Molto Bello SymposiumInnovation and Collaboration: Modern Italian Design

Guest speakers and topics include:

Flavia Marcello (Writer, historian and Adjunct Professor at the School of Design and Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology)
Italy and Australia—Intercultural Exchange and Collaboration

Kendrah Morgan (Head Curator) and Laura Lantieri (Associate Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art)
Introduction to Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Anna Caione (Lecturer in Drawing & Design History, Swinburne University)
Modern Design Utopia? Olivetti and the Industrial City of Ivrea

Jeromie Maver (Researcher and collector of Australian mid-century design), and Dean Keep (Creative practitioner, researcher, and Course Director of the Bachelor of Screen Production)
The Impact of Italian Style on Australian Mid-century Design

Eli Giannini AM (Principal at MGS Architects: Learning from the Innovators)
Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi and Anna Castelli Ferrieri

Mauro Baracco (Director of Baracco+Wright Architects (B+W), formerly an Associate Professor at RMIT-School of Architecture and Urban Design (1996-2020). He is currently Teaching Associate at MADA-Monash University, University Fellow to RMIT, and Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Milan Polytechnic-Polimi.)
Geometry, Simplicity, Play: Vico Magistretti