IF WE DESIGN LEONARDO' MACHINE IN 3D, CAN WE BETTER UNDERSTAND THE INCREDIBLE PATRIMONY HE INHERITED ?

With his innovative, engineering mind, passion for curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci had explored many areas of studies - inspiring artists, architects and engineers of all disciplines and industries (Aerospace & Defense, Transport & Mobility, High-Tech, AEC, Life Science, ...). He was able to look at the connection between multiple disciplines - combining Science with Art, Humanities with Technologies - was unique and key to his ability to invent.

The Open Innovation approach is bringing people from different background throughout the globe to share their knowledge. So if anyone can design Leonardo's machine in 3D, can we better understand the incredible patrimony he brought us?

The initiative has started in 2012 to reconstruct in 3D the machines. Even though most of them were genuine visionary creations, some would not be working properly in real life. By complementing the intelligence and vision of the human mind to modern software and hardware tools, we can have those strange machines come to virtual life and simulate their behavior! The bet at that time was to empower collective intelligence to gather passionates and designers through the social community and let them work together to achieve the goal. We had fantastic results over the time such those projects done during those challenges and have revealed talents and power makers.