Education

Apr2009
Interaction Design graduate degree thesis, based on my internship, with professor Gillian Crampton Smith: “Greengrowers, a location based game for the city of Venice”.

Oct2008-Dec2008
Mobile application design and prototyping studio course (Gillian Crampton Smith). Processing workshops held by Nick Zambetti (IDEO Palo Alto), Vinay Ventrakamen (Interaction Design Institute Copenhagen).

Oct2008
“Applied Dreams” workshop with H-Farm to design innovative and interactive solutions for the fashion industry.

Aug2008 – Oct2008
Internship at Area/code: cross-media games and entertainment design agency in New York (USA).

May2008
Game design workshop at Fabrica, Benetton communications research centre (Treviso). Lectures with Kevin Slavin, managing director and co-founder of Area/code, NY.

Jan2008 – Mar2008
-Physical computing studio course (Philip Tabor). “Usable Witchery” workshop with Yaniv Steiner (Nastypixel). Prototyping workshop with Durrell Bishop and Tom Hulbert (Luckybite, London)
-Interaction design 2 seminar course (Gillian Crampton Smith)
-Interactive Art seminar course (Andy Cameron – Fabrica)

Oct2007-Dec2007
-Mobile application design and prototyping studio course (Gillian Crampton Smith). Processing workshops held by Christian Reikoff (Berlin), Nick Zambetti (IDEO Palo Alto), Vinay Ventrakamen (Interaction Design Institute Copenhagen).
-Interaction design 1 seminar course (Philip Tabor).

Apr2006-Apr 2009
Graduate degree in Visual and Multimedia Communications at IUAV University of Venice (Italy). Interaction design programme with Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor.
Main studies in: Mobile apps design, Physical computing, Interaction Design theory, Photography&Video, Conceptual thinking, Design and Graphics history, Visual perception.

Oct2006-Apr2006
Seminars (Design history, Printing techniques) and studio (Communication design 1 and 2, basic design, drawing) courses in Industrial design at IUAV University of Venice (Italy).

Jul2006
Participation in the international workshop Siena Design Project 2006.

Oct2005-Jul2006
1year Master in Design for Communication Environments at Arsnova/University of Siena (Italy), with visiting professors from Domus Academy Milan (Italy).
Seminars: Activity Design; Ambient Interaction; Interactive Media.
Workshops: Physical Computing; 3D modelling; Graphics.
Seven months project designing innovative tools and services for a wireless town, with the Municipality of Monteroni d’Arbia (Italy).

Dec2004-Jul2005
HMI undergraduate degree thesis, based on my internship, with Professor Antonio Rizzo: “The redesign of the experimental flight instrument Cockpit Display of Traffic Information”.

Dec2004-Jan2005
Internship at DeepBlue consultancy in Rome (Italy): Human Factors studies in the Mediterranean Free Flight project at the Experimental Centre of ENAV (Italian Air Traffic Control agency). I had to monitor, during flight simulations, pilots’ interaction with an experimental flight instrument.

Dec2001
University of Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (grade B).

Oct2001-Jul2005
Undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences (programme in Communication Technologies) at University of Siena (Italy).
Main studies in: Human Machine Interaction, Cognitive sciences, Telecommunications, Semiotics.

1998-2001
Scientific High School, Siena (Italy).
1996-1998
European Community School of Malta, St.Julian’s (Malta).