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Daniele Pario Perra is a relational artist, researcher and designer engaged in exhibitions, research projects and teaching. His work ranges across different disciplines: art, design, sociology, anthropology, architecture and geopolitics. For some years now he has been exploring spontaneous creativity, cultural trends and patterns of urban development in a constant relationship between material culture and symbolic heritage.

In 2001 he started the Low-cost Design database,which contains over 7000 photographs of the transformations of objects and public spaces in Europe and around the Mediterranean. He studied the performances and rituals of street trading in Sicily in the Economic Borders project. He investigated spontaneous communication in various European cities with the Fresco Removals format, teaching people, in real urban actions, how to store notable examples of wall writing and graffiti before their cancellation.

His first monograph, Politics Poiesis, was published in 2005: it contains a long list of ideas, stimuli and projects devoted to contemporary art in urban contexts. Daniele Pario Perra has taught at the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome, at the Delft University of Technology and at the Milan Polytechnic. His workshops – Fantasy Saves the Planning, Art Shakes the Politics, Fresco Urban Removals, Design on the Cheap and Politics Poiesis – have many editions in major European cities. Between 2000 and 2010 he exhibited works, devised urban actions and coordinated projects between Rome, Milan, Turin, Sarajevo, Barcelona, Chicago, Rotterdam, Berlin,New York, Bern, Paris,Marseille, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Budapest and London.

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