Wohngespräche: Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli [2050+]

Michael Obrist [feld72] in conversation with Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli [2050+] about "Drifting – across design, technology, the environment and politics"

Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli
Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli is an architect and curator based in Milan. He is the founder of the interdisciplinary agency 2050+ whose work moves across technology, environment, politics, and design. Latest projects include the research films Riders Not Heroes I and II and the exhibition Aquaria at MAAT in Lisbon. Ippolito most recently curated Open, the Russian Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, and co-edited the accompanying collection Voices (Towards Other Institutions), which puts forward alternative forms of constituencies and collectiveness. In 2018 He co-curated Manifesta’s 12th edition, The Planetary Garden: Cultivating Coexistence, taking place in Palermo. Between 2007 and 2020 he has worked as an architect and partner at OMA/AMO, where his work focused on preservation, scenography, and curation. Ippolito teaches at the Royal College of Arts in London Data Matter, a research and design studio exploring the entangled relationship between data and the material world.