Critical awareness
We explain what the tools do, where they stumble and when NOT to use them. No magic wands: understanding the trick is already half the superpower.
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Democratising AI.
Starting from the bar round the corner.
Technology is racing ahead, and the gap between those who can use it and those who simply put up with it keeps widening. The future could be bright or a techno-dystopia: it’s up to us. And the first step is awareness — something to build together, ideally over a good beer.
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Too rural to be city, too city to be countryside
Gaiofana sits on the edge of Rimini: close enough to see the future coming, peripheral enough to risk being left out of it. Gaiofana Geek exists to prevent exactly that.
We are a group of nerds inside Pro Loco Gaiofana APS. We build techy, creative and occasionally ridiculous things, but with a very serious concern underneath: if artificial intelligence remains something for the few, small and rural communities will end up enduring it instead of using it.
So we bring AI to people and contexts that usually stay outside the loop: curious elders, students, developers, sceptics, volunteers, people with simple questions that are often much smarter than the answers.
The goal is not to act like gurus. It is to build a community able to understand, question and use new technologies — and maybe become a model the rest of the municipality will want to copy.
Shared creativity
Generative AI, videogames, music, graphics, code. Technology is a wonderful excuse to build things together, even slightly absurd ones.
Nobody left out
From developers to elders at the bar, from students to professional sceptics. If you have a question, you are already in.
Local, but replicable
We start from Gaiofana because it is home. If it works here, with few services and plenty of social life to invent, it can work anywhere.
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The people behind the console
A non-profit crew with real technical skills, local roots and a healthy tolerance for ideas that initially sound unreasonable.
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Active experiments, others still compiling
We have a place, little budget and still no air conditioning. But we have already made things happen. And they work.
Gaiofana.it
The Pro Loco website is our first civic product: events, local activities and a digital community board. Small, concrete, useful. Proof that technology can serve a community without turning it into a soulless landing page.
gaiofana.itGaiofanhack
Our overnight videogame and vibe-coding jam inspired by the neighbourhood. The first 2025 edition brought together 4 active teams, one out-of-competition group and 14 hours of shared coding among laptops, late-night conversations and new connections — human ones too, not just Wi‑Fi. Next edition: 8 August 2026.
Sign up & details →AI Tinkerers Rimini / Gaiofana
We are an officially recognised part of the AI Tinkerers network: more technical meetups, often in English, for people actually building with AI and looking for no-fluff exchange. This is the lab side: fewer stage speeches, more prototypes, demos and dirty hands.
Guerrilla AI at the bar
Informal chats with people who often had not asked AI for anything — they may have just come to play cards. Then they discover how to use free tools to write, create images, understand a news item or amaze their grandkids. Mission accomplished.
Creative GenAI Lab
The next step: an open, ongoing space to experiment with generative AI, music, graphics, coding and strange-but-educational prototypes. A lab where failing in public is considered part of the method.
Neighbourhood digital resilience
A project still to be built: turning the Pro Loco headquarters in Via Montescudo 288 into a small tech outpost that can also help during emergencies. We are thinking of a MeshCore repeater, possibly solar-powered, and a few shared computers for people who do not have one. Today we have an old Mac running Linux and zero budget: for everything else we need sponsors, allies and hardware that deserves a second life.
Talks on mindful AI
Open conversations about artificial intelligence with no hype and no moral panic. What can it do? Where does it fail? Who decides? How much should we trust it? Awkward questions are welcome: the harder, the better.
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Turning Gaiofana into a small replicable model
We want to prove that even a peripheral place can become somewhere people understand, use and discuss technology before they are forced to endure it.
Annual creative festival
A showcase for projects born from jams, the lab and meetups: videogames, AI demos, sound experiments, civic prototypes and other things that are hard to explain to relatives.
Web radio & podcast
A local voice to tell stories of people, projects and ideas. Technology, yes, but with the mic on, feet on the ground and maybe someone dropping by to say hello.
A community that does not fall behind
The real goal: a Gaiofana able to use AI with curiosity and critical thinking. Not passive users, but citizens who know what they are doing.
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Got an idea? A question? A server to lend us?
If you want to join, propose a collaboration, bring a talk, support the lab or simply understand why we are teaching AI at the bar, drop us a line. Humans reply, usually after coffee.
@ Email us info@gaiofanageek.it