Curriculum vitae Sergio Antonio Salvi

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Curriculum
vitae
Sergio Antonio
Salvi
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He was born in Crema
in 1964 June the 13th
IT01142260197
Diplomated engineer, degree in
architecture, product designer,
teacher, freelance journalist and critic
of industrial product
CONTACT INFORMATION
4, via L. Griffini, 26013, Crema, Italy
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+39 0373 80871
[email protected]
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+39 339 1395219
it.linkedIn.com/in/sergioantoniosalvi/
www.slideshare.net/SergioAntonioSalvi
CONTENTS
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Chronological abstract
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Professional experience (omitted)
Product design and product development
Engineering and industrial research
Teaching and educational field
Publications and journalism
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Education and training (omitted)
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Abilities (omitted)
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Additional information (omitted)
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Chronological
abstract
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first steps in
engineering and in
research and
development for ENI
■ Sergio Antonio Salvi was born in Crema in 1964. He
graduated with a degree in architecture, specializing in interior
design and industrial design from Politecnico di Milano, where
he followed courses given by Tomas Maldonado, among others.
After a brief experience in aviation (Unifly Air Services) and
obligatory military service, as Italian Army officer, he studied
architecture and design at the same time launching a career as
a designer, first in engineering and then in the context of
applied research for plastics industry and new materials with
ENI Group, where he eventually served in the role of project
manager.
he meets Michele De
Lucchi
■ As an architect and industrial designer he has spent time
working in the studio of Michele De Lucchi (Milano, 1993-1995)
contributing to various architecture projects such as the Olivetti
Showroom for the Ivrea headquarters. He also worked on
various industrial products for companies such as Ciba Vision
(working on packaging for their “Focus Dailies” contact lenses),
Mandarina Duck, Olivetti, and Vitra.
from the Scuola
Politecnica di Design
of Nino Di Salvatore to
the Politecnico di
Milano
■ Since 2005 Mr. Salvi has served as a lecturer in the faculty of
product design, at Politecnico di Milano (Scuola del Design),
teaching a course on product design production processes; in
2008 he was assigned to teach a course on product design
project development. In 2006, for Polidesign (a consortium of
Politecnico), he created and directed the new advanced course
“Design For Plastics”, the first on the topic in Italy; this course
is now being offered for the 8th time; at the same school he also
serves as the adjunct professor and lecturer for various other
undergraduate and masters class, and, as a consultant,
participates in some product design and research projects. He
has taught courses at many different universities, schools, and
institutes, teaching in both English and Italian. These academic
experiences include the Politecnico di Milano (adjunct professor
and lecturer), the Scuola Politecnica di Design, the ISIA in
Faenza and Urbino, the Istituto Europeo di Design, the
Accademia di Design Bolzano, the NABA, the Domus Accademy,
the Scuola Italiana Design, the Istituto Marangoni. He created
and led the course “Progettazione e Produzione del Mobile”
[furniture design and production] for ENAIP Lombardia, from
1999 untill 2001. In 2002 he participated in lessons for the
Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
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Giulio Castelli,
“Plastica, Tecnologia,
Design”, other
publications and
journalism activity
■ As a writer he has written essays on diverse topics for
professional magazines (l'Arca, VIA, GB Progetti, Stileindustria,
Plast Design), in addition to writing papers for events like the
international congress of the Società Italiana di Ergonomia
(italian ergonomics association, Florence, 2001). His early
working experiences led him to write his first book “Plastica,
Tecnologia, Design”, edited by Hoepli in 1997 and presented by
Giulio Castelli, the founder of Kartell. This book, after being
reviewed by Domus, among other international magazines, was
nominated for the “2002 World Technology Awards” in the field
of design. He has also partecipated in the publishing of other
books and essays such as “Transportation Design Learning”
(Chiddo E. et al., Centro Ricerche CETMA of Brindisi, ENEA,
2005). Since 2015 he has worked as a freelance journalist,
mostly collaborating to the Italian magazine “Il Test” (of which
is the curator of a section), as a critic of industrial product.
the transition
engineering-product
design
■ After a working experience in engineering as a freelance
associated designer (BFS Design & Engineering) during which
he was predominately a consultant for Montedison group
(Monfrini) –designing components for household appliances,
automobiles, trains, boats, helicopters, housing modules etc.–
he opened his own private studio in 1997; this studio
concentrated on industrial product design, and related product
development; he then began to work with various organizations
and companies such as Abet Laminati, Turmix Elektro Apparate,
Biffi Luce, Scaroni, Microsoft Italia, Brandani, Affaba & Ferrari –
working on packaging projects–, Ferrero (brand “Estathé”),
Granarolo, Schweppes.
research in the design
sector: from “AutAut” to Microsoft
“Personal Viewer”
■ Looking beyond the design and educational activities he is
also interested in the research on industrial products and in the
existing relations between industry, society, environment, as
well as in the material culture. In 1992, while working with ENI,
he invented the idea “Aut-Aut”, derived from Latin “either or”, a
prototype for a low environmental impact vehicle for the city.
Other research included the design of “Divo”, a device for
collecting, sorting, and compacting household rubbish (1996);
this design won the Replastic (a consortium of Italian companies
focused on plastics recycling) competition for redesigning the
kitchen and recycling of rubbish. In 2002 he led the research
project “Something Personal” (shown at the 2002 SMAU
exhibition and introduced by an article by Bill Gates); working
for Microsoft Italia at SPD, he was tasked with developing a
“Personal Viewer”; “Le Cahier”, one of the proposed concepts,
won the XI Targa Bonetto SMAU Industrial Design Award.
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