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EDUCATION

MA Conceptual Design in Context (IM). Design Academy Eindhoven, NL (2008-2010)Training in Microbiology. Microbiology department, Prof. Han Wosten, Utrecht University, NL (2010-present)MSc Engineering and Industrial Management. Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, IT (2000-2006)Liceo Scientifico A. Righi. Cesena, IT (1995-2000)

WORK

Designer & Design Consultant. Freelance @WNDRLUST. (2013-Present)Design & Research Fellow. Fellow @Waag Society, Amsterdam. (2013-Present)Designer & Design Research. Freelance @Officina Corpuscoli. (2010-Present)Teacher. Freelance @WdKA - Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam. (2014-Present)Mediamatic Foundation. Research, concept design, curation, instructor. Freelance. (January 2013-present)Mediamatic Foundation. Research, concept design, curation. Temporary employee. (June-December 2012)

AWARDS

Designers & Artists for Genomics Award 2010. Netherlands Genomics Initiative, Centre for Society and Genomics and Waag Society.NWO Grant for the Creative Industry (2014-2016) CLICK Network programs - Mycelium Design, in collaboration with Stichting Mediamatic and Utrecht University.

EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS

Design Destinations. MAXXI - Rome, IT, May 2014 (upcoming) Buitenplaats Beeckestijn. Stolenparade - Velsen, NL, March 2014 (upcoming)Biobased Wunderkammer. Dutch Design Week - Eindhoven, NL. October 2013Linking Parts. Transnatural Gallery - Amsterdam, NL. September 2013 - January 2014Discovery Festival. Yksi Space, Strijp-s - Eindhoven, NL. September 2013Story of Innovation. King Abdulaziz Center for world Culture - Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. June 2013-presentO’Clock. CAFA Art Museum - Beijing, China. March 2013-April 2013Route 10/66. Artemis Dutch Design Hotel - Amsterdam, NL. June 2012-September 2012The Machine. Save as Mine - Genk, BE. June 2012-October 2012Steinbeisser. CYCLES, Lloyd Hotel - Amsterdam, NL. May 2012-presentUtrecht Manifest. Het Nieuwe Werklandschap - Utrecht, NL. May 2012-July 2012Dutch Invertuals. Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012 - Milan, IT. April 2012Valkenburg / Plenkertstraat. Marres Projects - Valkenburg, NL. December 2011.Paddestoelen Paradijs. Mediamatic - Amsterdam, NL. December 2011-December 2012O’Clock. Triennale Design Museum - Milan, IT. October 2011-January 2012iFabric.European Talent. Audax Textiel Museum - Tilburg, NL. September 2011-January 2012DA4GA. Naturalis - Leiden, NL. June 2011-January 2012THIS WAY. Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2011 - Milan, IT. April 2011SUPERORGANISM. Nova Art Gallery - Eindhoven, NL. October 2011Graduation Galleries. Design Academy Eindhoven - Eindhoven, NL. October 2010Master’s Exhibition. Design Academy Eindhoven - Eindhoven, NL. June 2010Textile Messaging. Lumalive, Philips Design, Lloyd Hotel - Eindhoven, NL. May 2009-July 2009The Great Indoors. The Great Indoors 2009 - Maastricht, NL. December 2009

Mailing address: Witte de Withstraat 108 hs 1057 ZG AmsterdamThe Netherlands

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PUBLIC LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

NexTo BIO-LOGIC workshop series. with Waag Society, Co-de-iT, WASP - Amsterdam, NL. January 2014 (ongoing)Archipel In√est. Public Lecture - Gelsenkirchen, GE. October 2013Discovery Festival 2013. Public Lecture @Trouw - Amsterdam, NL. September 2013Abitare Avatar. Public Presentation @Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan Design Week, IT. April 2013Biofilia workshop. workshop with Symbiotica, Aalto University - Helsinki, FI. February 2013DAE Master. Public Presentation - Eindhoven, NL,. September 2012Bio-Data Visualisation workshop. Mediamatic - Amsterdam, NL. June 2012Who is the Designer and what a Designer can do. Riot Studio - Naples, IT. May 2012The Secret Art of Growing Mushrooms. Workshop series, Mediamatic - Amsterdam, NL. January 2012-present

Radio Mycelium workshop. FoAM- Brussels, BE. December 2011Ignite Amsterdam #13. Public Presentation, Mediamatic - Amsterdam, NL. December 2011

CSG Annual Meeting. Public Presentation - Nijmegen, Nl. November 2011Sense Kitchen workshop. Waag Society - Amsterdam, NL. May 2011

Conversion of Complex Substrates. Kluyver Centre annual symposium - Noordwijk, NL. January2011

NvVM. Fungus-Microbe Interaction, CBS - Utrecht, NL. November 2010

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Abitare Magazine. issue no.537, Commissioned Editorial titled wndrlust, by WNDRLUST , Jan 2014, Milan, ITFlashArt Magazine. “Nessuna Certezza” by Marco Petroni, October 2013, Milan, ITInterni Magazine. “Antropologia Digitale” by Stefano Caggiano, September 2013, Milan, ITCoolhunting. “The DNA of Things”, by Stefano Caggiano, September 2013, New York, USAAbitare Magazine. issue no.531, “Growing Design” by Valentina Ciuffi, April 2013, Milan, ITDisegno Magazine. issue no.1, “An Essay on Decay” by David Crowley, December 2011, London, UKWereld Verbeteraars. Jonathan Maas, Lebowski Achievers, Amsterdam 2011O’Clock - Time Design, Design Time. Catalogue, Triennale Design Museum, ELECTA, Milan, October 2011iFabric - European Talent. Catalogue, Audax Textiel Museum, Tilburg, 2011Wired. New Italian Design by Silvana Annicchiarico, July 2011 Repubblica. Interview to Alice Rawsthorn, by Cristiana Campanini, April 2011The New York Times. International Herald Tribune, by Alice Rawsthorn, April 2011Source 06. Does the world really need another chair?, Lecturis, April 2011We Make Money Not Art. Interview, by Regine Debatty, January 2011Hallo 040. Eindhoven & Design, February 2011ArtsThread Magazine. Issue 3, Letting the Process take control, by Katie Dominy, December 2010 Domus Web. Il Nuovo Design Olandese a Eindhoven, by Cecilia Fabiani, November 2010 Ponoko. By Taylor Gilbert, October 2010David Report. David Carlson, November 2010Io Donna. Interview to Alice Rawsthorn, by Lia Ferrari, October 2010Graduation Catalogue 2010. Design Academy Eindhoven, 2010, The NetherlandsThe New York Times. International Herald Tribune, by Alice Rawsthorn, July 2010Design NL. Interview, July 2010Source 05. Designing Global Choices, Jap Sam Books, 2010Home is Where the House Is. Design Academy Eindhoven, 2010

4 ProfileMaurizio Montalti

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Maurizio is a designer concerned with a thorough, trans-disciplinary, research-based practice, whose work addresses social and environmental challenges. Using design and art as tools to investigate and reflect upon contemporary culture, he seeks to create novel opportunities for the creative industry by engaging design in a multidisciplinary creative process. He often actively collaborates with professionals from other disciplines in a co-creative process, to arrive at thought-provoking solutions and design outcomes. His work spans across various mediums, previously exploring themes in relation to biotechnology, anthropology, bio-diversity and the impact of novel technologies.

The fascination for the micro-scale, together with a holistic vision of the world as a macro-organism and a strong belief in symbiotic relationships are some of Maurizio’s main drives. Sustained by a strong research practice, he strives to reveal unorthodox relationships in existing paradigms using various communicative media as a tool to disclose novel possibilities and catalyse critical thinking.

To this end, the design process and the subsequent materialisation of concepts are used as tools and strategies for questioning culture, while at the same time they are often offered as a critical statement to the design field itself.

Maurizio’s practice, known under the name of “Officina Corpuscoli ”, is currently operating as a multidisciplinary studio, providing creative consultancy and developing both Conceptual and Commercial works, often being inspired by living systems and organisms. The studio’s work has been widely presented in multiple museums, exhibitions and festivals, both nationally and internationally.

Officina Corpuscoli is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.