My name is Danilo D'Angelo. I was born in Vigevano in 1960. I graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan with 100/100. I taught in various fields, such as "Theory and solfeggio" and classical guitar, in a music institute, and, for some years, I combined my professional activity with teaching in middle schools in the subject of "Technical Education." During the pandemic period, I taught “Art History” in a residential school. My passion for information and education is the natural consequence of coming from a family of teachers, principals, and journalists.

I have always been attracted to the world we live in, and, already at the age of fourteen, I took my first trip between France and Spain. Since then, I have not stopped finding in my wife an ideal travel and life companion.

In 1994, my wife and I, tired of feeling like “misfits” in this type of society, left our respective jobs and cities and created “our own society,” living in a forest, without television, growing crops, and heating ourselves with the wood we collected.

This detachment allowed us to see reality with different eyes, I would say more impartial, less involved. I realized that having saved ourselves from the delirium prevailing in the West did not allow me to live peacefully, but rather encouraged me to do something concrete for those who were still entangled in the web of having. At the same time, I was perfectly aware that a change in society would necessarily have to pass through school. I therefore founded the non-profit association "Progetto Utopia," which dealt with education, and I was part, for about ten years, of the Board of Directors of the German NGO "Wider Vision Foundation," which manages the Naveen Nursery and Primary School in Varanasi (India), a kindergarten and elementary school attended by children from very disadvantaged families. I also collaborated with the Indian NGO “Kautilya Society,” with which I participated in the making of the documentary “UN Millennium Development Goals,” filmed all over the world, a project of the European Community that took stock of the state of aid that the United Nations had distributed throughout the world with the aim of achieving the objectives of:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger in the world.

• Make primary education universal.

• Promote gender equality and women's empowerment.

• Reduce infant mortality.

• Improve maternal health.

• Fight HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.

• To ensure environmental sustainability.

• Develop a partnership world for development.

I have conducted several interviews in the school environment for “Byoblu Television,” including Professor Benedetto Vertecchi, Professor Umberto Galimberti, and many others. For “Davvero TV,” I also conceived and hosted a series of programs, broadcast in November and December 2020, both on Byoblu and on Davvero TV, entitled “Fatti non foste…” with the theme of the situation in which the Italian school finds itself, with the collaboration of Enzo Pennetta and Elisabetta Frezza.

I write articles for the online magazine “Meer” and for the blogs “Libero pensare” and “Sovranità popolare.” The latter also prints a paper periodical that can be received by subscription. In 2019, I published the essay “Un libro di scuola” for Bibliotheka Edizioni, and in 2023, “Scuola nuova vita nuova” was published by Casa Editrice Dissensi, in which I describe different teaching methods that are applied in various parts of the world. I am currently part of the study group Centro di Gravità, founded by Giulietto Chiesa, in which I hold the role of coordinator of the Gruppo Scuola-Antropologia. I was a shareholder of the Cooperativa Generazioni Future (formerly Comitato Rodotà) and a founding member of the Fondazione Barterfly.

I am currently involved in a project that aims to gather in a network both teachers who want to broaden their field of knowledge in the didactic field and existing educational entities that present themselves as an alternative to the Italian public school. The aim is to connect all those entities already present in the territory by uniting them under an administrative and didactic "consulting umbrella," training teachers in an ongoing path, thus giving Italian families the possibility of being able to freely choose the type of education they want to give their children.