Vince Arduaine Di Dato

Earthian. Constantly thirsty for knowledge and always trying to learn Compassion. Don't ask me from where I come. Ask me where I want to be and where I want to go. Share a bit of my way, if you like: traveling Life in good company is always more interesting. "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit."

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Strategy Designer, General Director of XERDAN Ltd. in Malta, and 1st Captain of the Italian Army Special Reserve. He begins his career as an Architect and Designer, mainly working on sustainability in industrial productions. He won the Compasso d'Oro in 1987, among many other prestigious recognitions and prizes. His projects have been published and presented internationally, even at XVII Triennale di Milano and at

Centre Pompidou in Paris. Later on, he re-oriented his activity towards systems analysis and their interconnections until the most recent

development of the X_Sphere© Design Multidimensional Matrix. Professor at IED - Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan from 2006 to 2010 and tutor for the Master's courses in sustainable design. Professor in a Master at Università Pontificia San Bonaventura in Roma, teaching Triple Bottom Line concepts applied to geopolitics and social conflicts, evolving then the Quadruple Bottom Line, adding "culture" to the three pillars (environment- economy-society). From 2010 to 2018, he teaches Civil-Military Synergies to the Italian Army Military Advisors for the Afghan National Army, at Centro Addestramento Alpino, in Aosta. He works on new paradigms about conflict evolution (in the broader sense) and the potential of non-lethal, non-violent activities to prevent and solve them. He held several lectures and seminars in Italian Universities. He also has a long experience in crisis areas in the Middle East, Central Asia, Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States regarding emergency management, reconstruction, energy, and essential services after wars and critical events. He attained specializations within Italian and European Civil Protection. In Iraq, he has also been Deputy for the Public Works of the Governor of the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) of Dhi Qar Province in 2004. He is a Veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, where he served several shifts between 2004 and 2013. Between 1995 and 2005, he worked as a top manager in Energy Service Companies (ESCos) and started three Energy Agencies inside EU network programs. Between 2014 and 2017, he is the advisor for the organization & resources for San Marino RTV, State Television of the Republic of San Marino. He also cooperates to an innovative project in Sardinia: the Earth Child House (www.earthchildhouse.org), a biosphere to guest severely ill children and their mothers-parents for short periods of serenity and beauty, in a natural and protected environment, developed together with the Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of Alghero – the University of Sassari and the Bioarchitecture Department of the Bovisa School of the Politecnico di Milano.

He writes and paints convinced that Art is fundamental for the human spirit understanding. Aesthetics open new paths to creativity and imagination and give new solutions to our societies' turbulences.
In June 2018, his Italian translation of Richard Buckminster Fuller's “Operating Manual of Spaceship Earth” has been published by Il Saggiatore. He is now working on a new version of Sun-Tzu: "Vital Strategies, The Competitive Methods in the Vision of Life" and collaborates with several magazines and media worldwide.

In February 2022 he published VITAL STRATEGIES - The Hidden Code of Sunzi, with Narrative Strategies Ink, Whashington DC.