Cristina Dosio

Cristina Dosio Morozzi: two years of architecture in Florence, degree in philosophy in Florence, specialization in psychology at the Policlinico in Milan (Prof. Cesa Bianchi). Research activity in the field of piscolinguistics with the CNR of Rome. She moved to Milan, where she started her journalistic career as a collaborator of the technical fashion monthly Gap Italia. Then a full-time freelance journalist for design, fashion, furniture, science, business and current affairs newspapers. Progressive specialization in the field of design. Concept and organization of exhibitions: Neodesign-October 1996; Neoarte in collaboration with Franco Bolelli in March 1987 (Milanovendemoda); I modi del design at the Triennale di Milano in 1987 and then in Dusseldorf in 1988; Immobili- 1989; I meraviglianti-1991; Totem domestici-1992) at La mia casa di Milano. Room with view with Karim Azzabi in Abitare il tempo di Verona in 1993 and Ecoway with Serena Omodeo in Abitare il tempo in 1995. Curator of the exhibition "La casa di Oz" and "Design in tavola" at La mia casa (November 1998); "La casa di carta" with Teresa Sapey at La mia casa (November 1999), "Neo plastic" with Riccardo Giovanetti (2000) and Alluminia (2001) at La mia casa di Milano. Curator of the book "Linee d'acqua" (Miller Freeman 2000) and of the homonymous exhibition promoted by Mostra Convegno expocomfort (Fiera di Milano, March 2000).

Collaborator, from the first issue until 1987, of the design monthly Gap Casa, the monthly AD Italia from the first issue until 1987 and the monthly La Mia casa (many articles have been signed under pseudonyms). From 1987 to 1996, she was editor-in-chief of the monthly design magazine Modo. Collaborator in 1995 of the daily newspaper La Voce. Director from 1995 to 1997 of DE (Driade editions) Design consultant for Casaviva
(Mondadori) from 1997 to 2010. She was head of design for Flair Living, a monthly lifestyle magazine (Mondadori). She has been co-author of MFF magazine (fashion) and MFL (living). She has been collaborator of The Plan, a quarterly architecture magazine, correspondent of Intramuros (France) and Experimenta (Spain) and collaborator of Affari&Finanza. (Repubblica) She is a collaborator of Interni, of Esquire and chief editor of the blog The moodboarders.

Author of contributions to numerous books on design and exhibition catalogues, she has held conferences on design in Italy and abroad. She has lectured on design and fashion design at the Domus Academy in Milan. She has been a consultant for special projects related to the art of Staff International (clothing manufacturer); commissioner of the design section at the 2000 Turin Youth Biennial. Consul (assistant to the curator) of the First Biennial of Applied Arts in Matera "Mater-Materia".

Curator of the exhibition "Archizoom now" at the Museum of Design in Lisbon as part of Experimenta, the first Biennale of Portuguese design (1999). Consultant of Pitti image of Florence, has curated, among other things, the installations "Clothes-Habitation" by Lucy Orta (January 2000), "Furnishing the body-Clothing space" by Bless (June 2000) "In transparency" (January 2001), Artagrumi, an installation made with orange maps by the French artist Stephane Marcault (June 2001), "Casaderme" (January 200), the house that breathes, an installation by Matali Crasset in Lycra . With Giovanna Talocci he curated the exhibition Water bar at Abitare il Tempo in Verona. (October 2001) Curator of the exhibition of applied arts "Torino 1902-2002 Le manifatture aristocratiche (Torino December 2002/February 2003) She was professor of design theory at the Ecole Cantonale d'art de Lausanne.) until June 2012 Ideator and curator of Pitti Living, a new concept fair dedicated to accessories (fashion and design) for living (Milan, April 2004, 2005 and April 2006). She conceived and was art director of the Coincasadesign collection from 2007 to 2010, honorable mention at the Golden Compass 2011. Together with Stefania Ricci he curated the exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the brand: "Salvatore Ferragamo Evolving legend, 1928-2008" (March 28 Moca of Shanghai and from September 23 to November 9 at the Triennale di Milano, 2008). In 2009 he curated "The sensitive soul of things" at the Triennale Design Museum.

She was art director of the design brand Skitsch until December 2012. She was the coordinator of the design group of the Altagamma Foundation (2010-2013) for which she curated the photographic exhibition and related volume Italian Contemporary Excellence , (Shanghai, Milan, 2013). She was director of education from 2014 to 2016 at the Istituto Marangoni design in Milan, for which she is currently an international brand ambassador for fashion and design campuses. In 2018, she curated with the art direction of Stefano Giovannoni the exhibition in Seoul (Korea) Luna Park Design Island dedicated to playful design and in 2019 Leonardo Horse Project for the Milan Racecourse.

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Design of goods and services

Innovative technologies

Handicrafts
New materials
Aesthetics of forms
Ergonomics

Communication techniques and web and paper representations

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Trent’anni e più di design, Idea Books, Milano 1988

Monografia Anna Castelli Ferrieri Laterza, Bari, 1993

Reggisecolo, Idea Books, Milano, 1991

Scarperentola, Idea Books , Milano 1993

Imprevisto, Idea Books, Milano 1996

Contenitorio, Idea Books Milano,1998

Monografia Massimo Morozzi, Archivolto, Milano 1993

Mobili italiano contemporanei con Silvio San Pietro, Archivolto, Milano,1996

Segni e Disegni, Archivolto, Milano 1996

Autrice della voce Italia nel Dictionaire du design et des arts appliques, Edition du regard, Paris, 1997

Monograhie Andrea Branzi, Dis Voir, Paris,1997

Oggetti risorti, Costa&Nolan, Genova , 1998

Stile italiano, monografia su Pier Paolo Pitacco, Lupetti, Milano, 2000

Linee d’acqua, Miller Freeman, Milano, 2000

Monografia Carlo Rivetti ( CP Company- Stone Island), Stardust, Milano, 2001

Monografia Antonio Marras, Stradust , Milano, 2001

Radi designers à Vallauirs, Gardette Edtions, Nizza, 2001

Axolute Style tech, Milano, 2006

Piquadro tech Inside, Electa, Milano, 2006

Monografia Stefano Giovannoni, Electa, Milano, 2008

Monografia Konstantin Grcic, Sole 24 ore cultura, Milano, 2011

Monografia Philippe Starck, Sole 24 ore cultura, Milano, 2011

Damiani,Alchimia del desiderio Rizzoli International, 2014

Monografia Moreschi, Rizzoli International, 2014

Monografia Istituto Marangoni, Rizzoli International, 2014

Cucine Made in Italy, Rizzoli International, 2014

Terrific design, 24 ore cultura, Milano 2014

Terrific fashion, 24 ore cultura, Milano, 2015

Monografia Ferragamo, Moleskine, 2015

Monografia Antonio Marras, Moleskine, 2015

Autobiografia professionale ”Il design non è una cosa seria”, Rizzoli, Milano 2016

Leonardo primo designer, con Massimo Temporelli, Hoepli, Milano, 2019

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