Luca Poncellini
Design and Applied Arts Department Head and Communication and Graphic Design Area Leader ad interim
Design and Applied Arts Department Head and Communication and Graphic Design Area Leader ad interim
Luca Poncellini
<p><strong>Design and Applied Arts Department Head</strong></p> <p>Luca Poncellini is an architect and a designer with a PhD in the History of Architecture and City Planning. As a partner in the architecture office Cliostraat until 2009, he has curated projects and has lectured in Italy and in several countries throughout the world. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Van Alen Institute in New York, at ETH in Zürich, at MAGA in Gallarate and at Triennale Milano. In 2008 he co-curated the retrospective exhibition Laszlo Hudec, in collaboration with the Hungarian Consulate in Shanghai. Since 2013 he has been the Course Leader of the MA in Interior Design. Between 2015 and 2019 directed the research lab and the project C-Park. Since 2019 he has been Design and Applied Arts Department Head.</p> <p>Since 2026, he has been serving as Interim Communication and Graphic Design Area Leader.</p>
Claudio Larcher
Design Area Leader
Design Area Leader
Claudio Larcher
<p>Born in Milan, he graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. After a research period in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona, in 2002 he founded his own studio, Modoloco Design Workshop, a space for experimentation and research, where diverse cultures and experiences are implemented as architectural and design forms. He has taught at the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bozen, at Politecnico di Milano, and lectured in Italian and international institutions. He curated and participated in several exhibitions in Italy, Japan, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Sweden. Ambassador of Italian Design for Switzerland, Albany and Uruguay in 2017, 2018, 2019, he is the author of the books Globetrotting designers (Compositori), Design, scuola e solidarietà (Fausto Lupetti), Design from the Alps (Scheidegger Und Spiess), and Disegnare un cucchiaio per cambiare la città (Quodlibet).</p>
Dante Donegani
ASESOR DE DISEÑO DE NABA
ASESOR DE DISEÑO DE NABA
Dante Donegani
<p>Arquitecto y diseñador, después de un Master en Diseño en la Domus Academy trabajó con Marco Zanuso y Andrea Branzi y en la Identidad Corporativa de Olivetti. En 1993, fundó el estudio D&L con Giovanni Lauda, trabajando en varios campos del diseño. Ha diseñado productos de hogar y oficina para Isuzu, Memphis, Stildomus, Luceplan, Edra, Kelebek, Rotaliana, Radice, Viceversa. Sus proyectos más célebres incluyen: <em>Lisca </em>(Rotaliana, premio IF Product Design 2005); Multipot (Rotaliana, mención en el XXI Compasso d’Oro 2008); la chaise longue <em>Passepartout</em>, (Edra), en la colección permanente del MoMA de San Francisco y de Triennale Milano; <em>Agronica</em>, con Andrea Branzi, en la colección del Centro Pompidou de París. Su obra se ha expuesto en la Bienal de Barcelona, el Centro Pompidou, la Triennale Milano y la Biennale di Venezia. Dirigió el Máster en Diseño de la Domus Academy y forma parte del Profesorado de NABA desde 2013.</p>
Maurizio Scalzi
Course Leader de los MAs en Interior Design y Product and Service Design
Course Leader de los MAs en Interior Design y Product and Service Design
Maurizio Scalzi
<p>Maurizio Scalzi compagina la práctica arquitectónica con la investigación académica, aunando las necesidades pragmáticas del diseño con un profundo conocimiento histórico del espíritu del <em>Made in Italy</em>. Su trayectoria profesional incluye su experiencia como Associate Architect en Wurmfeld Associates durante cuatro años en Nueva York, seguida de una colaboración fundamental de seis años con Ettore Sottsass en Milán.</p> <p>Esta doble experiencia influye en su trabajo actual en StudioScalzi, y concibe la docencia como una extensión natural de su práctica profesional. A lo largo de su carrera académica, ha impartido clases en SPD, RUFA, el Politecnico di Milano y la Beirut Arab University.</p> <p>En NABA, donde imparte clases en programas internacionales desde 2007, es Design Lecturer y Course Leader del Master of Arts in Interior Design y del Master of Arts in Product and Service Design. Anteriormente, también fue Course Leader del Academic Master in New Urban Design.</p> <p>Sus publicaciones, entre ellas <em>The Harmonic Integration of Culture and Skills in Design</em> y <em>We Like Milano</em>, reflejan su convicción de que el diseño va mucho más allá de la estética y representa una síntesis interdisciplinar de cultura, conocimientos técnicos y conciencia social.</p>