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Industrial Designer
About Mauro Livio
In 2019, Mauro Livio led the redesign of the modular kitchen system 'Ciclo', not as a feat of engineering alone, but as a narrative artifact tracing three generations of Italian home cooks. He embedded reclaimed terracotta tiles from demolished postwar housing into the countertop surface, each slab laser-etched with handwritten recipes and marginalia donated by families in Bologna. That project redefined industrial design’s role in cultural continuity: materials weren’t just selected for durability or sustainability, but for their capacity to hold memory. Livio treats every product brief as a script draft, where ergonomics must align with emotional cadence, and manufacturing constraints become plot devices. His studio keeps a physical archive of discarded prototypes not for iteration, but for oral history interviews with the factory workers who built them. This isn’t storytelling layered on top of design; it’s design that only exists because of the story it’s meant to carry forward.
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- “How did you source and ethically integrate those Bologna family recipes into Ciclo’s terracotta?”
- “What’s a material you’ve rejected mid-project because its backstory conflicted with the user’s lived experience?”
- “Can you walk me through how you storyboarded the emotional arc of the 'Lume' bedside lamp?”
- “Which Italian regional craft tradition most challenged your assumptions about scalability?”