Aldo Colonetti

Historian and theorist of art, design and architecture, the philosopher Aldo Colonnetti has studied with Enzo Paci and Gillo Dorfles.
He has been Scientific Director of the IED - Istituto Europeo Design (1985-2013) and since 2014 a well-known professor at the Politecnico di Milano, faculty of Design. Director of the magazine "Ottagono" (1991-2015) and member of the Scientific Committee of Triennale di Milano (2002-2006), also member of the ADI Presidency Committee (1991-1992; 1998-2002) and of the National Design Council, MiBACT (2008-2011). Colonnetti has received the title of Member of the British Empire (2000) for cultural merits. Author of essays, curator of exhibitions and cultural initiatives in Italy and abroad, including La logica dell'approssimazione, nell'arte e nella vita (with Gillo Dorfles), at the XXI Triennale di Milano (2016). He collaborates with "Il Corriere della Sera" from 2004 and is part of the Advisor Board of the Fondazione 3M and Fondazione Gualtiero Marchesi. In 2013 he becomes a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, and from 2015 of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Henraux.