ABOUT ME

'I am one of those who still thinks that Design will save the world.'

Born on 12th January 1981 in Florence (Italy), after the high school studies (focus on economics & foreign languages) he took a degree in Marketing, Trend Research and New Media, where he developed a thesis on the artistic work of Vanessa Beecroft and the symbiotic relations between art and fashion focusing on artistic movements such as Body Art and Post Human. Schoolarship awarded, he attended a 13 months full
English spoken MBA, focused on Strategic Design Management that Domus Academy (Milan) organised in partnership with SDA Bocconi and the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea. The Master thesis 'Broadband: creative democratiser'; catalysed the attention on the rise of creative and collaborative culture of User Generated Content. Final Mark: Distinction.

In 2005 he moved to Rome working as Experience Designer for Kanso, an Innovation Consultancy founded by Andrea Granelli, ex CEO of Telecom Italia Net. At Kanso, Giacomo worked with the Rome Municipality developing a Tourist Access Gate / Multimedia Museum at the Imperial Forum. At the end of 2005 Giacomo collaborated with Park, an Advanced Design Management agency based in Hamburg (Germany) and in The Netherlands, in quality of Strategic Designer for two consulting projects. The first in Barcelona for Levi's Europe, creating 'The face of the Brand&'. The second project, for German kitchen producer SieMatic, focused on a B2b communication strategy for the launch of their new kitchen: the S1.

In 2006 he moved to London working for Contagious Magazine, an award-winning but globally oriented Magazine, DVD, online resource, newsletter, strategic consultancy and events organiser specializing in the most innovative excercises in branding, non conventional marketing, design, technology and popular culture. After 16 months of intense work as Senior Researcher, Editor and Strategic Consultant, he moved to Ninja Marketing managing a Diesel account, developing a strategy to create a niche Social Network of cool hunters. Besides Ninja Marketing, Giacomo teaches non traditional marketing strategies @ the Master in Business Design, Domus Academy and the Master in Marketing Innovation, Accademia di Comunicazione, both in Milan.

He's currently engaged in disco_nnect. disco_nnect is a music and digital art festival; disco_nnect is pure expressive avant-garde; it's the courage to create an event in line with the major European festivals, the bravery to explore with sounds and colours in a showcase of the most exciting alternative and experimental artists from all over the world in the mesmerizing frame of Forte Bazzera, Venice - Mestre, in concomitance with the Biennale dell'arte' and the Mostra Internazionale di Arte Cinematografica' in Venice. Even though mobile and internet platforms are increasingly perceived not as devices that remove the users from the physical world but as new empowering tools that bridge both worlds into one, digital social networks can’t substitute the intimacy of face-to-face communications; we strongly believe that the real socialisation still needs to be searched off-line. Our world is changing due to the ever-growing digitalisation; borders are coming down, information is getting faster, communication is key, inside this infinite virtual universe we are loosing ourselves and we are loosing human connections. disco_nnect to the near-forgotten off-line world and take a deep breathe as you realise your body is made of blood, not bytes.

Line-up 2009: Royksopp, LCD Soundsystem, A Certain Ratio, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Glimmers, Ebony Bones!, Little Dragon, Principles of Geometry and many many more. Sponsors: Nokia, Red Bull, Bacardi, Rizla, Franklin & Marshall, Amazon Life, Ministro della Gioventu’, Municipality of Venice. Media Partners: LastFm, SamuraiFm, Rolling Stone Magazine, Zero, Rodeo, Radio PoPopolare, Fuori Biennale, Some numbers: more than 12000 participants / 50.000 unique visitors on the website / 8000 fans on Facebook / 30.000 friends on MySpace / 500 followers on Twitter / more than 400.000 results on Google / 200 features in newspaper, magazines, blogs / 200 videos uploaded on Youtube.

Interests

Contemporary art, Photography, Poetry, Base Jumping, Travelling, food and wine,

• arts
• culture
• poetry
• design
• fashion
• contemporary art
• photography
• body art
• festivals
• dining
• wine
• technology
• traveling
• music
• camping
• business
• communications
• economics
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: everything from Thievery Corporation to Suicide, I love Punk Funk, the madchester scene with New Order, Happy Mondays, and then all the no wave from New York such as liquid liquid, james chance and the contortions

Movies: all the south korean directors such as Kim ki dum, Won kar wai and Park Chan-wook. Then all the hitchcock, Fellini, Pasolini, Fritz Lang, movies

Books: Henri Miller, Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, Dante, Oliver Sacks and many many others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hammock Camping in one of the most remote and wild place on earth, Pantanal in Mato Grosso (Brasil)

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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