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Alessandro Petti awarded the Prince Pierre Foundation Prize

S.A.R. la Princesse de Hanovre et Mme Charlotte Casiraghi entourées des lauréats. ©Direction de la Communication / Stéphane Danna
S.A.R. la Princesse de Hanovre et Mme Charlotte Casiraghi entourées des lauréats. ©Direction de la Communication / Stéphane Danna

Alessandro Petti, Professor of Architecture and Social Justice at the Royal Institute of Art, has won a prize for his artistic research assigned by Prince Pierre Foundation.

The 2022 edition of the Prince Pierre Foundation Prizes winners were announced during a proclamation ceremony held at the Opéra Garnier in Monte-Carlo.

The award recognized Alessandro Petti’s collaborative practice DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art and Research) that over the last two decade developed a series of research based artistic interventions that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality.

Petti’s research practice is connected to his pedagogical approach at the Royal Institute of Art since 2017 by the establishment of DAAS (Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course), a series of postmaster courses, public seminars, field studies, publications, and discursive exhibitions.