NEWS!

Dates of talks:
March 6th 2024
April 12th 2024

Campus
IAAD. Turin

IAAD. – Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design and ArtCenter College of Design, two excellences in Transportation Design education, have formed a partnership to promote and support initiatives of cultural and academic exchange among students, teachers, and researchers. This collaboration aims to foster the educational development of both institutions.

The initial step of this collaboration are “9649 Design Talks”, shared meetings between the campuses of Turin and Pasadena. 9649 represents the kilometers that separate IAAD. from the ArtCenter, a barrier that, thanks to this partnership, is eliminated, connecting these two Transportation Design communities.
The first two appointments will take place at IAAD, in live connection with the students of the ArtCenter and will be moderated by Dario Olivero, Coordinator of the Transportation Design Department.

The protagonists of these first two talks:

Davide Amantea

Wednesday, March 6th, at 6:30 PM

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-9649-design-talks-iaad-art-center-davide-amantea-849535201657

Chris Bangle
scheduled for autumn 2024 – date to be defined

Both talks, in English language, will be held at the IAAD. headquarters in Corso Regio Parco, 15 in Turin and will be accessible to a limited number of enthusiasts and students from other universities and institutions. Free admission with mandatory registration.

ArtCenter College of Design
Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter is a global leader in art and design education. With a current enrollment of approximately 2,423 students, coming from more than 50 countries. ArtCenter offers 11 undergraduate and 10 graduate degrees in a wide array of industrial design, visual and applied arts disciplines, as well as minors for undergraduate students in Business, Creative Writing, Material Science, Research, and Social Innovation. ArtCenter is a private nonprofit fully accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). Renowned for both its ties to industry and social impact initiatives, the College is the first design school to receive the United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status.

Davide Amantea

Born and raised in Turin, his dream has always been to be a car designer and he still chasing it.

Dave started in IDEA institute his first experience as Designer during the 2^nd year of University, working on Lancia Delta HPE concept with Frank Stephenson, later he jumped into FIAT Advance design team driven by R.Giolito on Fiat 500 and 500 Abarth projects, he worked also for Peter Jensen for Fiat Professional on Fiat Cubo/Fiorino and Fiat Doblo`, Marco Tencone invited him in the Alfa Romeo .

In 2008 Dave working as Senior Designer on Alfa Romeo 4C concept as Exterior and Interior designer, after the car have been presented in Geneva Motor Show 2009, he moved to work in the Maserati team with Giovanni Ribotta and he follow as main exterior designer for the Maserati kubang concept presented in Frankfurt 2010, during that time he worked also on Ghibli and Quattroporte.

Dave in 2010 decided to work for ITALDESIGN GIUGIARO freshly purchased by VW group. Here Raul Pires the director brings him to become Exterior team leader, a design manager that was leading many programs and many team at the same time for different brand of the group. Working with big Mentor like Giorgetto and Walter De Silva helped him to learn a lot of things about cars and car business. Here Dave had the possibility to work on many programs for SEAT,VW,AUDI,BENTELY,LAMBORGHINI and worked in many Show car from 2010 until 2014. Remarkable work have been done as Main designer of the Bentley Bentayga.

At that point Dave moved in UK working for Massimo Frascella in the Creative Design team, here he participated on many project, Discovery Sport MY19, Defender, Range rover Sport and Range Rover, advance program was also the core of his task.

Dave went in Germany in Munich at NIO and worked on ES6 and ET7 program a side of NIO Design strategy. A short but very intense experience that helping him to growth a lot.

Micheal Perschke at that time CEO of Automobili Pininfarina, invited him to join under the lead of Luca Borgogno the CDO the Exterior team as Director of Exterior Design. Today Dave is the Chief Designer Office of one of the most famous brands in the automotive world: Automobili Pininfarina, he continues to fight for design and tries to learn more, the road is long uphill but fun as hell.

Chris Bangle
Chris Bangle was born in Ravenna, Ohio in 1956. After attending the University of Wisconsin and graduating from the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California), Bangle began his career at Opel in 1981. He then moved on to Fiat on 1985, where he designed the brazen Coupe Fiat. In 1992 he was named the first American Chief of Design at BMW, where he was responsible for bringing the designs of the BMW, Mini Cooper, and Rolls Royce into the twenty-first century. After resigning from BMW in 2009, he moved to Clavesana (near Turin, Italy), where he founded Chris Bangle Associates (CBA), a design consultancy and management company, together with his wife Catherine. Nowadays CBA successfully operates in the product, industrial and car design business.

NEWS!

Type:
Special Lecture

Title:
ADD COURAGE TO YOUR DESIGN

The first appointment of the cycle of special lectures promoted by IAAD. with the title “ADD COURAGE TO YOUR DESIGN”, dedicated to meeting some of the protagonists of the contemporary world, undisputed talents in their field of research and professional practice, sees Ivan Cazzola as a guest in dialogue with Marco Rainò.

Ivan Cazzola

Ivan Cazzola is an Italian photographer who’s been working longtime for magazines and fashion brands from Milan, London, Paris and New York;
a versatile artist working also as documentary, short film and video director, Ivan has built up his own vision and style through his life experiences and a personal eye catching intimate, original yet always ironic and provoking point of view.
Swinging constantly between the fashion industry and the natural exploration of other much closer and autobiographical realities from his own hood shooting models, artists, rock bands,cinema stars, and a lot more. It’s all the same matter of raw beauty and present moment to catch.
The last months have seen him working on his first movie and setting up a new exhibition to show his best shots from American and European cities and landscapes.

NEWS!

Date:
May 26 – 2022

Location:
Open Incet (Piazza Teresa Noce, 17 – Torino)

The meeting “Towards the future of work” was created and organized by the students of the first year of First Level Academic Diploma in Social Innovation design of IAAD. (Turin) with the supervision of the teaching staff and thanks to the collaboration of Fondazione Brodolini and Open Incet.

What will be the working methods and places in the future?

The second edition of Future Talks explores the futures of work, focusing on the professions, skills and innovations required by labor markets. In particular, we will explore the dimension of well-being as the product of professional relationships, working methods and places.

These topics will be discussed by four high-profile guests with very heterogeneous perspectives, experiences and skills that we believe can enrich the debate.

Barbara De Micheli

Expert in gender equality, diversity&inclusion and organizational change. Head of the Social Justice Unit of the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini has coordinated since 2012 the Master in Gender Equality e Diversity Management. For over 20 years she has been involved in European design with a specific focus on the gender perspective in labour market. In 2020 she obtained her doctorate in Work, Development and Organization at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with a thesis on the organizational space and the impact of digitalization processes.

Veruscka Gennari

Co-Founder of 2BHappy Agency and IIPO (Italiana Institute for Positive Organizations). Philosopher, popularizer and entrepreneur. He led the Italian headquarters of Six Seconds, a worldwide network of Applied Emotional Intelligence. In 2016 she was invited to the UN to present the work of dissemination and research carried out in Italy on the construction of the science of happiness and positive organizations. She’s the Chief Happiness Officer Teacher and Teaching Coordinator. Co-author of the books “La Scienza delle Organizzazioni Positive” and “Chief Happiness Officer”, Ed Franco Angeli.

Federica Pasini

Graduated in Business Administration in Bocconi, she joined the network of startups of innovators and entrepreneurs Junior Jedi. After a course in digital marketing in London, working experiences for Generali and then for Apple, in pandemic launches a group on WhatsApp, HackingCovid, a network that aggregates doctors, psychologists, computer scientists and many other professions, then move on to concrete projects, useful: from psychological well-being to communication, from the delivery of food and medicines to the analysis of data. The Hacking Talents website is born, a match platform between employees, freelancers and entrepreneurs with professional growth experts. Join Forbes’ 100 Best Under 30 List in the Marketing & Advertising List in 2021.

Alberto Robiati

Director of Forwardto – Studi e competenze per scenari futuri and Program Director of the Foresight Academy at Cottino Social Impact Campus. Expert in innovation and specialized in Futures & Foresight. In Turin, he studied the subject at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University and collaborated in teaching at the Polytechnic University. For 20 years entrepreneur, consultant and trainer in the field of strategic development, empowerment, imagination and applied creativity, transformative processes and organizational well-being. Teaching Coordinator. Co-author of the books “The Science of Positive Organizations” .

The event will be available for free in attendance, upon registration subject to availability and will be broadcast live on the IAAD. instagram channel. (@ iaad.it)

Registrations at the following link: