Even I, normally silent on this list, feel the need to express my sadness and condolences to the design culture world for the loss of Anna Calvera.
Anna was a dear friend, who taught me a lot about design and life with her example of humility, passion, and activism.
I met her in 2010 through Tevfick Balgioglu and Vanni Pasca, when we thought she was the perfect partner for a design project on Mediterranean Design.
She found the theme exciting and helped me to involve many people in the culture of design, and not only, from the Mediterranean realities.
She collaborated intensively on that project taking care of the Mediterranean Design exhibition at Design-Hub of Barcelona, and the International Design Conference for Mediterranean Countries Economic Development co-promoted by ADP, Asociación de Diseñadores Profesionales de España of which he was president at that time.
Since then we have found many opportunities for collaboration in her courses at the Bellas Artes School at the University of Barcelona and with her research group Gracmon.
Thank you to her for being an active member of the PAD journal scientific committee, where it is published one of the last articles she has been contributing:
A propos du Master 3D, Tunis 2013-17. Artisanat, design et territoire. The civilization matérielle au pluriel
by Anna Calvera, Debora Giorgi, Yosser Halloul, Insaf Khaled and Rosa Povedano.
In the last year, I met her in Barcelona for a meeting of a European research project proposal she had promoted, despite her illness, and in Milan during a visit for a medical consultation. In the last mounts, we kept in touch by email for the ICDHS conference, and telephone messages.
He never did weigh its conditions.
She leaves a great emptiness in my heart.
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Marinella Ferrara
Associate Professor, Coordinator of MADEC
Research Center of Material Design Culture
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Inviato: martedì 6 febbraio 2018 10:17:14
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Oggetto: Re: Professor Anna Calvera has passed away
A sad message that we no longer have Anna Calvera in among us.
An inspirational and wonderful person I have had the privilege of meeting a few times in Barcelona.
My strong sympathies for her loved ones.
Greetings
Dag Holmgren
> 6 feb. 2018 kl. 07:18 skrev Eduardo A. Corte-Real <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Anna Calvera.
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