Vanni Pasca, Professor of History of Design from 1998 to 2008, he was chairman of the Bachelor Course and the Master Course in Design for the Mediterranean area at the University of Palermo, where he was also coordinator of the PhD in Industrial Design. From 2008-9 he teaches Contemporary designers at Politecnico di Milano, Design at IULM and History of Design at ISIA in Florence. He’s president of the Italian Association of Design Historians. He leads the series of books * Design for the publisher Lupetti / Editori di comunicazione and he is director of the following magazines: the free magazine Design Review, Zerocento Editors, Palermo; the on-line magazine-www.palermodesign.it trough which he promoted in 2008 the first International Competition Mediterranean Design with a first exhibition and conference in Istanbul and a second edition in Barcelona in 2011.
He has been curator, among others, of the following exhibitions:
La cultura e i mobili degli Shaker, Milano 1984; Minimal design, Kortrijk 1995; Brasil faz design, Milano, São Paulo, Rio, Bahia 1996 e São Paulo, Milano, 1997 e 1998; Vico Magistretti, Milano 1997; Thirteen Years of Young Portuguese Design, Lisboa, settembre 1999; 1999 Italia- Europa/ scenari del giovane design europeo (con Giulio Cappellini), Verona, ottobre 1999, Oltre il design europeo- Progetti dal mondo, Verona 2000; Young Design from Israel, Triennale Milano 2004; Theater of Italian Creativity (con Gae Aulenti), New York 2003; Achille Castiglioni, Palermo 2004; 1978-2008: Made in Italy, National Museum, Brasilia 2008; Design Mediterraneo- Mediterranean Design, Istanbul 2009.
He has written or edited, among others, the following books:
Vico Magistretti- l’eleganza della ragione, Idea Books, Milano; Rizzoli International, New York; Thames and Hudson, London; Gustavo Gili, Barcelona; Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, 1991; Design: storia e storiografia, Esculapio, Bologna 1995; Arti applicate fra XVIII e XIX secolo: personaggi, fabbriche, eventi (a cura di), Appunti del Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Lupetti, Milano1996; Minimalismo-Etica delle forme e nuova semplicità nel design (con Fulvio Carmagnola), Lupetti, Milano 1996; Vico Magistretti, architetto e designer (con Fulvio Irace), Electa, Milano 1999, Christopher Dresser. Il primo industrial designer, Lupetti, Milano 2001. Scenari del giovane design- Idee e progetti dall’Europa e dal mondo, Lupetti, Milano 2002; Corporate image, Lupetti, Milano 2006.
