Emerging Worlds Studio
Emerging Worlds Studio
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Professor: Gionata Gatto
Assistant Professor, Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Email: ggatto1@saic.edu, https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/gionata-gatto
Fridays 9 am - 3 pm
Department: Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Department: Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Area of Study: Product Design, Collaboration.
Area of Study: Product Design, Collaboration.
Location: In person, Sullivan Center 1230
Location: In person, Sullivan Center 1230
Teaching Assistant: Rose Ansari, MFA ransar@saic.edu
Description
Description
The goal of this class is to design services, tools, and objects that will shape a new reality of human experience. The class will explore how long-term trends in urban migration, automation, AI, big data, climate change, food, and mixed experience will transform our day-to-day lives. Through research and experimentation, students will investigate the realities and possibilities of these conditions and consider how they will change what we eat, how we work and relax, what we wear, how we gather, and how we travel. As a living laboratory, students will use a variety of media, including digital fabrication, virtual reality, and physical storytelling, to create new design tools, scenarios, worlds, services, objects, and experiences. To accomplish this, students will research the historical, political, technological, ecological, and cultural trends of a particular topic.
About the Professor
About the Professor
Gionata Gatto (PhD) is a designer and researcher in the fields of Multispecies, Speculative, and Participatory design. He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven’s Master and later obtained a PhD from the University of Loughborough’s School of Design. His work intersects multiple methods and builds on collaborations with scientific disciplines to breed a territory of transdisciplinary synergy. From experimentation on forms, materials and production processes, mediated by the use of emerging technologies, he derives artefacts and installations that perform as perceptual bridges to generate visions about speculative future scenarios. As a designer, he displayed work in galleries and events worldwide, including Triennale di Milano, Galleria Rossana Orlandi, MAXXI, Maison & Objet, Sotheby's and others. Gionata previously taught at WdKA Rotterdam, HkU Utrecht, IED Madrid, and chaired the product design concentration at Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation.
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