Monthly Archive for December, 2010

The 2011 Design Conference delegates and plenary speakers will gather together for the conference dinner on Thursday, 3 February at the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, or the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO).

The MACRO, designed by Odile Decq, is Rome’s museum of contemporary art, constructed on the site of a former brewery. The space houses exhibition spaces, artworks storage, conference rooms, a library, and event and restaurant space. The first phase of the conversion of the MACRO was completed in 1999 with the restoration of the old plant design of the Peroni brewery, built in the early twentieth century on via Reggio Emilia, which has recently been expanded by the leading French architect Odile Decq. The new wing of the building, with the entrance at the corner of via Nizza and via Cagliari, creates a dynamic balance, integrating the new structure into the district, putting the museum in dialogue with the city, offering the visitors and Roman citizens both the new exhibition and urban spaces, such as the large terrace, the parking, the library and the restaurant. The New MACRO joins the spaces of the MACRO Testaccio and the Pelanda, inside the former slaughterhouse in Testaccio, to make this multifaceted cultural centre a Roman institution that aims to promote the value of contemporary Italian and international art.

To reserve your place at the dinner, or for more information, please visit the Activities & Extras webpage.

Gillian Crampton Smith, Graduate Program of Interaction Design at IUAV University in Venice, Italy, will join the 2011 Design Conference Plenary Speakers at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She’ll be presenting on ‘Interactions’ under the conference’s theme, Design: Useful & Futile, 2-4 February 2011.

Having studied philosophy and history of art at Cambridge University, Gillian Crampton Smith spent the 1970s as a designer – first in book publishing, then on the Sunday Times and Times Literary Supplement. In 1981, she designed and implemented a page layout program to help her with magazine design – an early desktop publishing application. This experience convinced her that artists and designers have an important role to play in creating information technologies.  More…

Stefano Giovannoni, an Industrial, Interior Designer and Architect based in Milan, joins the 2011 Design Conference Plenary Speakers at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation on ‘Products’ under the conference’s theme, Design: Useful & Futile, 2-4 February 2011.

Stefano Giovannoni was born in La Spezia, Italy and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Florence. Currently, he lives and works in Milan.

As an industrial designer he has collaborated with such companies as Alessi, Amore Pacific, Bisazza, Cedderoth, Deborah, Elica, Fiat, Hannstar, Hansemm, Helit, Henkel, Kddi, Kokuyo, Inda, Laufen, Lavazza, Lg Hausys, L’Oreal, Magis, Mikakuto, Moooi, Ntt Docomo, Oras, Oregon Scientific, Puig, Pulsar, Samsung, Seiko, Siemens, 3M, Telecom, Toto, Veneta Cucine. More…