Independent Researcher

About

I am an electronic artist, teacher and sociologist.

In 2001 I was a founding member of the Milan-based experimental collective otolab with whom I investigate visual dramaturgic representation of sound. I teach theories, methodologies and tecniques of the audiovisual performance at NABA in Milan and in several other seminars, workshops and courses around Italy.

I hold a PhD in Urban European Studies at the University of Miano-Bicocca (UNIMIB); my research in urban sociology investigates the relationships among city, creative economy and social innovation processes, with a special focus on artists co-optation in post-fordist economies. As a sociologist I held several graduate and post-graduate courses in methodology, sociology of culture, urban sociology and new technologies for social sciences.

In 2009-2010 I was a post-doc researcher at the University of Milan (UNIMI) and I worked on the EU projects EDUFASHION and Openwear, dealing with P2P economies, crowdsourcing and fashion. This is still one of my main research interests and it's the reason why I'm a member of the Foundation for Peer-to-peer Alternatives.

Now I am a free-lance researcher, teacher and consultant. I continue to collaborate with Milano-Bicocca and Milano-Statale, and at the same time I'm helping culture-related non-profits organizations to plan their social network strategies and to develop digital innovation processes. It's in this framework that I'm collaborating with the Center for Digital Ethnography.

I am still researching and writing about the social consequences of the undergoing transformations related to the city, cultural economies, DIY 2.0, desktop manufacturing, network economies and bottom-up innovation.