Biography
I was born in 63 ‘in Turin, my career was held in total independence: I started as musical instruments manufacturer (pipe organs and solid body), for about three years; later I was a fashion photographer. Then joined the entertainment field as technology and creative consultant, (sound, light, laser, large projection, video), for theater and large corporate events. Lather becoming designer of entire shows and their media contents, with the Fura dels Baus from Barcelona, where I lived for several years.
In 2001, in the aftermath of serious personal events, I decided to stop the profession and signed up again at university. In 2006, after graduating as children physiotherapist, I moved to Colombia where worked with orphans in Bogota for about a year. In 2007 went to Argentina, where I began to study permaculture with David Holmgren, Tony Anderson, Brock Dolman.
I visited some of the planet’s biomes: The Atlantic Forest, Amazonas, the Yunga, the Australia’s rainforest, New Zealand, north east of the United States, Vancouver Island, the north of Spain, the Balkans.
I undertook the long-term study of issues such as sustainability, economy, history of civilisations, the development of mankind, green building, complexity, etc.. I have always been interested in astronomy, physics, artistic expression, literature.
I’m familiar with popular editing software, using video, images, 2D and 3D graphics. I speak and write English, Italian, Spanish. I’m used to put ideas into practice: have designed and built houses, furnitures, musical instruments, big shows, artistic objects.
I have affinity with electricity and electronics, with machines and complex systems.
I am vegetarian cause like animals, and for my well-being.
I am, in short, a “conscious misfit” in the sense that my studies, made me aware of human nature: the predominance of the instincts, including violence, oppression, envy, speciesism, racism.
I do not condemn these impulses: they are the result of natural selection, the constant adaptive struggle between species and within the same. However I feel an unquenchable pain in participating the fight. For my constitution, I prefer cooperation to competition, generosity to genetic selfishness.
Sometimes I feel a certain weariness, a rejection toward the living sphere, of its rules which do not take account of individuals. These moments are generally constructive, converted into personal action.
Obviously the housing and lifestyle choice reflects these peculiarities: even if the social dimension is required from my nature, I have to switch between being in the human herd to a place where I can retire for periods of introspection and recovery, individual work or with familiar people. When I manage to maintain a balance between these aspects, and adding physical activity, I am well and cheerful.
I am cautious toward ideologies of all kinds: I understand they are part of human nature, are also filters that can obscure the perception of reality: engines of immense realisations as well as injustices.
