Valerio Rocco Orlando

Valerio Rocco Orlando (1978) is an artist, researcher, and professor.

He holds a PhD in Engineering-based Architecture and Urban Planning from Sapienza Universitą di Roma. He is the founder and director of the Scuola dei Sassi, a free, intercultural, and transpedagogical program launched in a state-owned property that the Municipality of Matera granted him for thirty years. He served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Basel. Since 2019, he has taught at the Brera Academy in Milan.

Through practices ranging from workshops to video installations, he conceives art as a mutual knowledge and understanding process. The heart of his research is the exploration of osmosis between institutions, territory, and the social sphere.