Federico RUBERTO (Dr)

Federico Ruberto is a writer and designer working between philosophy and design. He holds a PhD [summa cum laude] in “Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought” from the European Graduate School, an inquiry on the concept of “contingency” in formal/natural languages. He researches, produces and curates textual and material projects that intersect digital (platforms) and physical space (buildings), spatial structures (planetary urbanism), political economy, technology (of self) and (artificial) ecology. His investigations explore the potentials/problematics of the current computational paradigms, scrutinising the hyper, multi-scalar processes that exponentially virtualise the “self”, the “world(s), and language.

He is a co-founder/partner of formAxioms (formaxioms.com), a Singapore based laboratory that investigates alternative processes of urbanisation and that speculates through cultural projects how virtual-augmented modes are impacting “presence”, “agency” and “space”. He is also a co-founding partner of reMIX Studio (remixstudio.org), architectural office operating in Beijing with built projects that have been published worldwide, included in several exhibitions, among which the 14th Venice Biennale - “Across Chinese Cities Pavillion”. With formAxioms Federico co-curated in 2021 the art exhibition “Negentropic Fields”, a project developed for“Novel Ways of Being”, part platform and part located at the National Gallery Singapore. In the same year he also developed for National Gallery Singapore and Y-Lab the project titled “Common Landscape”. In 2019 he curated “Mapping the Invisible: Para-Consistency, Design and Fiction”, part of “City of Streams” a sub-venue of the “Eyes of the City”, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen.
Federico’s essays have been published among others by Routledge (UK), dpr-barcelona (Spain), Mimesi (Italy), Riverside Architectural Press (Canada), Monograph-List lab (Italy) and Tsinghua University Press (China).

He has presented his research at international venues among which the 2021 EPFL-SUTD, “Deep City Symposium”, the 2019 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, “Artificial Realities: Virtual as an Aesthetic Medium for Architectural Ideation”, the“Postcards from the Anthropocene” (Edinburgh 2107), R.E.D.S at La Sapienza (Rome 2013), and the “Future of Cities Forum” (Beijing 2016).

He currently teaches design studios and Contemporary Theories at the National University of Singapore. Previously he directed studios at SUTD (Singapore), where in 2019 he served as a lead researcher for the SUTD-MIT IDC founded grant “Territorial Strategies and Urban Prototypes in South-East Asia”. When living in China he taught at the Landscape Urbanism program at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and he was instructor at “Processes of Abstraction” at IFC Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has tutored at workshops in China (Beijing, Dalian, Zhengzhou and Changsha) and in India (Surat). He taught at the Architectural Association Visiting School in Beijing (2012) and co-directed a unit at the AAVS in São Paulo (2013).