Raffaello Biagetti

Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna in 1940, Raffaello Biagetti was a designer, researcher, and curatorial figure who conceived design as a cultural practice, a living archive, and a tool for knowledge. In 1968, he founded Design Club in Ravenna, a place for research and dialogue between design, collection, and experimentation. This vision found its full expression in 1988 with the creation of the Museo dell'Arredo Contemporaneo, conceived to chronicle the evolution of Italian and international industrial production. The collection, built between 1880 and 1980, reflects an approach in which architecture, exhibition design, and design interact: from Piero Castiglioni's theatrical sets to Gae Aulenti's platforms, to the expansion designed by Ettore Sottsass with Johanna Grawunder. With the opening of Futurarium in the early 1990s, Biagetti strengthened the museum's educational dimension, transforming it into a permanent laboratory for dialogue between designers, students, and artisans. His work defines itself as a continuous bridge between design, education, and memory, capable of connecting generations, languages, and design practices.