From time to time, I share insights from my applied research: participatory design, revitalization strategies, recovery of underutilized spaces, and local services.
Or, more simply, what it means to live and work in a marginal area.
If you’d like me to speak to your audience, please write to me@ivanprovenzale.com
Teaching
December 2025
Marbella Design Academy, Designing tomorrow, Monda, Spain – lecture
April 2024
Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino, System-shifting Design, Republic of San Marino – lecture
March 2022
Fondazione Pietro Pittini – Percorsi Spericolati, Fondamenti di Service Design, Valbruna, Italy – lecture
November 2021 – June 2022
Consorzio Friuli Formazione, Service Design for Third Sector organizations, Udine, Italy – training course
January 2021
Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio & BSD Design, Design for community cooperatives, Navacchio, Italia – lectureio
March 2014 – May 2014
Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana, Design Fundamentals, Lugano, Switzerland – university course (co-teaching)
March 2014
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, No UX only UX, Reggio Emilia, Italy – lecture
October 2009
Università degli Studi di Siena, Interaction Design Fundamentals, Siena, Italy – lecture
Seminars
October 2025
Banca FVG 360, Nature, creativity, action, Tramonti di Sopra, Italy – workshop
July 2025
NanoValbruna International Forum, On sustainable innovation, Valbruna, Italy – workshop
May 2025
Dolomiti Mountain School, Choose the margins, Tramonti di Sopra, Italy – conference
July 2024
NanoValbruna International Forum, Design, plan, budget, Valbruna, Italy – workshop
November 2023
Pordenonelegge, Storie di montagna: esperienze di vita e lavoro, Pordenone, Italy – conference
September 2023
Festival delle Aree Interne, Youth and inner areas, Tramonti di Sotto, Italy – conference
April 2023
Legambiente, Renewable Energy and Social Communities, Tramonti di Sotto and Meduno, Italy – workshop
March 2022
WMware, Design in the wild frontier, Berlin, Germany – conference
September 2021
Fondazione Pietro Pittini, Friulan mountains innovators, Sistiana, Italy – conference
May 2021
Università degli Studi di Udine, Cantiere Friuli – Officina Montagna, Project Community “Meduna valleys”, Udine, Italy – conference
December 2020
Grupo Aval, Respond today for the world of tomorrow, Bogotà, Colombia – conference
Media coverage
September 2025
Il Passo Giusto, Choose the Silisia valley. To experiment, persist, believe – contribution
June 2023
Radio Spazio, On my “Bandiera Verde” Carovana delle Alpi 2023 prize – interview
June 2023
Giuseppe Ragogna, Storie di rinascita della montagna friulana, Edizioni L’Omino Rosso, Pordenone, Italy – reportage
June 2021
Sherpa Community – “Conversations”, Service Design for rural communities and inner areas – podcast
January 2021
RAI Friuli Venezia Giulia, Project Community “Meduna valley”: petition for the reopening of the local campsite – interview