Francesca Gattello is the professor of Design History & Modern Crafts for the Master program in Design and Applied Arts.
Francesca Gattello is a Social Designer based in Palermo, Italy. She graduated from the Politecnico of Milan in Interior and Industrial Design. Her work challenges the established system of design through an experience-based approach that combines theory and grounded practice. Her projects have been exhibited in major institutions such as the Triennale Design Museum Milano, Venice Biennale, Manifesta Palermo, Design Basel, ADI Design Museum. She has been a lecturer, guest professor, and collaborator with institutions such as TU Wien, DAAS - Royal Institute of Art, Fondazione Studio Rizoma, University of Stuttgart - Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, TH Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Palermo, Critical Urbanism - University of Basel, Politecnico of Milan, Ensad École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and many others. She currently teaches at MADE Program in Syracuse and Abadir in Catania. She has written for magazines such as Domus, Panteon, and Art of the Working Class. In 2015 she co-founded Marginal Studio, a collective that explores the margins of design discipline and the roles it can play in the making of societies. In 2020 she co-founded LOTs - Libero Osservatorio Territoriale sud, an NGO fostering social innovation in marginalized urban and rural areas in Sicily through alternative storytelling practices.
