Studio
Design
I am an Italian designer, living and working between Italy and the United States. I graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven and later obtained a PhD from the University of Loughboroughâs School of Design. Winding between collaboration of different disciplines, my work emerges as a result of a participatory and speculative research method, to breed a territory of transdisciplinary synergy. From the active phase, based on experimentation on technologies, materials and production processes, I derive artifacts and installations performing as perceptual bridges to generate visions about speculative future scenarios. The studio’s projects are initiated in several ways, including commissions from design companies and labels, self-initiated projects or collaborations with public-private partners, such as universities and research institutes.
Teaching
I have been lecturing design for several institutions, including Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam (WdKA), Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU), Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI). Since 2024, I am a design Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), in the department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects.
Collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue inform my approach to design.
If you'd like to connect or explore possible collaborations, you'll find my contacts here
Call me (Italy): +39 340 820 8927
Call me (U.S.): +1 (312) 478 9640
email me: hello@gionatagatto.com
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