Photo: An inspiring visit to Lyall’s Bookshop Todmorden.

About..

Fabrizio Cocchiarella is a designer, lecturer and researcher, currently course leader for MA Interiors and academic lead for the design departments collaborative curriculum Unit X & Design Context, at Manchester School of Art.

Projects aim to investigate new approaches to design that contribute to innovating and shaping future scenarios for the designed environment. Specialist expertise and experience is routed in the production and manufacture of product, furniture, artefact and installation projects. The discipline of design is viewed as an interface from which to mediate and translate critical methodologies and commercial practices. 

Through collaboration as part of the design research community and through platforms such as D∀RK and UFƟ, research aims to explore a multi-specialist approach to develop new ‘ways of seeing’ and interpreting the encounter of everyday phenomena. Design practice aims to produce insightful, thought provoking work, creating projects that are not necessarily using the language of design norms, but rather re-inventing ways of looking at and experiencing our relationship with the physical (and metaphysical) through ‘para-design’.