Dario Scodeller
A graduated architect at the Università Iuav in Venice, he is an associate professor in the Architecture Department of the Università degli Studi di Ferrara. Since 2005 to 2015 he has taught Design at the Università degli Studi Della Repubblica di San Marino/Iuav di Venezia, where he was a researcher and, in 2014-2015, director of the Undergraduate Programme in Industrial Design.
He also taught design at the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano, in the Master courses in Lighting Design at the Accademia di Brera and at the Architecture School of the Università di Udine.
His graduate thesis (The design of house museum of Gioacchino Rossini in Pesaro) was exhibited in Biennale Giovani in Barcellona, in 1987.
He began his collaboration at IUAV University in Venice in 1988, as Expert in the Design and Visual communication field, engaged in researches (Lighting design in commercial spaces: Osram-IUAV 1988-1990), design exhibitions (Statistic Pavillion at XVII Triennale di Milano 1988) and organization of conferences (I percorsi del design, Munari, Cerri, Castiglioni), IUAV Venezia, Ca’ Tron, 1992).
In 1995 he was the curator and coordinator, for the Municipality of Venice, of a historical research about public lighting from 1750 to 1950 (Preliminary Historical research to the redevelopment of the public lighting system) and, in 1997, he was curator and coordinator, for the Municipality of Venice, of a historical research about outdoor design in public spaces in Venice, from 1800-1950.
From 1990 to 2000 he carried out design activities for the Italian retail company Coin SpA (later Gruppo Coin), realizing several exhibition concepts (Coin, Coincasa) and studying new visual communication design standards. As a design manager, director and later on a consultant, of the Coin Retail design office, he leaded projects in the main Italian historical centers. Among the most significant: the project for the Roman Theater area (Bologna 1994), in collaboration with the Historical heritage Commission; the project for the Peroni ex-factory (Rome 1995); the renovation of the Magazzini Zincone in via Cola di Rienzo (Rome 1999).
In 1999 - 2000 he studied filmmaking at the Bologna Experimental Film Center and in Bobbio with Marco Bellocchio (Training course "Making cinema" 1999).
In 2003-2004 he was the design consultant for "Fabrica" (the Communication research centre of the Benetton Group) for the exhibition design: he designed the exhibition Canova (Bassano 2003, curators: Giuseppe Pavanello Mario Guderzo Sergey Androsov) and the exhibition system for the cultural promotion of the Veneto Region (2005).
In 2003 he founded (with Gabriele Tumiati and Giorgia Voltan) the design studio Archiroom associated, developing exhibition projects for cultural companies and institutions such as: Electa Musei, Rome Museums Foundation, City of Milan, including: the Miti Greci exhibition (Palazzo Reale) , Milan 2004, (curators: Gemma Sena Chiesa and Ermanno Arslan); Roma e l’antico (Fondazione Roma musei, Rome, 2010, curators: Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi), Niki de Saint Phalle, (Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, 2009, curator: Stefano Cecchetto).
From 2007 to 2010, he carried out consulting and design activities for the Department of Culture (under the Secretary of State) of the Republic of San Marino, designing the exhibitions: Un Tesoro Goto in Strasbourg (Council of Europe building, Strasbourg, April 2007) Out of there, Participation of San Marino at the 11th Venice Biennale Architettura 2008 (Palazzo Zorzi, Venice), Architecture in the small state, Participation of San Marino at the 12th Venice Biennale Architettura 2010 (Palazzo Zorzi, Venice).
His publications include more than 50 essays and articles and 4 monographs: Livio e Piero Castiglioni, il progetto della luce (Electa, Milano 2003), the history of unpublished works by Livio Castiglioni and his son, Piero Castiglioni, investigating the relationship between lighting design, construction and museography, based on a historical and archival research; Negozi, l’architetto nello spazio della merce (Electa, Milano 2007), which investigate the history of the concept of exhibition and outfitting in the commercial space during the '900, through the study of the work of architects, from Adolf Loos to Rem Koolhaas; Gaddo Morpurgo, pensieri, progetti, ricerche (Foschi Editore, Forlì 2008), Design spontaneo (Corraini 2017).
His studies and critical reflections on design have been published, from 1994, in magazines such as “Casabella”, “Abitare”, “Domus”, “Flare”, “Licht & Architektur”, “Luce & Design”, “AIS\Design Storia e Ricerche”, “MD Journal”, discussing themes related to product design, exhibition design, lighting design, and retail design, which define the fields of interest of its scientific and research activities.
In 2000-2000, he held on "Casabella" a column dedicated to the criticism of design.
He collaborated with the Vitra design museum for the publication Pop art design (2012), published in English and German.
For the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia Treccani, he has compiled the biographical entries of A. Castiglioni, V. Magistretti, J. Colombo in the Biographical Dictionary of Italians, online version (2015).
Since 2013 he has been one of the members of AIS/Design, the Italian Association of Design Historians, for which he participated as a speaker at the 2013 conference on The formation of the design historian with a survey on the historiography of art, of architecture and design with the title: Art, architecture, design. The schools of historical studies between harmonies and conflicts, the text of which is published in the proceedings of the conference at Allemandi Editore.
For "AisDesign. History and research" magazine, he wrote essays about exhibitions and digital archives of design.
From 2015 he is vice-director of “MD Journal”, a design research review edited by MD Lab in Ferrara University.
A graduated architect at the Università Iuav in Venice, he is an associate professor in the Architecture Department of the Università degli Studi di Ferrara. Since 2005 to 2015 he has taught Design at the Università degli Studi Della Repubblica di San Marino/Iuav di Venezia, where he was a researcher and, in 2014-2015, director of the Undergraduate Programme in Industrial Design.
He also taught design at the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano, in the Master courses in Lighting Design at the Accademia di Brera and at the Architecture School of the Università di Udine.
His graduate thesis (The design of house museum of Gioacchino Rossini in Pesaro) was exhibited in Biennale Giovani in Barcellona, in 1987.
He began his collaboration at IUAV University in Venice in 1988, as Expert in the Design and Visual communication field, engaged in researches (Lighting design in commercial spaces: Osram-IUAV 1988-1990), design exhibitions (Statistic Pavillion at XVII Triennale di Milano 1988) and organization of conferences (I percorsi del design, Munari, Cerri, Castiglioni), IUAV Venezia, Ca’ Tron, 1992).
In 1995 he was the curator and coordinator, for the Municipality of Venice, of a historical research about public lighting from 1750 to 1950 (Preliminary Historical research to the redevelopment of the public lighting system) and, in 1997, he was curator and coordinator, for the Municipality of Venice, of a historical research about outdoor design in public spaces in Venice, from 1800-1950.
From 1990 to 2000 he carried out design activities for the Italian retail company Coin SpA (later Gruppo Coin), realizing several exhibition concepts (Coin, Coincasa) and studying new visual communication design standards. As a design manager, director and later on a consultant, of the Coin Retail design office, he leaded projects in the main Italian historical centers. Among the most significant: the project for the Roman Theater area (Bologna 1994), in collaboration with the Historical heritage Commission; the project for the Peroni ex-factory (Rome 1995); the renovation of the Magazzini Zincone in via Cola di Rienzo (Rome 1999).
In 1999 - 2000 he studied filmmaking at the Bologna Experimental Film Center and in Bobbio with Marco Bellocchio (Training course "Making cinema" 1999).
In 2003-2004 he was the design consultant for "Fabrica" (the Communication research centre of the Benetton Group) for the exhibition design: he designed the exhibition Canova (Bassano 2003, curators: Giuseppe Pavanello Mario Guderzo Sergey Androsov) and the exhibition system for the cultural promotion of the Veneto Region (2005).
In 2003 he founded (with Gabriele Tumiati and Giorgia Voltan) the design studio Archiroom associated, developing exhibition projects for cultural companies and institutions such as: Electa Musei, Rome Museums Foundation, City of Milan, including: the Miti Greci exhibition (Palazzo Reale) , Milan 2004, (curators: Gemma Sena Chiesa and Ermanno Arslan); Roma e l’antico (Fondazione Roma musei, Rome, 2010, curators: Carolina Brook and Valter Curzi), Niki de Saint Phalle, (Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, 2009, curator: Stefano Cecchetto).
From 2007 to 2010, he carried out consulting and design activities for the Department of Culture (under the Secretary of State) of the Republic of San Marino, designing the exhibitions: Un Tesoro Goto in Strasbourg (Council of Europe building, Strasbourg, April 2007) Out of there, Participation of San Marino at the 11th Venice Biennale Architettura 2008 (Palazzo Zorzi, Venice), Architecture in the small state, Participation of San Marino at the 12th Venice Biennale Architettura 2010 (Palazzo Zorzi, Venice).
His publications include more than 50 essays and articles and 4 monographs: Livio e Piero Castiglioni, il progetto della luce (Electa, Milano 2003), the history of unpublished works by Livio Castiglioni and his son, Piero Castiglioni, investigating the relationship between lighting design, construction and museography, based on a historical and archival research; Negozi, l’architetto nello spazio della merce (Electa, Milano 2007), which investigate the history of the concept of exhibition and outfitting in the commercial space during the '900, through the study of the work of architects, from Adolf Loos to Rem Koolhaas; Gaddo Morpurgo, pensieri, progetti, ricerche (Foschi Editore, Forlì 2008), Design spontaneo (Corraini 2017).
His studies and critical reflections on design have been published, from 1994, in magazines such as “Casabella”, “Abitare”, “Domus”, “Flare”, “Licht & Architektur”, “Luce & Design”, “AIS\Design Storia e Ricerche”, “MD Journal”, discussing themes related to product design, exhibition design, lighting design, and retail design, which define the fields of interest of its scientific and research activities.
In 2000-2000, he held on "Casabella" a column dedicated to the criticism of design.
He collaborated with the Vitra design museum for the publication Pop art design (2012), published in English and German.
For the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia Treccani, he has compiled the biographical entries of A. Castiglioni, V. Magistretti, J. Colombo in the Biographical Dictionary of Italians, online version (2015).
Since 2013 he has been one of the members of AIS/Design, the Italian Association of Design Historians, for which he participated as a speaker at the 2013 conference on The formation of the design historian with a survey on the historiography of art, of architecture and design with the title: Art, architecture, design. The schools of historical studies between harmonies and conflicts, the text of which is published in the proceedings of the conference at Allemandi Editore.
For "AisDesign. History and research" magazine, he wrote essays about exhibitions and digital archives of design.
From 2015 he is vice-director of “MD Journal”, a design research review edited by MD Lab in Ferrara University.
