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Diletta Sereni directs l'Integrale, a magazine-book published by Iperborea that chronicles contemporaneity through food. She has written for Marie Claire, Vice, Corriere della Sera and other newspapers. She has a doctorate in visual semiotics and has taught semiotics at IED Milan.

Valentina Silvestrini (1982) is an architect and architectural editor with more of ten years’ experience on web and paper. She has been on the editorial staff of Artribune since 2012, and, since 2016, she is the coordinator of the Artribune architectural channel. For the same cultural platform, since 2024 she also cocurates the newsletter Render. She studied architecture at La Sapienza University of Rome, the city where she obtained professional qualification in architecture.

Writer, Literary Critic and Essayist
Walter Siti is one of Italy’s most distinguished writers and intellectuals. He edited the complete works of Pier Paolo Pasolini for Mondadori’s Meridiani series, and is the author of the podcast Perché Pasolini? He has written novels that have left their mark on more than one generation, including Paradise Overload (2006) and Il Contagio (2008). He won the Strega Prize in 2013 for Resistere Non Serve a Niente. His latest book is C’era Una Volta il Corpo, published by Feltrinelli.
 

Ph. Stefano Cianci

For more than 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. Snøhetta kick-started its career in 1989 with the competition-winning entry for the new library of Alexandria, Egypt. This was later followed by the commission for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others.

A humanities-based education followed by a degree in Foreign Literature and Languages – and then a specialisation in journalism (her thesis was on the journalistic narration of 40 years of apartheid in South Africa) and a Masters in Business Communication – enabled her to embark immediately on a career involving information, public relations and events organisation.

Valentina Sommariva lives and works in Milan, where she was born in 1986. As both a journalist and publicist, she specialises in interior design, travel and portrait photography. After graduating in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic she went on to study design in London, and earned a master's in contemporary photography and video art in Modena.

Valentina has put together campaigns and catalogues for leading design firms, and her work appears in prominent international magazines published in Italy, the UK, the United States and France.

The film director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970. His first feature film, One Man Up, was screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. He made The Consequences of Love in 2004, and The Family Friend in 2006, both of which competed at the Cannes Film Festival. He was back at Cannes in 2008 with Il Divo, which won the Prix du Jury. He again competed at Cannes in 2011 with This Must be the Place, followed two years later by The Great Beauty, which won him an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, a Bafta for Best Foreign Film and three EFAs.

Manuel Spitschan is the Rudolf Mössbauer Assistant Professor of Chronobiology & Health at Technical University of Munich and Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. After undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of St Andrews (2009-2012), he completed his PhD on melanopsin sensitivity in the human visual system at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2016).

Located on Viale Piave since 1986, Spotti Milano is synonymous with quality living. A trusted destination for design enthusiasts, it offers a unique selection of furniture and complements. For over thirty years, Claudio and Mauro Spotti have introduced the Milanese public to the most interesting new trends in Interior Design. Their store serves as a meeting point for the best Italian and international brands, some of which are represented exclusively.

Alessandro Squatrito is a multidisciplinary designer who lives in Milan and works on design between the physical and the digital contents. Interested in contemporary issues concerning technology and the social effects of design, he has collaborated with important international studios with projects ranging from product, installation and visual communication. He currently works as a freelancer and alongside his work as designer he also teaches. He has held courses and workshops at IED, Politecnico di Milano, Abadir, UniRSM and HfG Karlsruhe.

Andrea Staid is a professor of cultural and visual anthropology at Naba, of cultural anthropology at the University of Genoa, Phd at the Universidad de Granada. He directs the Library/Anthropology series for Meltemi. Among his latest publications:I dannati della metropoli (Milieu 2014), Contro la gerarchia e il dominio (Meltemi 2018), Disintegrati (Nottetempo 2020), La casa vivente (ADD 2021), Essere natura (UTET 2022).  I suoi libri sono tradotti in Grecia, Germania, Spagna, Cina, Portogallo, Cile. Collabora con diverse testate giornalistiche.

Originally from the UK, Ed Stocker is Monocle magazine’s Europe editor at large, based in Milan since 2020. Previously he was the publication’s Americas editor, covering the US and Latin America, based in New York. Before joining Monocle, he spent almost five years in Buenos Aires, covering the Southern Cone region for international newspapers, magazines and radio stations. In his capacity as Europe editor, Ed regularly travels around the continent, from Lithuania to Spain, where he covers diverse topics for the magazine and radio.

Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba founded Palomba Serafini Studio in 1994. 

The hallmark of the studio merges from the founders' ability to combine a contemporary vision of society and people's needs, with a broad knowledge of the historical and cultural roots of architecture and design, producing results that blend the past with the future.  

This unique and personal approach makes Palomba Serafini's reality particularly sensitive to questions related to the function and the need to create long-lasting products and architectures. 

Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002 and as director of the Design Museum in London between 2006 and 2020, he led the museum’s move from a dockland warehouse to its new home in Kensington.  
He was the founding editor of Blueprint Magazine, and director of the Glasgow City of Architecture and Design festival.