Luca Alessandrini is an innovation design engineer
BIO
Luca Alessandrini grows up immersed in the world of design and entrepreneurship working as designer and project manager for Stilema s.r.l. from 2010 to 2015 traveling between China, Italy and Middle-East.
Intrigued by innovative disruptive processes and ideas generation, in 2014 Luca moves to London to join the double MSc/MA in Innovation Design Engineering between Royal College of Art and Imperial College.
On 2016, Luca patents an innovative approach to exploit the acoustic properties of natural composite materials. With the use of this technology, he designs a series of musical instruments built using a silk and spider silk composite obtaining international recognition and winning several awards.
On 2020, Luca became a funded PhD candidate at the Politecnico di Milano fostering his research previously developed working with natural materials; meanwhile he is consulting brands, designing and engineering innovative products with an aware perspective leading to sustainable production paths.
Luca Alessandrini cresce immerso nel mondo del design e dell'imprenditoria lavorando come designer e project manager per Stilema s.r.l. dal 2010 al 2015 viaggiando tra Cina, Italia e Medio Oriente.
Incuriosito dai processi innovativi dirompenti e dalla generazione di idee, nel 2014 Luca si trasferisce a Londra per partecipare al doppio MSc/MA in Innovation Design Engineering tra Royal College of Art e Imperial College.
Nel 2016, Luca brevetta un approccio innovativo per sfruttare le proprietà acustiche dei materiali compositi naturali. Con l'uso di questa tecnologia, progetta una serie di strumenti musicali costruiti utilizzando un composito di seta e seta di ragno ottenendo riconoscimenti internazionali e vincendo diversi premi.
Nel 2020 Luca diventa un dottorando di ricerca finanziato presso il Politecnico di Milano, sostenendo la sua ricerca precedentemente sviluppata lavorando con materiali naturali; nel frattempo è consulente di marchi, progettando e ingegnerizzando prodotti innovativi in un'ottica consapevole che porta a percorsi produttivi sostenibili.
AWARDS
In June 2020, Luca and his team were awarded for the project ES-TXT with the 2nd place at the “e se funzionasse“ innovation competition promoted by Confindustria Regione Marche, BPCube and The Hive Tech Incubators.
In October 2019, the products designed by Luca for the collective PensieroMateria have been selected by La Rinascente as part of the 9 designers (among 550) from the Salone Satellite to be exhibited in the Milano Piazza del Duomo store.
In May 2019, Luca was awarded receiving the international recognition “Associazione Nazionale Liutai Artistici Italiani AWARD” for researching new acoustic materials in the field of luthery.
In April 2019, Luca was awarded as a member of the SEVEN for the FUTURE being mentioned as one of the most promising young designers in Italy of 2018/19 by ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST magazine.
In October 2018, the project Oxygen-18 was awarded as Most Innovative Urban Planners 2018-Netherlands & Best Dutch Installation by BUILD Magazine.
In May 2017, Luca was awarded for his innovative approach in researching new acoustic materials for the field of luthery with the Andrea Postacchini International Price.
In November 2016, Luca won the International Student Innovation Award 2016 promoted by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. The award included a £10k research grant.
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