Giorgetto Giugiaro

Founder and designer of Italdesign

Car Designer of the Century

One of celebrities in Automotive Hall of Fame
 

Giorgetto Giugiaro，Born in 1938 in a small town of Italy, Garessio，is a world renowned car designer，founder of Italdesign. He is known as the “Design Master of the 20^th Century” and was granted the highest honor of Royal Academy of Arts, The Laurea Honoris Causa for Design in 1984.

Time

18:00 - 19:00  Oct. 17, 2016 

Place

Dark Room, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University

No. 1230, Siping Road

Moderator

LOU Yongqi

LOU Yongqi, Dean of Tongji D&I, full professor, selected as young scholar by China’s prestigious ‘Changjiang Scholars Program’. His main research focuses on social design and sustainable design. He plays an active role in promoting interdisciplinary sustainable design education, research and practice globally. Yongqi is an editorial board member of Design Issues (MIT Press), executive editor-in-chief of the first issue of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economy and Innovation. He also serves on the Board of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), Vienna Applied Arts University in Austria, etc.