Research Institute on Population and Social Policies

Fabio Fornasari

He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Ptolemy Museum of Bologna at the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind in Bologna. He is co-author of the Museo del Novecento in Milan and author of the Museum of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome

Bologna

fabiofornasari@gmail.com

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Curriculum Vitae

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Building devices to show and tell stories of value using museographic projects and installations, and learning environments. Assemble and disassemble contents to develop social innovation. Projects that have a relational dimension: they involve the public within the dynamics of cognitive and sensory interaction. psychologists and pedagogists develops frontier educational models.

He is associate researcher for IRPPS - Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies and collaborates with other research institutes of the CNR - National Research Council

He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Ptolemy Museum of Bologna at the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind in Bologna
He is co-author of the Museo del Novecento in Milan and author of the Museum of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome

Lately he oversaw the preparation of the exhibition Touching Beauty - Maria Montessori and Bruno Munari

Projects

Space projects that tell the story of modernity

• 2006 - Gallery of Modern Art, Museum of the nineteenth century, Via Palestro, Milan

• 2010 - Museo del Novecento, Arengario, Piazza Duomo, Milan

Space projects that tell the future

• 2008 - Lucania Lab, Second Life (virtual) - APT Basilicata

• 2011 - PIXAR Exhibition - PAC Contemporary Art Pavilion, Via Palestro. Milan

• 2018 - PIXAR Exhibition - Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome

Space projects that link our classical origins to our present

• 2012 - Antiquarium Museum of the finds of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome

• 2013 - AUGUSTO Exhibition, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome

• 2015 - Villa di Livia Antiquarium Museum, Rome

Projects that tell the culture of the Italian landscape

• 2015 - Reconstruction of the Lauretum and landscaping 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, Museo Tolomeo, Bologna

• 2017 - Tactile herbarium, 1000 years of herbaria to touch. Ptolemy Museum, Bologna

I 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 - Conception and participation in conferences, exhibitions and laboratories with IRPPS for the Genoa Science Festival

Immersive space projects and cognitive devices

• 2015 - Ptolemy Museum - Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna

• 2017 - Atelier Tolomeo - Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna

Learning environment projects

• 2017 - Atelier Ptolemy Museum - Cavazza Institute for the Blind, Bologna

• 2018 - Room entirely for A. - Cavazza Institute of the Blind, Bologna

• 2020 - Touching beauty, Maria Montessori, Bruno Munari - Omero Museum, Ancona