Paolo Deganello presents the conference The Project's Ecological Conversion and promotes the workshop Furniture Remade, in the scope of the Master in Interior Design.

The workshop arises from a partnership with Maiambiente, which provides a set of more than 50 pieces of furniture with no utility. The students of the 1st year of the Master in Interior Design of ESAD will reimagine these pieces, in a reuse and rehabilitation project, under the guidance of Paolo Deganello. The rehabilitated pieces will then be exhibited in a solidarity auction and the money raised will be given to a number of associations.

Born in 1940, Paolo Deganello studied architecture at the University of Florence. In 1966, he joined Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, and Massimo Morozzi in founding Archizoom Associati, in homage to the British group of architects known as Archigram and to Zoom magazine. Archizoom was part of the radical design movement in Italy, designing anti-design furniture such as the Safari corner set or the San Remo floor lamp (both for Poltronova in 1968). In 1973, he collaborated with Gilberto Corretti on the design of Archizoon, a line of office chairs manufactured by Marcatré. With the dissolution of Archizoom Associati, he devoted himself to teaching at the University of Florence and at the London Architectural Association. With his students, he investigated the quality and comfort requirements of seating furniture, a study that bore fruit, such as the AEO chair (Cassina, 1973). In 1981, in his studio in Florence, he designed the asymmetrical Torso chair (Cassina, 1982). In 1987 he shows his Documenta Chair at documenta 8 in Kassel. And in 1991 he designs the Re and Regina pair of chairs, with steel frame and legs, wicker seats and leather backs. Paolo Deganello has shown his work in numerous exhibitions, including Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, the exhibition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972. He has been a guest lecturer at the Master in Interior Design at ESAD since 2010 and is responsible for the research unit in Architecture and Sustainable Living.

The lecture is free and takes place on May 4, at 3:00pm, in the ESAD auditorium. The workshop, aimed at first-year students of the Master's in Interior Design, takes place between 2 and 5 May.

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