Notes

Thoughts on design, community, environment, and provincial, marginal Italy – in short, the forgotten one. Above all, provocations on ‘what comes after a certain way of being human’.

I call it post-anthropic. I write about it on this page – at irregular intervals.

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September 2025

Choose the Silisia valley

Experimenting, persisting, believing. An ongoing, imperfect process, a life choice. (Re)learning to take on greater responsibility.

July 2024

The Ugly Duckling

Shortsightedness and laziness are leading to catastrophe: should we perhaps examine more closely the overlooked virtues of a meager resistance?

February 2024

Perspective Inside

Or in the words of Roberto Unger, “hope is more the consequence of action than its cause.”

April 2020

Healing the Metabolic Rift

Bringing design to neglected and vitally important territories: a community-based experiment working towards a new ‘natural/human’ identity to thrive.

October 2019

A Journey Out of Digital Illusions

The most banal considerations on the role of designers and three resolutions for a different future: why I left my agency career to live and work in the mountains.

September 2019

A Simple Opinion on the Effects of a Designers’ Strike

What would happen if we said “NO!” to false progress, the accumulation of unnecessary products, and the exploitation of people?