tutors

  • Design Curator

    Angela Rui is a design curator and researcher based in Milan. She got her PhD in Exhibition Design at the Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture (2011). She believes that design is positioned as a critical practice that problematises conventional ways of inhabiting and experiencing the world, and that designers could operate to recognize collective commons and to design for a more-than-human society. Among other projects, she recently curated the exhibition and program AQUARIA. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea at the maat (Lisbon, 2021); she co-curated I See That I See What You don’t See, the Dutch Pavilion for Broken Nature – XXII Triennale di Milano (2019), and Faraway So Close – the 25th Ljubljana Design Biennial (2017). She is currently teaching “Pedagogies of the Sea” at the GEO-Design Master programme - Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), Exhibition Design at the MA in Interior Design at the NABA (Milan) and Critica del Contemporaneo at the Università di Design di San Marino.

    She regularly writes for editorial commissions on design criticism.

    Her writings appeared in publications and catalogues published by several institutions, MAXXI (Rome) and CCA (Montreal) among others, and she has been Member of theoretical, historical, critical research and publishing projects commission for ADI Design Index (2013-2015). She curated the 2015 edition of Operae, the independent design festival based in Turin, under the title HERE/NOW. Under Present Effect. With Meeting Mirabilia she led a series of live interviews from the studios of LiveOn4G (Telecom) to discuss the use of poetry, dreams, uncertainty, nature, and desire as new platforms for design (2014). And for the Triennale Design Museum she curated the exhibition and catalogue Ugo la Pietra. Disequilibrating Design (2014). She has been design editor for Abitare magazine (2011-2013), and curated the editorial project of Icon Design magazine (Mondadori, 2015-2017).

  • Advisor & Consultant

    Radio host, podcaster, consultant, journalist, artistic director and consultant for many Italian festivals, brands and institutions.

    I worked as a consultant for Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, E.T.I. (Italian theater institution) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lazio Region, RAI, and many other local and national institutions. I put my expertise music and communication at the service of companies such as Soundreef, Carhartt, Nike, Vién, Asics, Jeep, and many other national and international brands. I work with agencies communication and events such as FilmMaster, Super Humans, xister, with the newspaper Il Tomorrow. I have been conducting RadioRai2's MusicalBox format for 14 years, as well as being one of the DJs more established nationally and of the most established producers internationally with the Khalab project.

    Member of the Cultural Board of the NGO Intersos and of the Onlus Veracura. I directed for 10 years the event planning and design company Snob Production developing projects for Maxxi, Macro, Teatro Parenti, Municipality of Rome, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Telecom,

    Nastro Azzurro, Redbull, Terna, Province of Rome, Teatro Valle, Cinecittà, Nike, etc.

  • Training / mentoring on NFTs

    A native of Grenoble, France, Pauline Foessel (b. 1987) launched in 2019, Artpool, the digital platform of the art world, centered around curators and institutions. Pauline Foessel moved to Lisbon in 2013 to manage Alexandre Farto's Vhils Studio and Underdogs Gallery. With a master's degree in Management Entrepreneurial from SKEMA Business School in Lille and an MBA Exchange Program from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, she worked as gallery assistant at Galerie Magda Danysz in Paris and gallery manager at Magda Danysz Gallery in Shanghai, China.

    www.artpool.xyz

  • Mentoring on music production

    Martin Kohlstedt is among the outstanding composers, pianists and producers for instrumental music and electronica. His past albums «Tag» and «Nacht», «Strom» and «Ströme», «Flur», «Feld» and the most recent one dubbed «Feld» and their respective reworks were rewarded with international recognition and concert tours throughout the whole world.

    www.martinkohlstedt.com/de

  • Creative Director

    Demonstrated history of working in live events and for commercial and cultural projects. Skilled in Creative Research, Writing, Trend Analysis, Art Direction, Set Design and Illustration. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a solid background in creative and cultural projetcs.

    I'm a creative director who works crossing the border between direction, set design and illustration. I develope projects in the realms of live events and branded contents for commercial clients, cultural institutions as well as self initiated research projects. My recent works includes the award winng event Maserati - Time To be Audacious, LVMH Les Journées Particulières x Loropiana, Google Arts & Culture's permanent installation for the Google SP6 headquarter St Pancras 6 - King Cross London, Moncler's Mountain Secret show format (Kitzbühel - AU, Mégève - FR, Crans-Montana - CH), the Google Grand Tour of Italy (Venice, Palermo, Siena, Rome - IT), Ermenegildo Zegna's "Status in Motion" events series ( Los Angeles - US, Jeju - KOR, Torino - IT), YOU The Digital Fashion Revolution - exhibition , La Triennale Milano. I've been part in the collective exhibition il Nuovo Vocabolario della Moda Italiana, U.V. Ultra Violento at gallery Le Dictateur in Milan and my set design project entitled Mirror Stage Diving has been hosted by Museo del Novecento and Teatro Franco Parenti. In 2014 I was included in “Menswear Illustration” (Thames & Hudson) a worldwide review about the best 40 artists in male fashion's illustration. Since 2013 I taught creative research - “mirroring” - at IED - Istituto Europeo del Design. A part of my projects has been reviewed, among the others, in i-D, Arkitip, Vice U.S., Wired, Ala Champfest mag.

  • Artist

    Carincur is a transdisciplinary artist living in Almada, Portugal. With a background in Visual Arts, Music and Theater as training, Carincur develops work in the area of creation, production, Art Direction and Curatorship. Artistically, develops work with an exploratory nature, configuring itself in hybrid formats between performance, electronic and experimental music, audiovisual installations, sound sculptures and electroacoustic instruments, among others.

    In recent years, she has investigated and developed her practice and research as a dynamic event through symbolic experiences that bend the socio-technical fabrics where the image of the normative human is woven in a hybrid work with technology. Going through themes such as fiction/reality, electronic/organic and human subjectivity and using the space/body/voice/machine as the main plastic materials, she explores acoustic phenomena, auditory and visual perception, the voice as a synthesis device, the humanoid vocal capacity and the creation of post-human voices, used to understand the transitions between organic and electronic bodies, where any new additions of “external” technology are seen as extensions of the body.

    carincur.com

  • Artist

    João Pedro Fonseca is a Lisbon-based transdisciplinary artist whose work is dedicated to spectrality, transcendence, transhumanism, experimental territories and immaterial properties. ZABRA‘s founder and manager with Carincur. President of ZIGURFEST.

    joaopedrofonseca.com