Fabio Gigone

Fabio Gigone (1978), graduated in Architecture at the IUAV in Venice, was co-founder of Salottobuono till 2012 when the collaboration between its six co-founders ended. As partner of this architectural office, born as a collector of research experiences and design production, he served as editor of the Instructions and Manuals section of Abitare magazine (2007-10) and as Creative Director of Domus magazine (2011-12). He published the Manual of Decolonization (2010) and was contributor at La Biennale di Venezia-Architecture (2008, 2012) while in 2010 he worked as Art Director of the Italian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia. He has a strong background in architecture and exhibition design (among the others La Biennale di Venezia, Milano Design Week, Frankfurt Light + Building, Palazzo Reale in Milan, Macro in Rome, Superfront in LA, Hong Kong Biennal, Shenzhen Biennal, Istanbul Biennal, BOZAR Bruxelles) and he has been involved in several dissemination activities. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of architects and photographers he founded San Rocco Magazine in 2010. He was Contract Professor at IUAV in Venice within the Summer Workshop (2009, 2010), at ISIA in Urbino in the School of Graphic Design (2009-2012); Associate Professor at NMBU within the Landscape and Spatial Planning Department of Ås, Norway (2015-2018) and Research Assistant at AAA, School of Architecture of Aarhus, Denmark (2015-2018).

He is currently Ph.D. Fellow at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark within the Centre for Privacy Studies.