Doris Maninger

is the DSAF Senior Technical Consultant, she trained as a painter and restaurateur at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, she has moved at young age to Italy to complete her studies in various fields of arts and crafts.

Her work is constantly shifting between diverse fields such as painting, sculpture, textile design and jewellery, combining traditional techniques with new formal approaches and theoretical research.

In 1998, she moved to Florence and has founded the contemporary jewellery school Alchimia together with Lucia Massei.

She has worked as artist and educator internationally for more than 20 years and is an expert in educational pathways and creative pedagogy.