Mr Fabio D'Agnano

Qualifications:

2022 Smart Manufacturing : Moving From Static to Dynamic Manufacturing Operations - MIT Professional Education 2016 Master Trainer in Mobile Educational Computing. MIT, Boston 2004 MA (hons) Architecture – Iuav Architecture University, Venice

Position:

Associate Professor

Department:

Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)

Telephone:

+441173281172

Email:

Fabio.DAgnano@uwe.ac.uk

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About me

Fabio D’Agnano is an architect and Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. He specialises in 3D design and digital manufacturing, with research focusing on 3D modelling, interactivity, real‑time rendering, artificial intelligence and robotics for art, digital and smart manufacturing, augmented 3D‑printed tactile surfaces for inclusion. He has worked at CFPR since 2019 and, after a period as Visiting Associate Professor in Interactive Media Design at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2025–2026, where he taught Creative Robotics and Interactive Devices, he returned to his role at CFPR in 2026.
Fabio’s recent work includes his role as Co‑Investigator in “The Bridge”, an AHRC‑funded multidisciplinary physical‑meta production lab that supports practice‑based, design‑led research into physical‑meta production and the adoption of emerging technologies in robotics, smart manufacturing, immersive and interactive media. He has also collaborated with artist Do Ho Suh on “Inverted Monument” (2023), a large‑scale sculpture in extruded filament developed within a robotics research project at CFPR and exhibited at Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York.
He taught at the Iuav University of Venice from 2009 to 2021, focusing on 3D modelling, 3D printing and electronic prototyping, and in 2011 he founded the postgraduate Master’s course in Digital Architecture. He has also taught in other postgraduate programmes in Venice in the areas of digital architecture, interactive arts and digital exhibits. Before joining UWE, he combined his academic work with professional practice as partner and manager of the architectural office Glass Architettura Urbanistica Engineering, where teams of up to ten people carried out large‑scale projects and won international competitions.
Alongside this, Fabio founded Tooteko, a university spin‑off that combines 3D printing and electronic sensors to make works of art accessible to blind and visually impaired people, receiving the Seal of Excellence and several grants from the European Community and contributing to projects such as UNESCO4ALL TOUR. He is the author of the handbook “3d Max per l’Architettura” (Apogeo Editore, Milano, 2006), which has sold more than 10,000 copies. He has experience in electronic prototyping, 3D printing, coding and digital craftsmanship and has served as a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Education in the field of digital manufacturing in higher education, using the Design Thinking method.
In his personal work, Fabio is also a musician and has taken part in film‑scoring competitions and audio‑visual projects. His short video “OCNO” has been selected for the Bucaramanga Sanfici festival, reflecting his ongoing interest in the relationship between sound, image and interactive media.

Area of expertise

3D design,  coding, digital craftsmanship, digital manufacturing within the fields of visual art, design, craft and architecture, accessibility for the visually impaired, creative robots.

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