Studio Gionata Gatto

10/06/2024

A face mask that is possessive with its wearer, a security camera that gets offended if you don’t greet it, a speaker that wants to be cuddled, a plug that refuses overconsumption. What do these devices have in common and what purposes do they have? This small exhibit I curated for reflects the work done by my students in the last 5 years, where we looked at objects beyond the lenses of commercial design, and towards those of the mis-functional, the uncanny, the ambiguous, the adversarial. -BehaviouralThings is on display at building 4, in Dubai Design District, until the end of the June.

10/06/2022

Coloniae, for JCP Universe, On Dubai's The National. Thanks Maghie Ghali for the interview and article:

The Milan design show returns — but be careful where you sit

12/04/2022

Could plants take us over? Preview of Coloniae, the new work designed for JCP Universe, for Salone del Mobile.Milano 2022:

Designed for JCP Universe, Coloniae is a collection of objects that explore the relationship between man and plant and will be presented at Salone del Mobile 2022

10/01/2022

Happy to share the book chapter: "Within the Metabolic Network", which I wrote for the book: "From Human-Centered To More-Than-Human-Design. Exploring The Transition", just published by Francoangeli. The entire book is open access and can be downloaded here:

Released under the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) in the peer reviewed series Design International.

21/05/2020

Product Design final presentations today at Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation!

17/10/2018

If you're going to be around Wageningen tomorrow, join us at the 'Earth Futures' symposium at WUR. I'm happy to be one of the speakers discussing possible design stances on the Anthropocene. Free reservations available here:

'Earth Futures’ is a unique 1-day symposium that brings together WUR researchers and internationally renowned speakers to debate earth system transformations, from both natural and social science perspectives. Wageningen University and Research has a long history in contributing to the interdiscip...

11/10/2018

HELLO-FUTURE è bel un progetto, prodotto da Logotel e Cisco, per ispirare i giovani su possibili scenari di lavoro futuri.
Sono felice che la mia esperienza da designer sia stata una tra quelle scelte per rappresentarlo, magari per qualche 'giovane' sarà interessante... qui il video e l'intervista fatti in studio:

Per Gionata, design significa sapere vedere gli oggetti, la natura e quello che ci circonda. Non crea solo un oggetto: lo rende diverso, gli dà una funzione diversa da quella che ci aspetteremmo e ci racconta una storia, creando una realtà inaspettata

23/02/2018

It's a big pleasure to participate to the second edition of the Italian Design Day, together with Francesca Lanzavecchia, as ambassador of Italian design in Geneve! Looking forward to the 6th of March, at the , where we'll give a speech about our work:

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève – Cinéma Dynamo – Art vidéo contemporain en Chine: un panorama. Soirée de projection le mardi 16 janvier, 19h. 
Apéritif dès 18h30. Projection en boucle du 17 janvier au 18 février 2018.