Prof Stefano Cardini is an architect, designer, and teacher with twenty years’ experience as a designer and consultant, working with major international organisations as well as with SMEs and private customers. His main focus is creating value through design, branding tools and storytelling with no thematic or methodological constraints, and paying the same continuous attention to the strategic and tactical aspects, the long-term vision, and the execution of each project.

As an educator, he has both designed and delivered courses and workshops about design applied to different fields, from interiors to communication, from interaction to services. For three years, he managed a Master Course, and for two years he has been the Chief Academic Officer of the biggest private design school in Italy. As a trainer/consultant, he has designed and implemented tools and communication techniques to help companies interpret present and future scenarios.

He also creates illustrations and drawings, as they are essential tools to visualise a project, support, and enrich each phase of a design process, from the initial idea to the concrete object. He designs with the same passion for physical objects and conceptual systems.

❝Curiosity is the transformative spark that drives human exploration, creation, and ultimately, evolution. To satisfy curiosity, communities of like-minded people come together, knowledge is shared, and new tools and perspectives are shaped. When curiosity is wise, it can be widely accepted; when it is radical, it can become disruptive. The role of designers is to find the right balance in their curiosity, keeping in mind the well-being of humanity and the environment.❞ — Prof Stefano Cardini on "Curiosity"

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