Debora Picciarelli
Volunteer
Architect, Database Designer & Textile Artisan
Profile
Architect and textile artisan operating at the intersection of structured technical discipline and embodied artisanal practice. Her trajectory integrates two decades of analytical work in enterprise IT environments— relational database administration, AutoCAD/BIM design, and facility management systems — with a deliberate professional reorientation toward textile craft, garment construction, and tailoring.
This convergence of formal training and traditional textile transmission received within her family — then consolidated through certified professional training — informs her contribution to the Humanizer program as a domain of hands-on material competence, where structural thinking is translated into embodied craft.
Current Role
Instructor, Humanizer Program — Ordinative Sciences Foundation. Contributes to the structural human formation curriculum through the transmission of textile craft and tailoring as a domain of embodied technical practice. In parallel, founder and textile artisan of an independent tailoring workshop specialized in custom creations and bespoke tailoring, managing the full production cycle from fabric selection through pattern making, cutting, and final garment construction.
Core Expertise
• Textile craft and tailoring: garment construction, pattern making, textile technologies; custom creations and high-quality bespoke tailoring; quality control of seams and finishing
• Instructional design and delivery: structured transmission of textile and tailoring techniques within formative settings; prior teaching experience in software, payroll, and workplace health and safety
• Production management: in-line production workflow management, technical specification compliance, process optimization in autonomous workshop settings
• AutoCAD and BIM design: 2D and 3D drafting in AutoCAD and Revit; facility management integration (FactotuM software for volumetrics, plant systems, inventory, utilities, maintenance)
• Database administration: Oracle, PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, SQL, Access; data migration, technological upgrades, ITIL, testing, scheduling, service monitoring, information security, quality assurance
Professional Background
Founder and Textile Artisan (2026–present) of an independent tailoring workshop in Bellante. Textile Operator at Tescon (2025), executing specialized garment construction phases in industrial production.
Service Specialist at CSI Piemonte (2004–2023) in Turin: AutoCAD/BIM and Revit drafter within the Patrimony and Energy directorate (2020–2023), with final project on the FactotuM-BIM integration of the Piemonte Region Skyscraper in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino; manager of Technical Logistics, IT, and Safety Services at the Politecnico di Torino laboratories (2018–2020); Oracle database manager for the integrated Payroll-HR Service of Local Authorities and Healthcare in Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta (2004–2018). Analyst at Elsag Gest SpA, Milan (2001–2004), conducting requirements analysis for the Municipality of Genoa’s Personnel Services rollout.
Education and Training
Degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (2001). Professional Qualification as Seamstress and Textile Operator, Nami Accademia di Moda Italiana (2023–2024) — intensive 500-hour professional course in garment construction techniques, pattern making, and textile technologies.