He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Tolomeo Museum in Bologna at the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind in Bologna. He is co-author of the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Milan and author of the Museum of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
Bologna
fabiofornasari@gmail.com
Building devices to display and narrate stories of value using museographic projects and installations, and learning environments. Assembling and disassembling content to develop social innovation. Projects that have a relational dimension: they engage the public within dynamics of cognitive and sensory interaction. Alongside psychologists and pedagogists, he develops cutting-edge educational models.
He is an associate researcher for IRPPS – Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies and collaborates with other research institutes of CNR – National Research Council
He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Tolomeo Museum in Bologna at the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind in Bologna
He is co-author of the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Milan and author of the Museum of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
Recently, he curated the exhibition Touching Beauty – Maria Montessori and Bruno Munari
Projects of spaces that narrate modernity
• 2006 – Gallery of Modern Art, Museum of the Nineteenth Century, Via Palestro, Milan
• 2010 – Museum of the Twentieth Century, Arengario, Piazza Duomo, Milan
Projects of spaces that narrate the future
• 2008 – Lucania Lab, Second Life (virtual) – APT Basilicata
• 2011 – PIXAR Exhibition – PAC Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Via Palestro, Milan
• 2018 – PIXAR Exhibition – Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome
Projects of spaces that link our classical origins to our present
• 2012 – Antiquarium Museum of the artifacts from the Baths of Caracalla, Rome
• 2013 – AUGUSTUS Exhibition, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
• 2015 – Antiquarium Museum of Villa di Livia, Rome
Projects that narrate the culture of the Italian landscape
• 2015 – Reconstruction of the Lauretum and landscape arrangements for Villa di Livia – Prima Porta, Rome
• 2015 – Biodiversity Park – Thematic Area – Expo Milano 2015
• 2016 – Contemporary Migrant Herbarium – Academy of Agriculture – Cubiculum Artistarum – Archiginnasio Library, Bologna
• 2017 – The City That Did Not Know It Was a Herbarium, Tolomeo Museum, Bologna
• 2017 – Tactile Herbarium, 1000 Years of Herbaria to Touch, Tolomeo Museum, Bologna
Work in social innovation
• 2012 – Diffused Museum of the City of Patti, Messina
Scientific interventions and installations
• 2011-2013 – Installations for the Researchers’ Night with IRPPS-CNR
• 2012-2019 – Design and participation in conferences, exhibitions, and workshops with IRPPS for the Genoa Science Festival
Projects of immersive spaces and cognitive devices
• 2015 – Tolomeo Museum – Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna
• 2017 – Atelier Tolomeo – Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna
Learning environment projects
• 2017 – Atelier Tolomeo Museum – Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna
• 2018 – A Room All for A. – Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna
• 2020 – Touching Beauty, Maria Montessori, Bruno Munari – Omero Museum, Ancona
