Alessandro Guerriero

In 1976 he founded 'Alchimia', the group of designers who gave face and ideas to the Italian post-avant-garde. He speaks with a vocabulary all his own, a vocabulary in which the adjective to be placed next to the word 'Design' is 'Romantic' (he called this the theory with which he looks at his craft). Guerriero's work is everywhere - from the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, to the Metropolitan Museum in New York - but his kaleidoscopic gaze has also settled on less orthodox spaces for architecture and design. He has reinvented newspapers, concerts and theatres, prisons (with the Cooperativa del Granserraglio, made up of inmates in semi-freedom), schools (founding the Domus Academy in 1987 and then, in 1995, the Futurarium in Ravenna, an educational workshop where to learn the "fading of disciplines") and then again Naba in 2000. In 1982 he was awarded the Compasso d'Oro. In 2012 he founded the free non-school Tam Tam with Mendini and Dalisi.