Sydney – On the occasion of the 3rd Italian Design Day in the World and the Sydney Design Festival 2019, the Italian Institute of Culture in Sydney will host a symposium with the architect Arturo Tedeschi, on March 7th, from 18:00 at its headquarters. Arturo Tedeschi, architect and computational designer based in Milan, will participate in the symposium dedicated to the Sydney Design Festival 2019, Accessing Design with Berto Pandolfo, industrial designer and Director of the Product Design course at UTS; Paolo Stracchi, Architectural Engineer and Reader in Architectural Technology at Sydney University; and Nico Pietroni, Senior Lecturer of the Software School at UTS. The symposium programme will include the following interventions: ‘Hypermeritocracy in architecture and design’ of architect Arturo Tedeschi, ‘Italian companies dedicated to product design: from humble workshops to international brands’ by Professor Berto Pandolfo,’Open process: the Italian way to realise a structural design’ by Doctor Paolo Stracchi and ‘Engineering and Imagination: from advanced design to manufacturing industry’ by Dr. Nico Pietroni. (9Colonne)