Every October, the Gazometro Ostiense fills —a former industrial gas plant in the south of Rome — with machines that did not exist the year before and rust, steel, and industrial memory. For three days, October 23–25, 2026, the 14th edition of Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition becomes a place where building is the explanation. Secondary school students present next to university spin-offs. Independent makers next to research labs. Nobody’s pitching, everyone’s showing. Why it matters? Showing a working prototype or running an interactive workshop in the MakeLab area to thousands of people who are actually there to engage with it — not to scroll past it, not to sit politely through a deck — is a specific kind of useful. The feedback is immediate. The audience is real. And sometimes the room changes what you build next.…