Aldo Cibic was born in Schio (VI) Italy in 1955 and quickly developed a self-directed interest in design world. In 1981, as a partner in Sottsass Associati, he was a founding member of Memphis, an artists’ collective that was to mark an epoch-making transition in the universe of design and architecture. In the late 1980s launched “Standard” (1991), his first self-produced collection. At the same time he became a teacher at the Domus Academy and set up research activities with various schools, while developing his ideas around the "design of services". His projects, such as "The Solid Side" (1995) and "New Stories New Design" (2002), fostered a dynamic relationship between people and space, offering a new mode of designing places based on social interactions. He continued in this vein with "Microrealities" (2004) and "Rethinking Happiness" (2010). Both were presented at Venice Architecture Biennale and invent contemporary narratives aimed at multiplying opportunities for meetings, exchanges and sharing in community life. In 2015 he curated Venice Architecture Biennale of the Arts & Craft exhibition at Venice pavilion. In 1989 he founded the Cibic Workshop, not only a design studio but also a multidisciplinary research centre. Cibic Workshop focuses heavily on alternative sustainable projects aimed at enhancing whole local areas and defining new cultural, emotional and environmental awareness of public space. In 2020 Cibic Workshop opened a new office in Shanghai, with a focus on creating meaningful and culturally relevant objects, spaces and communities, both public and private, through addressing the issues we see as most important to society today.Aldo Cibic is Honorary Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai.In 2021 he has been appointed Honorary Professor of Urban Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.His design pieces and drawings are exhibited in the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Groninger Museum, the CCA (Canadian Center for Architecture) in Montreal, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Triennale Museum of Italian Design in Milan and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Aldo Cibic has been included by architecture magazine Domus in the guide to the world's best architects “100+ best architecture firms 2019”.In 2023 he was awarded the honor of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and, in the same year, the "Magnolia Silver Award", awarded by the municipality of Shanghai in recognition of his contributions to the city's development and international exchanges.