(11 May 2017) Architect Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis, is currently the president of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, for which he has developed the new concept of the mutable museum as well as various publications about new Italian design, the masters and the new prospects of new design from other countries. He is the guest of honour at the Italian Institute of Culture in Vienna for "Not just trendy. The Italian design today" on Wednesday, May 17 - 19, at the IIC. Starting from his experience as designer, docent and President of the Triennale Design Museum; Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis will illustrate the emerging trends in the various fields of contemporary Italian design, and the offers available to the new generation of designers stemming from new techniques and more modern forms of professional organisation developed in recent years. (Red)

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Arturo Dell'Acqua Bellavitis is a Professor of Industrial Design at the Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, where he has served for over four years as Faculty Chair and as the Director of the Design Department for eight years. He is also the Director and Senior Professor of the Textile Design Degree Programme (Como Campus, Politecnico di Milano) and Manager of the Degree Programme in Fashion Design (Bovisa Campus, Politecnico di Milano). He is one of the founders of the Faculty of Design of the Politecnico di Milano and of the Doctoral Degree in Interior Design. He is also one of the founders and current President of the Milan Fashion Institute and the director of the History of Design Programme at the FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York and at the Politecnico di Milano.