Antonio Scarponi
Founder of Conceptual Devices, Antonio Scarponi engages design as a critical practice. His work examines how design produces strategies, imaginaries, and forms of knowledge that expose contemporary social and cultural conditions.
His work has been published in international journals and platforms including Architectural Design, Domus, Abitare, Wired, Fast Company – Design, Designboom, and Design Habitat, and has been exhibited in international institutions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale and the MAK Vienna Biennale for Change. In 2008, his work received the Curry Stone Design Prize for pioneering socially engaged design practices.
He has taught and lectured internationally since 2005 and has been teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2013, where he is part of the MA Cultural Critique and Curatorial Studies. In 2023, he co-founded the Institute for Spatial Thinking to advance spatial design practices beyond disciplinary boundaries.