Alessandro Guerriero is the most versatile person in which I came across. His thought is a tireless tourist of the planet of creativity. Guerriero is Design.
He is one of the founders of TAM TAM School, which hereinafter tells us, a project of “non-school” design.
“TAM TAM School deals with visual activities and is not, first and foremost, a school, because it does not provide the most typical flow, which is the passage of concepts, models, techniques and methods by a small group that knows to a large group who does not.
TAM TAM School does not belong to the one who knows, not even the one who does not, is held by teachers and students. It takes place right up there with those who wish to discover and choose notions, pattern techniques and methods that are appropriate.
TAM TAM School does not have structure. It is not collective, it is not mandatory, it is not authoritative, it is not public, it is not bourgeois, it is not labor. It is not ideological. It does not provoke participation and even acculturation: does not transmit coded messages. Can be there or not: it is a natural event, when there leads to own and differentiated lifestyle behaviors. It is amoral, original, discontinuous, classic, unstructured. Its strategic goal is that every man can produce and consume its unpredictable mental activity as a phenomenon of spontaneous communication, alone or in groups. Its aim is the elimination of tactical educational institutions. It does not happen to accumulation, but to reset. His references are children, the avant-garde, the paranoid, the savages, humanists, ancient cultures, the classic distant.
TAM TAM School, particularly is not made of school buildings good or bad. Does not apply to fixed time in the classes, but it is latent everywhere. It is a virtual space, physical and mental, that you always have. TAM TAM School, ultimately, is the non-existence of the school itself.”
Short Biography: Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, president of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. In 1982 he was awarded with the Compasso d’Oro. It is one of the founders of Alchimia. He collaborated in the writing and art direction of the magazine Domus and was director of Decoration International. In 1988 he published OLLO – Rivista senza Messaggio (Magazine without Post). His works are exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, to Twentieth Century Design Collection and in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, the Groningen Museum in Holland, at the Louisiana Museum fur Moderne Kunst, the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Museum of Modern Art in Boston. He has lectured at numerous Italian and foreign universities. In 1995 he founded Futurarium and in 1996 the new studio Radiosity, and the same year took over the project of the new Museum Benetton with Oliviero Toscani. In 1997 he founded the Cooperative Granserraglio with some convicts on probation.
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