several fronts, and they committed to different fights over time.
They are part of the DWeb Core Team as the Community Engagement Lead, and they are currently pursuing a master degree at XPUB in Rotterdam.
As a teenager, they were a speaker and chief editor at Radioimmaginaria. In 2019, they co-founded a local chapter of LIBERA, an Italian network of organizations fighting mafia through cultural and educational endeavours. In 2020, they invented and co-founded Scambi, the Festival of Paneurethic workshops, of which they are now the president. In 2023 they graduated summa cum laude in Philosophy, International Studies, and Economics with a thesis titled Computer Sciences Are Social Sciences. The workshop series Knitting Our Internet was born out of the research for their thesis.
Being a relentless enthusiastic and curious person, Tommi also worked with many and various organizations, including the DWeb Community, the Free Software Foundation Europe, Village One and Giffoni Film Festival. They were a scout chief, and they were a member of the Association of Internet Researchers, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, Banca Etica, and Club Tenco. They are the administrator of <cite>Pan</cite>, a Fediverse instance.
If there is any time left, or in case they can find some, Tommi contributes to Free Software projects, they play table-top role-playing games (TTRPGs), they cycle and they couchsurf around the planet.