{"id":6490,"date":"2026-02-18T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:14:42","slug":"italian-radical-design-studio65-50-years-of-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2026\/02\/italian-radical-design-studio65-50-years-of-future\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALIAN RADICAL DESIGN \u2013 STUDIO65 \u2013 50 Years of Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the<strong> Italian Design Day 2026,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0the<strong> Consulate of Italy in Brisbane, <\/strong>with the support of the<strong>\u00a0Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>Consulate General of Italy in Sydney<\/strong>, is organizing a public lecture by architects\u00a0<strong>Franco Audrito<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Athena Sampaniotou<\/strong>, founders of\u00a0<strong>Studio65<\/strong>, an experimental and vanguard group that revolutionized design in Italy from the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, in English, will be held on the\u00a0<strong>27th February<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0<strong>Edge Auditorium of the Queensland State Library. <\/strong>A\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Divano Bocca&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0will be on display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.humanitix.com\/italian-radical-design-studio-65-50-years-of-future?_gl=1*1fmhx9a*_gcl_au*OTc5NjcwMzguMTc2NzYwMjM2Mg..*_ga*MjIyODAwMzY1LjE3Njc2MDIzNjQ.*_ga_LHKW5FR9N6*czE3NzEyMjQ1MTkkbzYkZzEkdDE3NzEyMjU2MTUkajM2JGwwJGgw\">Admission is free, but reservations are required through our Humanitix profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday, 27 February 2026<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>5:00 PM Welcome<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>5:30 PM Lecture moderated by Consul Luna Angelini Marinucci, followed by a Q&amp;A session<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland, 31 Cultural Center Tunnel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biographical Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Studio65 was founded in Torino by Franco Audrito in 1965. An experimental vanguard group which, through its ironic and irreverent design, participated actively in the revolution of cultural and architectural languages during a season (\u201960 \u2013\u201970) of liberation in creativity and imagination, interpreting these times of change with objects (Bocca sofa, Capitello, Mela) and architectures which are still nowadays a fresh testimonial of this revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the \u201870s, Franco Audrito and Studio65 ventured abroad, moving in and around new architectural languages throughout the world with the same freedom, imagination and curiosity for knowledge, operating in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, where they still currently work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the occasion of the Italian Design Day 2026,\u00a0\u00a0the Consulate of Italy in Brisbane, with the support of the\u00a0Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney\u00a0and the\u00a0Consulate General of Italy in Sydney, is organizing a public lecture by architects\u00a0Franco Audrito\u00a0and\u00a0Athena Sampaniotou, founders of\u00a0Studio65, an experimental and vanguard group that revolutionized design in Italy from the 1960s and 1970s. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consbrisbane.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}