FABRIZIO VALPREDA

Fabrizio Valpreda is architect, designer and associate professor of design at Politecnico di Torino. His background is based upon the co-existence of the analog tradition merged with the digital innovation, being him a digital immigrant and an early adopter of the IT revolution potentials in Design development. He works on research and education between digital innovation and analog tradition through Open Design, thus creating new connections between the micro-production methodologies and the new methods offered by the Fablabs typical collaborative approach, with the primary target to create connection between skills in new multidisciplinary environments. Scientific manager of virtuaLAB - Design, a digital lab for design visualization, 3D printing and Interaction Design, he is also member of the Polytechnic of Turin ICT board, academic mentor of Fablab Torino and Design delegate at Teaching and Language Laboratory - Polito (TLLab).