— 02 · Senior designer
Luigi Padovano
Structure, method, concreteness. He turns direction into a path, without losing precision.
Studio of ideas · Albinea (RE)
where mind e materia
meet.
A studio of ideas. A precision workshop. One roof.
Explore UNDESWe create solutions through making and thinking.
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making
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ingenuity
— Site map
The sections
at a glance.
Each panel leads to a dedicated page: studio, method, solutions, roots, contact and vocabulary.
Where mind and matter meet.
Who we are, how we work and the people who hold the UNDES identity together.
Ideas · Ingenuity · Form
01
First we understand. Then we propose.
A method made of listening, drawing, testing and transforming matter.
Listen · Draw · Build
02
Projects, prototypes and made-to-measure products.
A space to develop dedicated ideas, case studies and realized objects.
Design · Produce · Solve
03
A manufacturing story evolving.
The territory, the workshop and an industrial vision born in the heart of Emilia.
Emilia · Workshop · Future
04
Every project begins with a conversation.
The access point for ideas, collaborations, requests and new directions.
Contact · Brief · Direction
05
The language that remains.
The Reggiano vocabulary as searchable, concrete and living memory.
Memory · Words · Territory
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— 01 · Manifesto
Everything begins with an idea.
A form seen in a dream. A conversation at the end of the day. A shared doubt. From there comes the drawing. Then the model. Then matter.
UNDES is a studio of ideas. We develop intuitions across every space and field, without starting from a predefined category.
The workshop is not the identity: it is a possibility. The place where ingenuity, when needed, meets matter and forces it to become form.
— 02 · The studio
A band that
becomes a harmony.
UNDES does not work like a department. It works like a band: different people, different instruments, different timings, one direction.
Every idea enters the studio and passes through different sensibilities: vision, design, technique, narrative. The final form never belongs to one person alone: it is the result of an agreement.
Different instrumentsVision, design, matter, communication. Every role has its own tone.
One unified resultWhen the idea holds, the parts stop feeling separate and become one single gesture.
Three instruments.
One harmony.
— 03 · Project designer
Enzo Pellacani
Drawing and form. The point where creativity and technique meet and become an object.
— 04 · Identity, strategy & communication
Giada Fantuzzi
Voice, identity, strategy and perception. She translates method and vision into communication, positioning and narrative.
— Manifesto, in one line
Ideas without technique remain illustrations. Technique without ideas remains production. We are the point in-between.
— 02 · Process
02
How ideas are born.
We do not start from a machine. We do not start from a material. We start from a question: what could exist, if we took it seriously?
— Method
The idea first.
Everything else after.
The UNDES process is a transformation: an intuition enters the studio, is discussed, drawn, questioned, until it finds a possible form.
It is not a technical sequence to execute. It is a way of giving body to ingenuity. The workshop comes later: not to command the idea, but to verify it, correct it and give it form.
This is the point: we develop ideas across every space and field. The final form can change. The principle remains the same.
— 01 · A question
Every project begins with a question.
Not “what can we produce?”, but “which idea deserves to take form?”. This is where ingenuity begins: a tension, a desire, a problem still without shape.
listen · intuit · choose
— 02 · A drawing
The idea becomes a trace.
Sketches, proportions, tests, notes. Drawing is not there to decorate the idea: it is there to understand it. To remove what does not hold. To leave only what can become real.
draw · reduce · refine
— 03 · Matter
Matter arrives when the idea is ready.
The workshop enters later, as a natural consequence. It is not the starting point: it is the place where an intuition is verified, corrected, made concrete.
test · work · finish
— 04 · A signature
In the end, a mark remains.
When the idea finds balance, it is recognized. Not as a simple production result, but as the outcome of a path: ingenuity that has passed through making.
recognize · number · deliver
— The workshop as a tool
The hands arrive after thought.
We have a workshop because some ideas are not enough on paper. They must be built, measured, corrected. Working with matter allows us not to leave the idea in the field of imagination.
But the identity of UNDES is not the machine. It is the passage: from intuition to form, from thought to body, from ingenuity to presence.
An idea is not produced.
It is listened to, drawn and tested.
— 04 · Roots
04
An idea is born from a place.
Albinea, Reggio Emilia, Emilia. Not as geographical decoration, but as a way of thinking: concrete, lateral, allergic to noise.
Albinea.
Reggio Emilia.
Emilia.
— Method note
Roots are not nostalgia. They are the point from which we observe things. UNDES was born in a territory where ingenuity has always been practical: it is not declared, it is put to work.
Here, an idea must pass through hands, relationships and measure. This is why our way of developing ideas remains tied to a precise place, even when the idea can go anywhere.
— Story
We write the story
without inventing it.
UNDES was born from the evolution of a manufacturing company founded in the early 1980s in the heart of Emilia.
For over forty years, that experience lived through the daily work of the workshop: precision, sacrifice, manual skill and technical knowledge passed on over time. A family company built around mechanical production, with a craft-based and deeply human approach.
From that story came a realization: in an increasingly competitive and standardized market, dominated by price pressure and replicability, remaining only a turning workshop was no longer enough.
The turning point came during the pandemic period, when the need to redefine the company’s future became clear. Not merely to save a production structure, but to transform it into something new.
UNDES takes shape in this way: not as an erasure of the past, but as its natural evolution. Production stops being the center of the project and becomes a tool serving a broader idea: design.
Today, UNDES is a hybrid space between creative studio and industrial laboratory, where engineering, prototyping, design and matter meet to transform concepts into concrete solutions.
— CEO / Company history
Domenico Ferrari.
The company story also passes through here: through the experience of someone who crossed the workshop every day, turning work, precision and responsibility into a concrete base for the future of UNDES.
— Origin
A manufacturing story.
UNDES was born in the heart of Emilia, a territory where mechanics is culture, language and productive identity.
— Workshop
Forty years of making.
Precision, manual skill and technical knowledge build a real foundation: not theory, but daily work.
— Break
Producing was no longer enough.
Price pressure and standardization make one choice clear: rethinking value before the product.
— Evolution
Production becomes a tool.
Technique remains essential, but changes direction: it serves the idea, design and research.
— Unique Design
Creativity, technique, experimentation.
UNDES builds a contemporary industrial model: human and not replicable elsewhere.
— Future
An evolving vision.
UNDES continues to grow through people, collaborations and research: because innovation is vision before technology.
— Where we are
Albinea,
Reggio Emilia.
The place is not decoration: it is the point from which method, measure and a way of thinking begin.
We start from here.
Not to stand still, but to give direction to ideas.
— 06 · Dialect
06
The language that remains.
Dialect is not folklore. It is a form of precision: few words, many nuances. Here, the Reggiano vocabulary becomes searchable: a small cultural infrastructure inside UNDES.
— Reggiano vocabulary
A memory made searchable.
We integrated the original vocabulary into a light, immediate search: type a word in Reggiano or Italian and the site returns the most relevant pages.
The dictionary keeps its nature as a historical source: we do not rewrite it, force-normalize it or invent translations. We make it reachable, readable, alive.
For UNDES, dialect is a grammar of making: measure, concreteness, irony, rootedness.
— Search the vocabulary
Archive934 pages
SourceReggiano-Italian vocabulary
FunctionSearch Reggiano · Italian · English
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Type a word to search the full vocabulary. You can search Reggiano terms, Italian words and some common English words: the site connects them to the corresponding Italian entries.
The dictionary is here.
The search works on the original page text. Results show faithful excerpts with page references, so memory remains precise and verifiable.
Try concrete words: casa, acqua, camp, sbarer, pagn, magnèr. In English you can try house, water, field, bread, game.
SBARÈR
To bar / to fire artillery
— source example · search “sbarer”
SBATTER
To beat, to knock down, to shade
— source example · search “sbatter”
PAGN
Cloths
— source example · search “pagn”
CAMP
Field
— source example · search “camp”
Dialect keeps close what polished language tends to lose: measure, irony, concreteness.
— 03 · Solutions
03
Solutions take shape
in projects.
We turn ideas, problems and technical needs into designed solutions: prototypes, products, components and verifiable systems.
— Featured projects
Three cases, one shared
direction.
Projects are the point where the UNDES method becomes readable: listening, engineering, prototyping, production and design vision.
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— Project 01
CRYON
Smart AODD Pump
Complete project: from the idea to the development of an intelligent solution for industrial pumping.
concept · development · prototyping
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— Project 02
MO-TEC
Battery-powered telescopic lift
Technical solution for repair workshops, designed for autonomy, mobility and operational precision.
mechanics · workshop · autonomy
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— Project 03
ELIVENT
Stainless steel propeller covers and hubs
Prototyping of technical components for a new stainless steel propeller, between formal, functional and production verification.
prototype · stainless steel · components
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— Solution method
From problem
to form.
We do not start from a catalogue. We start from a possibility: a product, a component, a system or a technical object to make concrete.
— 01 · Listening
A question.
Every solution begins from a real request, even when it is still raw or difficult to name.
— 02 · Drawing
A direction.
We translate intuition into geometries, constraints, proportions, materials and tests.
— 03 · Prototype
A verification.
The form is tested, corrected and made readable before final development.
— 04 · Result
A solution.
The project becomes an object, a system or a component able to function and communicate.
A tailor-made project is not a variation.
It is an idea that finds its exact space.
Do you have an idea to develop?
Let’s talk →— 05 · Let’s talk
05
Every project begins with a conversation.
If you have an idea, a direction, a doubt or a possibility still without form, the first step is simple: write to us.
— Direct contact
A perfect brief is not needed.
What matters is starting.
Write to us with what you have: an intuition, a need, an image, a phrase. No form: just a direct conversation. We will organize the rest together, with measure and ingenuity.
UNDES works on developing ideas across every space and field. Some arrive already clear. Others are only a hint. In both cases, conversation is where ingenuity begins to take form.
— Email
info@undes.it
— What to write
Tell us the idea even if it is raw: what you imagine, what you would like to achieve, what you absolutely do not want to do.
— What is not needed
You do not need to already have a solution. That is the part we can develop together, with method and ingenuity.
— Confidentiality
If the project is sensitive or not yet public, just say it. Some ideas must be protected before being shown.
A conversation is not a form.
It is the first place where an idea takes body.