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First name(s) / Jesse Burgess Marsh
Surname(s)
Address(es) Via Giuseppe La Farina 9, 90141 Palermo, Italy
Telephone(s) +39 091 6256226 Mobile: +39 333 4075748
E-mail jesse@atelier.it
Gender Male
Work experience
Dates Since 1995
Occupation or position held Lead Partner and Legal Representative
Dates 1992-95
Occupation or position held Partner then President
Main activities and Management and consulting in cooperative R&D projects funded by the
responsibilities European Union’s Framework Program, involving several organizations
from different member states. Specific topics included: cultural
adaptation of multimedia learning material, teleworking among design
professionals, distributed multimedia training in the banking sector,
evaluation of innovative pilot projects in distance learning, and market
analyses and strategies for learning technologies.
Name and address of OpenStudio, Viale Romagna 56, 20100 Milano, Italy
employer
Type of business or sector Consulting partnership then Limited Company in ICT-related research
Dates 1988-91
Occupation or position held Consultant
Dates 1980-92
Occupation or position held Owner
Main activities and Industrial design in a wide range of materials and technologies,
responsibilities processes and product sectors, from chairs to artificial lungs. In
partnership with Trabucco and Vecchi, clients included Vortice, Elam, and
Kartell. As a free-lance designer, main clients included: Sorin Biomedica
(Fiat Group), Arflex, Elam, De Rosso, SFA (Societé Française
d’Assainissement).
From 1988-90, an experimental design project with Sorin Biomedica
addressed the logical flow, information design, and screen graphics of the
programmer for pacemakers PMP 1000.
Name and address of Jesse Marsh Design, Viale Romagna 56, 20100 Milano, Italy
employer
Type of business or sector Free-lance industrial design
Dates 1976-82
Occupation or position held Entered as apprentice, left as Chief Industrial Designer
Main activities and Industrial design in a wide range of areas in the offices of one of the
responsibilities fathers of the “Milanese School” of Industrial Design. Main clients:
Brionvega, Louis Vuitton, B&B, Fontana Arte, Fusital, SIO, Poltrona Frau,
Lavazza, Vortice, SFA, Sorin Biomedica.
Name and address of Studio Associato Zanuso e Crescini, Milano, Italy
employer
Type of business or sector Architectural and Industrial Design Office
Education and
training
Dates 1971-75
Title of qualification Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Art, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
awarded
Principal Major in Studio Art. Liberal Arts curriculum included studies in
subjects/occupational skills Architecture, Art, History of Art, English, Economics, Mathematics, Music,
covered Theology, Chemistry, Philosophy, Psychology, History, Anthropology and
Sociology
Name and type of Williams College, Williamstown MA, USA: Liberal Arts College
organisation
Dates 1962-71
Title of qualification High School Diploma
awarded
Principal USA Accredited Primary, Middle and Secondary School Curriculum
subjects/occupational skills
covered
Social skills and Network and partnership relations with hundreds of organizations of vary-
competences ing nature in all Member States of the European union, with experience in
travelling, working, and participation in local initiatives.
Specific ability in the coordination and management of inter-cultural and
inter-disciplinary workgroups.
Public speaking, including “keynote” roles, animation of workshops and
brainstorming sessions, etc.
Organisational skills and Development and coordination of networks of people and organizations.
competences Design and coordination of complex work programs including different
inter-dependent activities, technical assistance, budgeting and reporting
in projects of several million Euros.
Technical skills and Deep knowledge of the main processes and materials of industrial
competences manufacture .
Computer skills and Ex-Amiga, ex-Mac, Windows: Office, CAD, 3D modeling, etc.
competences Groupware system administration and management (FirstClass)
Web design and basic programming (FrontPage, Dreamweaver)
Concept design of web services.
Annexes EU Projects
Consultancies
Other Activities
Awards and Prizes
Publications
Other Activities • Constitution and co-ordination of the “TLL Sicily” regional partnership,
including the Regional Planning Department, CRES and a range of local
development actors, for building a “Territorial Living Lab” within the
ENoLL European Network of Living Labs (2007- ).
• Inscribed in the Long List of “Experts in management of Community
programs and Territorial Cooperation projects” of the Special Office for
Decentralized Co-operation for Development and International Solidar-
ity of the Sicilian Region (2007- ).
• Member of the International Program Committee of the “e-Challenges”
conference 2008-Stockholm, 2007-the Hague, 2006–Barcellona, 2005-
Ljubljana, 2004-Vienna and 2003-Bologna.
• With the DEMOsfera group, organization of “Consultative propositions
of citizen interest” in conjunction with Primary elections of the Unione
for the Candidate for Mayor of Palermo, 2007.
• Member of the Export Working Group of the UE’s EUReGOV project
(RAND Europe e UNU Merit, 2006-) to evaluate e-government
strategies for 2010 and beyond.
• Management of the “comitatixrita” website and design and imple-
mentation of an innovative system for managing polling station repres-
entatives for the 2006 Regional elections (Sicilian Region).
• For the e-Challenges 2004 conference in Vienna, organization and
chairing of a two-session workshop on “eDemocracy and eCitizenship”.
• Constitution and co-ordination of the DEMOsfera (2003-) initiative for
the experimentation of new tools and methods of citizen participation
in eDemocracy, with the DEMOnews (February 2004-) and DEMOdai
(feasibility study) initiatives.
• Constitution and co-ordination of the Palermo Group of the Club of
Rome, for the development of mid-term visions and scenarios for the
Euro-Mediterranean area (2003-04).
• For the e-Challenges 2003 conference in Bologna, organization of a
two-session workshop on “eDemocracy and Participation”.
• Development and experimentation of a web service for “democracy
points” and a telematics voting system for Primary Elections for the
candidate to President of the Province of Palermo (2002-2003).
• Management of a free-access, open electronic conferencing system as
the basis for participation networks (VOX, Virtual OrganiXation) and a
tool for distance group work in local and European initiatives (1995-
2006).
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Awards and Prizes • 2002: 2° prize ex equo for Best Paper at the UE’s “e-Business and e-
Work” conference, Prague
• 1988: 2 Honorable Mentions, Compasso d’Oro design prize, Milano
• 1984: Selection, Bio 10, Ljubljana
• 1984: Honorable Mention, IF Prize “Die gute Industrieform”
• 1975: Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship, Williams College
• 1971: Semi-finalist as National Merit Scholar
• Design works published in various reviews and in international
exhibitions in Milan, Paris, Barcellona, Frankfurt, Lubijana, New York
and Tokyo.
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Seminars and Speaker in International seminars and conferences – the Hague, Alcamo,