Stefano Mirti
a cancellato UNIFORM project that investigates how different people and communities think beyond their disciplines to open new cultural perspectives
WRITTEN BY FRANCESCA DEL BOCA
PHOTOGRAPHED BY FEDERICA COCCIRO
“If I get bored, that's the end: this means that I am always busy with a thousand different things. I read, think, invent board games, send lots of postcards, letters and Letterine. And then I curate an exhibition, build a house in Bangkok together with Racha, and then we plan another one in the mountains bordering Myanmar to be built in the coming year. We meet around the world: we have been living like this for twenty-five years, ever since I first met her in Tokyo.”
“While eating, I read newspapers. I like the smell and the physical sensation of turning the pages. When I can I go to bed very early, I don't like staying up late, I feel like I'm dissipating my time. An evening spent at home alone going to bed early is the absolute. At the same time I have a dense life full of appointments, contacts, social occasions, travel of all kinds. It sounds like a contrast, an opposition: it really isn't. I am a loner who does not like loneliness, that's it.”
“By teaching I feel like I'm actively contributing to society, I feel like I'm changing something, leaving some kind of mark. And it always forces me to learn, every day. Without ever stopping. Or almost.”
Designer, teacher, partner of IdLab. For years engaged in the new frontiers of teaching: Design 101, Relational Design, and many other educational and training projects. Of the many projects, the most recent is Moodboard (2022), a card game that is also a theory manifesto. Since September 2017, director of the Scuola Superiore di Arte Applicata in Milan. On 20 February 2018 he starts the daily publication of Letterine. @stefi_idlab on Instagram; the Facebook page is the great archive of a thousand suggestions, references, ideas. Le Letterine is the newsletter; the full curriculum can be found on Linkedin.
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