Each project usually gives us a vision, a prefiguration, expressed through cultural languages, projected in a double dimension of space and time. By its very nature the project implies the propositional activity of “throwing forward”, of inscribing the action in the future, playing on visionary daring, exploiting the acquired positions and contacts, drawing on the intangible resources and energies available or on the latent and interceptable ones.
Everyone knows, through direct experience, how risky the condition looks for the future, for the desirable, for the longing, above all when the project, in its attempt at implementation, will be forced to face unpredictable, indefinable time.
Being aware of such difficulties in the concept of the To Design Today Festival, we have assigned a special value to the time-factor, considered as the “resource” of the project itself in a double strategic perspective.
In 2011 the Ferrara Architecture Faculty celebrates the 20th anniversary since its foundation. Four lustrums of intense institutional life, which have seen a variety of phases, even overlapping at times: Certificate of Incorporation and Foundation of the School, the start of training and research activities; creation of a scientific community, thesis sessions with young graduates from Ferrara, who gradually made their way into the professional fabric of the country, the establishment of the Faculty at a national level (topping the CENSIS classifications eight times first in the last ten years), cultural celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Foundation, expansion of the rooms with the renovation of the Tassoni Estense Palace, the launch of the Degree Course in Industrial Design.
Architect and designer, Luisa Bocchietto graduated in 1985 in Industrial Design, and, at the same time, in interior architecture at IED in Milan. Since then she works in the field of architecture and design, opening her own firm in Biella and Milan. She cooperates as visiting professor with universities and design schools. She wrote books and she speaks in several conferences in Italy and worldwide. Many specialized magazines have published her works.