Stefano Mirti, interaction designer and director of NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti - in Milan (* 1968), is in charge of the operations of Id-lab (Interaction Design Lab), Turin. At the same time he works as a coordinator of the Design program at Naba Academy and is consultant of Torino World Design Capital 2008.
From 2001 to 2005 he worked as Associate Professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, a research center established by Olivetti and Telecom Italia. From 2000 to 2001, he worked as lecturer at Tama Art University (Tokyo). He there designed such unique projects as the  polycarbonate house and the neon gardens, and initiated Now the Future, a project for a digital image atlas of the world. Before his years in Japan, he was one of the founding members of Cliostraat, a design group of architects, artists and photographers that designs houses, parks, public facilities, sports facilities and temporary exhibition pavilions. Cliostraat is one of the most successful groups of the so-called Italy’s new wave, featured at length in all kinds of exhibitions and press. He was three times awarded the prestigious  European Architectural Prize (1995, 1997 and 2001) and has been awarded the Italian Republic Bronze Medal for Cultural Merits in the field of Architecture (2004). As a designer, his works and installations have been exhibited at Venice Biennale, Milano Triennale, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Beijing First Biennale of Architecture and others.

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stefano.mirti@naba.it