Matter’s life: speculative biodesign practices toward a new-mate- rialism.
with Annarita Bianco, (Ed. Gambardella et al) For Nature / With Nature: New Sustainable Design Scenarios. Springer Series, SSDI vol.38, 2024
P: The contribution investigates the theme of new materiality through the interference between two approaches: one theoretical and critical, the second one analytical and cartographic. Adopting an anti-dualistic and anti-hierarchical approach allows us to expand our vision beyond the human-centric viewpoint by recognising the intrinsic interdependence of humans and non-human entities. Such a paradigm shift leads to considering a different design strategy that benefits humans and the environment. In terms of technology, the confluence of a wide range of disciplines, such as biotechnology, material science, and digital computation, defines a hybrid territory in which synthetic and biological are being reshuffled. Through illustrated maps, the essay explores a range of philosophical theories, bio-designers, and research centres which reflect on the meaning of the matter to develop new productive metaphors. They serve as a register of knowledge for a new vision of materiality.

Poisoning Artificial Intelligence. Contemporary fashion and jewelry activism against surveillance.
with Bianco, A., La Marca, R., FHJ - Fashion Highlights Journal Vol.2. Firenze University Press, 2024
P: Over the past decade, the proliferation of electronic devices, wearables, and information technology has enabled the collection and extraction of vast amounts of personal and behavioral data, penetrating our physical nature until biological. We are witnessing the gradual transformation of data mining into life mining. The big data collected feeds machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence systems, which effectively implement real-time surveillance of our lives, mainly for commercial purposes. Starting from theoretical reflections on AI's human and non-human components, the essay identifies some projects by fashion and jewelry designers that subvert the ubiquitous surveillance system, acting concretely in specific processual and technological dynamics. By supporting a disruptive approach, the essay seeks to chart new spaces of design thinking that disobey or begin to question the prevailing logic involved in AI on our bodies.

Bioskins. Symbiotic bioplastics for design and fashion practices.
PHC The Plastic Heritage Congress, PHEA Press, 2024
P: The paper discusses bio-hacking practices applied to contemporary design and fashion aimed at an aesthetic and conscious exploration of DIY materials. Among the objectives emerge an unexpected form of ecological awareness and sensitization that see the designer as a catalytic agent for a more responsible view toward the use of materials. Crossing philosophical theories on the aesthetics of the Informe (Bataille,1974) and dark ecology (Morton), the paper illustrates some bioskins experiments conducted to offer new human-nature relations, observing bioplastics from a perspective of sustainability and continuous metamorphosis (Coccia, 2022). The research is based on a complex philosophical framework by identifying theoretical steps influencing various experiments. From a transdisciplinary perspective, between philosophy, design, and biology, the experimental practices adopted in the essay take the form of open and replicable study processes geared toward a new way of conceiving bioplastics fabrication. The conclusions illustrate the exposure of various bioskins to the public, opening further questions and aesthetic implications.

The Posthuman and the Destiny of Beauty | Postumano e destino della bellezza.
with P. Ranzo, Dune. Writings on Fashion, Design and Visual Culture, Vol. 004 n. 001, Biosphere, Flash Art Editions, 2023
The essay investigates the realms of the posthuman, in the contemporary environmental and new materialist sense, in terms of the deep connection between our postdigital corporeality and other types of existence. Interweaving philosophical theories and posthuman reflections, the culture of fashion is examined from the perspective of a new material aesthetics and a post-anthropocentric consciousness.
The essay looks at the destiny of beauty and the meaning that it takes on with respect to the technological transition and the determinism that the digital generates, culminating in its contemporary evolution, understood as meaning or injury.

Synesthetic Identities. Brain-computer interfaces as a tool for interactive visual landscapes.
with Piscitelli, D. Rosmino, In DIID Industrial Design Journal, n.81/2023
P: Synesthetic identities is part of a research study that looks at the landscape as a living organism, mutable and connected to a complex ecosystem of physical and immaterial elements. Starting with well-established theoretical principles, the paper describes an experiment conducted in 2021 using brain-computer interfaces to demonstrate how the visual landscape is not immutable, identical for everyone, and static in time. Instead, it strictly depends on the relationship estab- lished with the viewer and the interpolation of a series of vari- ables - sound, colour, and light - that influence perception. The outcome demonstrates how it is necessary to rethink visual landscapes by looking at them as plural, mutable systems, constantly reconfigured by the relationship with the human body, thus opening up new design possibilities in the field of visual design.

Objects, things, hyperobjects. A philosophical gaze on contemporary design.
Design Open! Parma University, Springer Design Series, 2023
P: Through an applied research project in the field of contemporary design, the essay identifies and illustrates the passage of three philosophical transitions: the idea of the object as a design project - first transition -, crosses over to the realm of the thing - second transition - until it reaches the notion of the hyperobject, - third transition - involving human and non-human entities. Through reclaiming for design the possibility of becoming a trigger for divergent thinking, the object acquires new human and dialogic qualities. The transition from the object-function to the object-thought transforms the meaning of the product to the extent that it is no longer a passive element of dialogical discourse but rather the triggering actor of that same process of confrontation. The last transition, to the hyperobject, is illustrated through a design experience at the boundary between these three value transitions. The hyperobjects designed have their primary meaning to interrogate and raise awareness around diverse relationships - with ecosystems, beyond the human - unhinging an outdated idea that sees the object forcibly relegated to the world of practical and tangible consumer commodity.

For a coexistence with the more-than-human: making biomaterials from a philosophical perspective.
with Francesca Valsecchi, Sustainability Journal n.15, 2023
P: The paper discusses the domain of DIY biomaterials applied to design, by analysing aims, speculative value and aesthetics emerging from this encounter. In a transdisciplinary perspective, the convergence of post-anthropocentric philosophies with systematic experiments in two different 9laboratories, placed in Italy and in China, demonstrates how design practices can contribute to new forms of human-nature relationships, highlighting a pluriverse way to understand life. Because of the dual approach of philosophical theories and hands-on experiments, biomaterials become tangible tools which change the very idea of “designed objects”: they assign to artefacts circular, living, and integrated properties, thereby placing them within the notion of an ecosystem. Nevertheless, beyond bio-based properties, the three most interesting qualities emerging from this theoretical-practical study are: 1) 1:1 scale of production, 2) organic-formless aesthetic, and 3) multi species awareness. We argue that through such a model of bio-production, the designer can assume the role of catalyst for a post-anthropocentric vision, dismantling the feeling of separation, alterity, and not-belonging between human and not-human, between objects and organisms.

Brain-computer interfaces and 3d design manufacturing in a postdigital scenario
with Patrizia Ranzo, Brain-Apparatus Communication: A Journal of Bacomics, Taylor&Francis, 2022
P: The paper resumes the results of seven-year experimental research between manufacturing processes of product design and the BCI - Brain–Computer Interfaces field, afferent to neuroscience. From analyzing a postdigital scenario and the emergence of a series of case studies, the essay proposes theoretical-applicative research that develops new cooperation between BCI and object-oriented 3d printing technologies. The essay then describes the rise in the last decade of a series of design experiences on the borderline between design and neuroscience, highlighting how these technological hybridizations can lead to the singularization of objects. The final part carries out its path of technological innovation into practice through the experimentation of two processes: Alpha and Flows.

Postdigital Fashion. Emerging paradigms for hybrid bodies
with Michela Musto, Convergencias Journal n.38, 2022
P: The Digital era ended bequeathing remarkable technological advancements and numerous queries related to the critical evolution between productive activities and the survival of human beings on planet Earth. In a scenario where the fashion industry is considered one of the relevant players, postdigital fashion emerge with interesting design strategies and fabrication tools that open up new possibilities for more equal and sustainable development.
To outline desirable future directions, the research PostDigital Manufacturing Processes. Body Hacking for Productive Systems has examined fifty designer cases studies. In these selected design studios, computational design, wearable technologies, biomaterials, and virtual interfaces are involved in redesigning the fashion role and the whole concept of the human body as a hybrid in the intersection between physical and digital realms.

Fashion-Oriented Bio Textiles. The New Speculative Aesthetics of Biocouture.
PAD - Pages on Arts and Design Journal n.22, 2022
P: The paper investigates some recent manufacturing processes of biohacking and synthetic biology applied to the fashion textile sector, comparing their laboratory practices, intentions and appearances. Among the most interesting aspects, new forms of awareness, intimately linked to the nature to which humankind belongs, emerge, pushing the designer to the role of a catalyst of a sustainable and multispecies vision. Through an analysis of case studies, the contribution finally reflects the rise of an aesthetic-sensorial paradigm: the formless. All biomaterials and dyes deriving from living organisms seem to relate to this aesthetic category since they lead to a different conception of shape, color, and substance. In contrast to a classical aesthetic perfection, biomaterials and bio textiles often reveal textures that are dotted, shaded, imperfect, antihierarchic, opaque, unpredictable, and for this reason, they shake the viewer, destabilizing him. The contribution aims to promote bio oriented practices connecting transdisciplinary knowledges to fascinating aesthetics for the consolidation of new fashion imagery.

Seven Bodies. Parametric design dialogues around the body
with Flavio Galdi. BAL Beyond All Limits Proceedings Conference, DADI Press 2022
P: The essay explores the possible horizons of fashion-oriented research from a perspective of technological manipulation of the body. Through an intense and critical dialogue series, the body's construction is projected on the border between tangible and virtual to rediscover new expressive possibilities.  Through a methodological practice-based research, the essay describes the phase of a project that involved seven international personalities in the fashion and design industry. The cycle of seminars, which lasted six months, was elaborated to have a direct dialogue with some of the most emblematic protagonists of the panorama related to fashion tech. The meetings contributed to the deepening of the project's themes by introducing new knowledge and technological processes. The second part of the essay illustrates a parametric study aimed at the definition of seven animations dedicated to each lecture. The seven animations, executed through the software Grasshopper, accompany the different dialogues intended as different perspectives around the digital body.

Post Digital Design. Scenari e processi postdigitali per la moda e il design contemporaneo
with Patrizia Ranzo, SID Italian Design Society - Design per Connettere 2022
P: Post Digital Manufacturing Processes, finanziato nell’ambito del Programma Valere dell’Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, si configura come un progetto dalla natura teorico-applicativa avente come fine la sperimentazione industriale di tecnologie digitali avanzate al confine tra design, tecnologia e corpo. La ricerca si divide in due macrofasi: Design andPrototyping e OpenWorkshops and Testing. Attraverso pratiche di biohacking, la prima fase sperimenta processi manifatturieri, ibridando tecnologie digitali come la stampa 3D, le Brain Computer Interfaces, il face tracking, i dati biometrici. La seconda fase coinvolge, invece,stakeholder e cittadini in un processo di sensibilizzazione scientifica, attraverso l'interazione diretta con gli artefatti realizzati e nella generazione di nuovi output, finalizzati all’innesco di ulteriori riflessioni.

Il Sistema Moda in Campania: un progetto innovativo per la valorizzazione dell’identità
e del patrimonio culturale della Moda regionale
with Patrizia Ranzo, Giulia Scalera. SID Italian Design Society - Design per Connettere 2022
P: La ricerca “Analisi critica e linee strategiche per il potenziamento del sistema moda in Campania”, coordinata dall’Università degli Studi degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli in collaborazione con i cinque Atenei regionali, ha avuto l’obiettivo di promuovere il patrimonio culturale campano della moda e del design, attraverso lo sviluppo di strategie innovative utili a guidare la Regione Campania alla comprensione e alla valorizzazione della filiera fashion-oriented. Tra i diversi risultati della ricerca, il paper illustra la progettazione dell’organismo regionale e del brand modec – Moda e Design in Campania, il cui scopo è sostenere e promuovere le imprese, il tessuto produttivo e il capitale umano territoriale; e la sezione “Archivi Viventi”, un archivio digitale
sul capitale umano d’eccellenza, della piattaforma digitale Fashion Open Book caratterizzata da una mappatura delle imprese e del patrimonio monumentale e produttivo di settore. 

Pluriverse Skins. DIY bio production for a post-anthropocentric coexistence.
with Francesca Valsecchi. DIID Industrial Design Journal n.75, 2021
P: By developing practice-based research, through critical and speculative design methodologies, we propose a definition of “skin” not as a univocal boundary of subjective bodies (animal, plants, or other creatures), but as a pluriverse membrane of connection across and between species. Deeply inspired by holistic and posthuman philosophical approaches (such as Braidotti, Pannikar, Escobar, Coccia), the ongoing research feeds such a definition of “pluriverse skins” by experiments on bio-media and the relative speculative scenarios. Pluriverse Skins offers an alternative look into bio- materials, by the means of practical and speculative investigation: in the paper we discuss how such an approach could contribute to reshaping the meaning of bio production, within the emerging post-anthropocentric paradigm.

Archivi Viventi. Storie di vita e di eccellenza.
Laboratorio Campania. Paesaggi culturali e produttivi della moda. Curated by Patrizia Ranzo et Al. AltraLinea, 2021
C: La sezione progettuale degli Archivi Viventi è caratterizzata da un insieme di metodologie trasversali e ricerche connesse, aventi come obiettivo la riscoperta e rivalorizzazione delle più antiche e radicate manifatture produttive della moda campana. Attraverso un’intesa attività di dialogo e reportage che raccoglie le testimonianze orali rilasciate dai maestri del saper fare campano, gli Archivi Viventi si materializzano in un corpus di interviste, reportage fotografici e studi di approfondimento sulle singole manifatture, analizzate sia come memoria storica che come realtà concreta e persistente. I quattordici maestri individuati sul territorio campano operano nei più svariati settori: dal tessile all’abbigliamento, dal settore conciario al calzaturiero, dalla gioielleria al corallo, fino alla costumistica teatrale. La ricerca ha avuto l’intento di raccogliere, catalogare, descrivere e, infine, valorizzare le eccellenze in un’ottica di sostenibilità sociale e ambientale, attraverso la consapevolezza che l’autenticità locale possa essere una leva strategica per la competitività globale.

7 BODIES. Generative, Political Emotive, Techno, Performing, Prosthetic, Inner. 
with Patrizia Ranzo. Cycle of 7 International Open Lectures within the project "Postdigital Manufacturing Processes. Body Hacking" funded by the "Valere Programme". Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania "Vanvitelli". 12/2020-02/2021
LECTURES CYCLE: The Seven Open Lecures have investigated the post-digital topic from a philosophical and design perspective, in relation to the body. Guests Speakers: Filippo Nassetti (UK), Giovanni Innella (QA), Anouk Wipprecht (USA), Tiffany Trenda (USA), Benhaz Farahi (USA), Francesca Lanzavecchia (IT-MA), Chiaralice Rizzi and OhMyBlue Gallery (IT). 

Post Digital Jewellery. The future scenarios of contemporary jewelry design.
Spirit of Luxury and Design. A perspective from Contemporary Fashion and Jewellery, New York: ORO Editions, 2021
C: Contemporary jewellery concerns the creation of thought able to stimulate the mind and produce knowledge. In light of this, the international debate on jewelry-making production requires new perspectives, focused at deepening the design role in the digital age. Industry 4.0 is widespread and affordable while contemporary project culture interfaces with digitalization in an increasingly integrated and inclusive way. The essay analyzes a series of case studies that highlight a renewed relationship between design and technology. Several examples arise also from the transversal use of processes and post digital productions related to sectors other than the world of jewelry, such as medicine or engineering. This typology of disruptive design often investigates a wider spectrum of themes, including material experimentation or the political, sustainable and ethical issues that affect today's society.

Crafting Ecosystems with data. The value of design in the emergency-driven scenarios. 
with Francesco Dell'Aglio and Enza Migliore. Design Cultures - New Normal, Cumulus Roma Conference 2021.
P: During the Covid-19 emergency of 2020, the Information system, governed by data- flows, proved to be one of the most overwhelming and uncontrolled phenomena. In this scenario, the essay presents a critical analysis, highlighting urgencies and opportunities for the design discipline to define its substantial and meaningful role in the Information Age. The experimental project Crafting Ecosystems is a proposal of a new design-led scenario for the Information. The goal is to offer a different kind of public Information based on empathy and awareness, focused on the restoration of a balance between natural and artificial, translated into tangible actions, replies to emergency circumstances. The final project is an interactive invitation to observe reality in an integrated way and realize how emergencies inevitably depend on the interconnected balance between all living beings.

From the product to the object. The speculative design practice as instance.
Design Cultures - Revolution, Cumulus Roma Conference 2021.
P: Switching from the function-object to the speculative-object transforms the meaning of the object, in so far as it is no longer a passive element of the discourse, but the triggering actor of an embodied reflexive process. In this perspective, the object transforms itself, from a functioning commodity to an open minded "thing" full of meaning. (Bodei, 2009). Understanding it as a device of thought, the speculative-object, becomes the narrating subject for a cultural reflection on humankind and it definitively changes its ontological status. (Harman, 2018). It imposes itself as a cognitive trigger of emancipation compared to a predeterminated thought, toward a deconstructive logic that does not give absolute solutions. In this context, the designer transforms himself from the one who solves problems (problem solver) to the one who identifies problems (problem-finder), through an investigative approach oriented towards evolving scenarios. Technology and materials are not only used for an aesthetic or functional optimization of the object, but they themselves are an instrument of knowledge, capable of establishing a new mental relationship with the human beings. Speculative objects, therefore, connect subject and thought and the more they exhort a disruptive vision, the more they demonstrate their intrinsic capacity to produce a change.

The Contemporary Jewelry Perspective. Meanings and evolutions of a necessary practice.
Journal of Jewellery Research – Loughborough University / Northumbria University. Volume 04-2021.
P: Following the instances of contemporaneity, the objects move in a multi-faceted direction, aimed at asking questions and expressing concepts.  These changes give rise to hybridize sectors and new expressive possibilities towards an increasingly demanding design culture, which also changes the world of jewellery. In the jewel case, where "its uselessness constitutes its immense wealth and uniqueness" (Perniola, 1994), the issue becomes complex since its existence is related mainly to a series of functions that are not practical, but communicative and identifiable as intimately useful. It is not just a matter of embellishing people through decoration, but of incorporating immaterial values, first of all, creating a thought capable of stimulating the mind and producing knowledge.

La natura riflessiva del gioiello contemporaneo: un approccio practice-based.
Gemme e Gioielli, Storia e Design. Issue Dadi Press, UniCampania, 2021.
P: Attraverso una serie di fotografie dove gioielli autoprodotti si mescolano a moodboards e autoritratti, il contributo prova a mettere in luce l’approccio riflessivo practice-based sperimentato nell’ambito del Laboratorio Moda 2 della Laurea Triennale in Design per la Moda. Qui, gli ornamenti costruiti - ed esposti alla fine del percorso didattico - vengono sovrapposti alle immagini che li hanno generati e guidati, secondo un rinnovato rapporto tra pensiero, cultura visiva e materia. L’indagine ha avuto come obiettivo l’analisi critica e l’ibridazione tra materiali, tecniche e concept biografici, orientati a una nuova idea di gioielleria contemporanea, al confine tra design e arte. Le diverse visioni e sensibilità materiche hanno fatto si che ciascun oggetto potesse essere costruito secondo una prospettiva del tutto personale e attraverso un brief unico legato al tema del SelfPortrait. I materiali impiegati - pietre, legno, resine, tessuti, plastiche, sostanze organiche - sono stati combinati a metalli poveri o preziosi quali argento, ottone, rame, alluminio, includendo di volta in volta processi afferenti settori lontani dal mondo dell’oreficeria.

BioFabricated. Tre processi di biohacking orientati al design e alla moda sostenibile. 
with Mala Siamptani and Giulia Scalera. SID Italian Design Society - Design per Connettere Conference 2021
P: Biofabricated mira alla sperimentazione applicativa di tecnologie ibridanti al confine tra fashion and design products, processi manifatturieri e biologia. Muovendosi in una visione transdisciplinare che mette in relazione competenze scientifiche eterogenee, il Progetto indaga la fattibilità di sistemi produttivi avanzati che combinano tecniche di biohacking e DIYmaterials con una progettualitàcircolare e innovativa. La proposta prevede la sperimentazione di tre processi di biofabbricazione - Microbial Skins, Plantae 3D Craft, BioDyeing Bacteria - attraverso l’utilizzo di organismi viventi, materiali organici, tecnologie e strumentazioni digitali. L’obiettivo è quello di verificare e promuovere una nuova industria sostenibile, attivando pratiche laboratoriali in grado di costruireprocessi volti a nuove sensorialità estetiche e materiche. Attraverso una piattaforma comunicativa in open access e diverse attività di disseminazione abilitanti, Biofabricated coinvolge, infine, i cittadini, per rinsaldarne in maniera più consapevole le relazioni ecosistemiche.

Oggetti Pensiero. Storie di Design, Organismi e Nature Postdigitali. 
Siracusa: LetteraVentidue, 2020
MONOGRAPHY: Oggetti Pensiero è un libro che condensa due azioni: il pensare e il fare. In un’ottica neoumanista, le istanze della contemporaneità vengono prese in esame attraverso una riappropriazione dei concetti di tecnica e materia, intesi come strumenti di speculazione sensibile del progetto. Dall’incontro tra saperi tecno- scientifici e umanistico-artistici nascono nuove connessioni tra organismo e macchina, uomo e ambiente, esseri umani, oggetti e piante. Grazie ad una serie di esperienze collaborative, i processi progettuali raccolti nella seconda parte del libro - in forma di oggetti - definiscono tre ambiti di ricerca: corpi postdigitali, bioindustrie, nature artificiali. 

The value of design practices in scientific research: 5 paradoxes.
with Giovanni Innella. DIID Industrial Design Journal - PRACTICES n.72. Barcelona: ListLab. 2020. 
P: The questions that guide this article are essential to understand what the limits of academic commitment can be, and consequently their impact on the design practice. Basically, one wonders why being a researcher in Italy means giving up being an active design practitioner? Is it possible to build a career in design research without being able to consistently and directly engage with the world of practice? Through the use of paradox – adopted as a linguistic expedient to contrast opposing situations, identified in our experience as research-designers – this contribution tries to highlight the indispensable complementarity between theoretical and practical research, with the aim of a more effective integration between these two essential aspects of design.

Napoli e "Il silenzio della ragione”. Dieci anni di resilienza e progettazione contemporanea.
Napoli Design Impermanente. Curated by Claudio Gambardella, Napoli: Guida Editori. 2020
C: Napoli, uno dei centri culturali più rappresentativi dell’area mediterranea. Uno spazio mentale, più che geografico, intriso da una cultura animista e arcaica, nutrito dall’amore degli intellettuali, artisti e creativi che per scelta ne popolano i vicoli, tra luci, ombre, storie, profumi. Un ventre materno - quello descritto da Annamaria Ortese nel racconto Il silenzio della ragione - la cui natura accoglie e respinge “Esiste, nelle estreme e più lucenti terre del Sud, un ministero nascosto per la difesa della natura dalla ragione; un genio materno, d'illimitata potenza, alla cui cura gelosa e perpetua è affidato il sonno in cui dormono quelle popolazioni. Se solo un attimo quella difesa si allentasse, se le voci dolci e fredde della ragione umana potessero penetrare quella natura, essa ne rimarrebbe fulminata.” (Ortese, 1953)

Gli sconfinamenti di Ugo La Pietra.
Recensione in ABITARE Web. "Argomenti per un dizionario del design italiano". di Ugo La Pietra, Macerata: Quodlibet. 2020
P: Dalle arti applicate al disegno industriale e architettonico, la dimensione della ricerca di cui La Pietra si fa portavoce è quella degli sconfinamenti e dei “travasi” che avvengono mediante modalità anti-settoriali e sinestetiche. Dicotomie come artigianato e industria, manualità e tecnologia, designer e azienda vengono esaminate da La Pietra sempre con lo stesso sguardo antropologico, profondamente umanista. Poiché mettendo in luce la bellezza del genius loci italiano, “i valori si celano in ogni città, paese, piazza, strada… e nascono dall’osservazione di ciò che da sempre rappresenta il valore più grande dell’umanità e del suo rapporto con la realtà che la circonda: la diversità”.

La fugace bellezza dell’arte involontaria. Per chi sa osservare.
Recensione in Officina n.30 "Breve trattato sull’arte involontaria". di Gille Clément. Macerata: Quodlibet. 2020
P: Il volume raccoglie una selezione di immagini paesaggistiche che da più di vent’anni hanno incontrato lo sguardo, del tutto singolare, di Gille Clément. Si tratta di attimi rarefatti, impressioni irripetibili, che il noto scrittore, architetto e docente dell'Ecole National du Paysage a Versaille, ha collezionato da tutto il mondo, e descritto, come una sorta di gioco iniziatico per il lettore, attraverso narrazioni visionarie e poetiche, accompagnate da fotografie e disegni. Il tratto di Clément, rigorosamente in bianco e nero, è frantumato, leggerissimo, e restituisce grande valore allo spazio dei vuoti e a quei dettagli preziosi che, sparsi nell’ambiente, catturano la sua attenzione. La sensazione di transitorietà che emerge dai paesaggi evocati ne costituisce la bellezza, nella fugacità della loro esistenza, del tutto decretata da chi li osserva.

Singular Multiples. Contemporary Jewellery Beyond The Digital.
Barcelona: ListLab, 2019
Promoted by AGC - Association of Contemporary Jewellery | Preface of GianCarlo Montebello
MONOGRAPHY: The book opens a design perspective to jewellery that is designed for both tangible and intellectual consumption, because it expands its meanings to a wider spectrum of themes and goals, such as sustainability, material and technological innovation, political and social issues that concern contemporaneity. From digital to post-digital, mixing atoms and bits, even jewellery design builds new scenarios, where innovative software, 3D scanners, manipulations of materials and cross-disciplinary contaminations expand the boundaries of research. 

Essere designer: ruoli e dinamiche al confine con l’arte.
Op.Cit. Rivista n.166. Selezione della critica d'arte contemporanea, 2019
P: L’arte e il design sono da sempre in una relazione complicata. Nell’affrontare le istanze trasversali alla contemporaneità, quali ad esempio la sostenibilità ambientale, il dibattito politico, le emergenze sociali, il rapporto con le nuove tecnologie, designer e artisti, in ugual misura, sono intenti a immaginare progetti intesi come dispositivi culturali. Le affinità si evincono in più elementi della loro pratica oltre che nella scelta dei temi d’interesse: nei materiali - ibridi, reinventati, organici o digitali - nelle tecniche manifatturiere - industriali e artigianali insieme - nella comunicazione del progetto stesso e nella sua diffusione. In questi casi, il racconto del processo è importante quanto il risultato finale: i lavori sono accompagnati da testi critici, fotografie di work in progress e scenari interpretativi, che ne svelano le complessità e ne dimostrano la singolarità. Una singolarità che è indissolubilmente legata alla visione del singolo autore.

Unhabitus. Form-azioni Rigenerative.
A cura di M. Marciano - Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, in collaborazione con il Teatro San Carlo, 2019
C: Il Catalogo presenta testi e collezioni di gioielli realizzati dagli studenti del Corso, attraverso il recupero virtuoso di frammenti e scarti tessili derivanti dalla Sartoria del Teatro San Carlo. Il risultato è un corpus di oggetti diviso in dieci capsule collections, disegnate e realizzate da ciascun allievo attraverso un approfondito studio metodologico e laboratoriale. L’intento della ricerca è finalizzato ad un’apertura del settore del gioiello fashion oriented attraverso l’elaborazione di nuove estetiche, significati e ibridazioni, a favore di una concezione di ornamento prezioso inteso come statement.

La profondità dell'ornamento. Il gioiello contemporaneo come dispositivo relazionale.
Design Actually, DIID Industrial Design Journal 62-63/2019 
P: Il dibattito sull’ornamento è stato al centro di tutto il Novecento, da Loos a Morris, da Bloch a Maldonado fino alla contemporaneità. Nel caso del gioiello, oggetto per eccellenza dove “è stata proprio la sua inutilità a costituirne l’immensa ricchezza e unicità” (Perniola, 1994), la questione si fa particolarmente complessa, poiché la sua esistenza è legata principalmente ad una serie di funzionalità non pratiche, ma comunicative e identificabili come utilità vere e proprie. Nel gioiello, l’ornamento si trasforma in essenza del progetto, poiché superficie e struttura coesistono intrinsecamente in un’idea unitaria. 

Sustainable design and aesthetics in the soft science age.
with Francesca La Rocca. Third LEnS World Distributed Conference. Design Sustainability for All, Milan 2019
P: The research analyses the new aesthetic sensibility that arises with sustainable project, in order to answer more specifically the following questions: what influence does the culture of sustainability have on the aesthetics of contemporary design? What are the future directions of the design project in relation to the possible declinations of the relationship between ecology/aesthetics/technology? The contribution investigates the relationship between sustainable design, aesthetics and technological imagery, to arrive at a critical analysis of a series of design aesthetics in a context such as Anthropocene.

Il Bauhaus? Fu anche un metodo.
Recensione in Abitare Web "The ABC’s of (Triangle, Square, Circle): The Bauhaus and Design Theory". di Ellen Lupton, J. Abbott Miller. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 2019
P: The ABC’s of (Triangle, Square, Circle): The Bauhaus and Design Theory è innanzitutto un libro-progetto. Il volume presenta un taglio fortemente sperimentale poiché ibrida testo scritto e progetto grafico, attraverso l’adozione di impaginati fluidi e destrutturati, che di volta in volta accompagnano i contenuti di ciascun saggio. Con quest’operazione, i concetti espressi dai testi prendono forma visiva immediata, conducendo il lettore – studioso o progettista – all’interno del metodo Bauhaus. Attraverso la presentazione di testi, layout e schemi grafici il libro esibisce una lettura parallela dell’esperienza della Scuola mettendo in evidenza le strette connessioni tra linguaggio estetico, periodo storico e intento progettuale.

Material Effects. An imaginary dialogue with V. Frankenstein
Material Effects. Experiments, Photographs, Designs. International Marianne Brandt Contest. Catalogue curated by Linda Pense | Villa Arte e.V. Chemnitz Publisher, 2018
C: “May material live? May human beings, animals and plants be materials, or only lifeless material and formerly living material, now dead for a sufficient time, like limestone, coal or a wooden board? “ The possibilities offered by the recent technologies to develop living materials evolve according to their own nature, together with a series of pilot experiments in the field of DIY biology. These considerations trigger an imaginary dialogue with Doctor Victor Frankenstein (Shelley M., 1818), between past and future, about the experimental approach of the lab and a new kind of living, productive horizon.

Multipli Singolari. Il gioiello contemporaneo oltre il digitale.
Trento: ListLab, 2018
Promosso da AGC - Associazione Gioielleria Contemporanea | Prefazione GianCarlo Montebello
MONOGRAPHY: La ricerca apre una prospettiva progettuale ad un gioiello pensato per un consumo non solo tangibile ma intellettuale, poiché dilata i suoi significati a un più ampio spettro di temi e finalità, come la sostenibilità, l’innovazione materico-tecnologica, le problematiche di natura politica e sociale che interessano la contemporaneità. Dal digitale al postdigitale, mescolando atomi e bits, anche il design del gioiello costruisce inediti scenari, dove software innovativi, scanner 3D, manipolazioni di materiali e contaminazioni transdisciplinari espandono i confini della ricerca.

Inventions, interactions, bodies. DIID n. 65 Industrial Design Journal - Design as Inventor.
Barcelona: ListLab, 2018
P: Neodigital bodies that overcome the logic of nature, wearable technologies that increase certain physical abilities, products that foreshadow possible futures by going beyond limits or barriers: the inventive thinking adopts the body as a medium for its radical exploration. (...) In returning to physical matter and the importance of our corporeity, one of the most interesting scenarios is the adoption of the individual as a singular point of departure and arrival of the object. Because the human being is at the centre of technology not only as the final destination, but as an actor in the construction of his process and of his reciprocal relationship. Keywords: neo digital bodies / innovative skins / boundary conditions.

Contemporary jewelry in the Antropocene era. A dialogue across the Present to reinvent the Future.
Triple Parade. International Contemporary Jewellery Biennal. 2018
C: Contemporary Jewelry is at a turning point. It is no longer possible to think of jewelry exclusively as a luxury item, linked only to the preciousness of the materials and techniques. In an era where every product has already been consumed, produced and distributed globally, jewelry design discipline is faced with a more difficult and complex challenge.  This paper is an attempt to investigate the new scenarios and question marks of the jewelry project, in order to rediscover a new possibility that has this powerful device of the body to communicate, provoke, declare a thought, through the act of wearing and in relation to the other.

Design for Anthropocene. Philosophies and project scenarios in contemporary design
DIGICULT Journal, 2018
C: In light of irrepressible technological acceleration and industrialization that has now overwhelmed the relational logic between man and nature, it is necessary to reflect on how Design can interact with these phenomena. “Our technologies must be able, in order to survive, to face the aesthetic and spiritual dimension, which is the most sophisticated of all, but the only one able to guarantee the political survival of our system” (Branzi, 2005). In this way, perhaps, it will be possible to construct a real ecosophist design, able to address man and the environment in an anti-anarchist manner, with the positive transformation of the current state of things. 

Hyle_Dialoghi transdisciplinari sul Design. Un progetto curatoriale sul design contemporaneo legato al territorio
con F.Dell'Aglio e E.Migliore. Material Design  Journal n.5 | Design e Territori. 2018
P: Il progetto curatoriale Hyle_dialoghi transdisciplinari sul design è un’indagine sulla pratiche ed espressioni del design contemporaneo nella città di Napoli mirata all’elaborazione di una visione progettuale come modello per la divulgazione di una consapevolezza delle potenzialità culturali e produttive locali. L’esplorazione è stata condotta attraverso un approccio di Research through Design, basato sull’elaborazione di un corpus di artefatti che, tramite la loro espressione materica e in riferimento ai processi coinvolti, raccontassero l’identità delle pratiche progettuali come una sorta di manifesto. I risultati sono stati presentati tramite una mostra e un catalogo a cura di F. Dell'Aglio, E. Migliore, C. Scarpitti  presso il Riot Studio, Napoli.

Sul metodo: un’indagine laboratoriale tra design e biologia
SID Società Italiana di Design - Design su Misura, Atti Conferenza, 2018
P: Il contributo illustra alcune delle metodologie del design making, attraverso un’indagine laboratoriale che usa, come strumenti della ricerca, le attrezzature e i materiali affini al settore scientifico della biologia. Al confine tra programma e imprevisto, metodologia e libera sperimentazione, il design non si preoccupa solo di realizzare oggetti finiti e industrializzabili, ma esplora mondi, inventando pratiche di progettazione condivisa e nuove manipolazioni della materia. Le possibilità offerte dalle più recenti tecnologie di lavorare con organismi in grado di evolversi secondo una propria natura, insieme a una serie di sperimentazioni pilota nel campo della biologia sintetica e della medicina rigenerativa, conducono a nuove frontiere finora considerate inesplorabili. L’esito della ricerca ha condotto all’elaborazione di protocolli produttivi al confine tra tecniche di 3Dprinting e bioprinting, attraverso l’adozione di organismi viventi come funghi, muschi, cellulosa microbica.

The value of the scrap objects in design.
con F. La Rocca.                  
Beyond All Limits. International Congress on Sustainability, Ankara, Turkey. 2018
P: The paper presented describes an action-research about the concept of re-design, re-use, reinterpretation of the materials, productive processes and digital technologies in the scrap objects. Starting from a reflection on the anthropological meanings of the objects, about their materials and functions, the activities suggested are an attemp to reinvent them, throught a strong contemporary design perspective. The methods concern mappings, co-design activities, transnational meetings, in order to achieve transdisciplinary workshop, design and art productions, open talks and travelling exhibitions.The philosophy of the re-use doesn't merely involve retrieving objects, but it also gives new life to the material culture, which can stimulate collaborative behaviours. The research starts with a reflection on the thinking paths that guide relationships with the objects, throught a new sensitivity to the reinterpretation of the obsolete and discarded object toward an ecological, and artistic value (Fuad-Luke, 2003).

New visions in the manufacturing design. Jewels as Multiples
SIM Conference - Green Design, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2013
P: Jewels as Multiples is a research project that was founded in 2011 by a cultural need of AGC - Association of Contemporary Jewelry - to build a bridge with ADI - Industrial Design Association - and the world of Italian manufacturing industry. Focus of the project is the theme of seriality and of new production systems and the analysis of the collaborative possibilities between designers and companies. The project involved many figures of Italian jewelry design and organized numerous activities in several Italian cities, such as Bologna, Naples, Milan, Vicenza, Trieste. Its ultimate goal is the promotion of a new way to design, focused on technologies and manufa-cturing processes through a collective effort. 

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