Independent Researcher

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Architect, professor, cartoonist, guru of the yearly international independent comics festival Crack! fumetti dirompenti (http://crack.forteprenestino.net). Edits magazines and comic books collections.

Works in SCIATTO produzie group mixing comics experience to urban autonomous zones citizenship. Projects installations, stage design, performances and hypermedial settings (Praha/Festival 1990; GAEM/Biennal, Sarajevo-Rome 1998/99; Venice/Biennal, 2000; exposed in http://www.ecn.org/sciattoproduzie).

Contributes to the formation of the net in AvANa/BBS and Digital Roman Forum (1997, Rome Municipality). As interaction designer projects and animates multimedias for children (since 1997/99), like the one intended to uprise cultural and social integration of foreign childhood (Save the Children-Italy, CIES, 2006). His last production: 12 animated shorts (Current-Italia/GeekFiles, season-01/2009).

Visiting professor in several university courses and lectures (among them: symposium Children Books For a Better Future, Cairo Children Bookfair, 2003). Has taught Visual Perception and Communication (Architecture Faculty/Rome), Interaction and Interface Design, New Media Languages, Digital Animation. About these issues has written a book: Digital Animation (Rome 2002).

Specialties:
Communication strategies, Visual and narrative storytelling, Mass event conception and organization, Participate projecting, Autonomous zones citizenship, Visionary teaching.

main research interests:
Informal and nomad architecture, low-cost housing, installations and setting up, heterotopias and psycogeography, spatial practices and radical mapping, new media languages and net art, information and interface design, critical art  and networked collaborative creativity, storytelling, animation and comics .
 

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