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Maria Cristina Didero is an independent design curator, consultant and author, who has collaborated with different magazines and contributed to many publications; she is currently covering the role of Milan editor for Wallpper magazine. Didero has consulted for companies such as Vitra, Fritz Hansen, Lexus, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Valextra among others.  

She studied History of Art at the Complutense University of Madrid and Decorative Arts of the 19th and 20th Century at Sotheby’s Art Institute in London. Since 1989 she has worked as a freelance journalist, writer and curator specializing in Design.

Spatial designer, she writes about design and architecture. After educational experiences in New York, London and Weimar, she now splits her life and work between the very north east of Italy and Milan, where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Interior and Spatial Design at the Milan's Polytechnic, specialising in temporary installations, interior architecture and exhibition design. She teaches at the IED in Turin and has contributed to Zero, Elle Decor, Living, Domusweb, Exibart, Icon Design, Pizza, Sali e Tabacchi, Sapiens and Carnale.

Luca Umberto Dondoni is a journalist, writer, radio and television host and speaker. He has worked with a number of radio stations since 1976, both as a creator and host of programmes and as a correspondent for leading music events  both in Italy and abroad. Over the course of his career, he has interviewed the leading global protagonists on the international music scene. Luca Umberto Dondoni has also collaborated with a number of Italian and foreign music and lifestyle publications, and with the newspaper La Stampa.

As the Chief Commercial Officer of the Starhotels Group, I oversee a multifaceted portfolio encompassing Sales, Marketing, Revenue, and Distribution for the Group's 30 prestigious properties.  

With a dedicated team of 85 professionals under my guidance, I am committed to driving growth and excellence across our hospitality ventures. 

Anthony is a University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and Co-Director of the Designed Realities Studio at Parsons/The New School in New York. 

Fabio Ermetto graduated in naval engineering in the Netherlands. He is a widely recognised and esteemed professional in international boating. He held important positions both in Italy – as CCO at Benetti, where he worked for 10 years, also as the Chairperson of Fraser Yachts – and abroad, where, for 7 years, he was Heesen’s Sales & Marketing Director. In 2017 he became Camper&Nicholsons’ CCO. 

Cas Esbach is a project leader and architect located in MVRDV’s Rotterdam Office. With a rich professional background that includes positions at Derksen|Windt in Delft, Civic Projects in Chicago, and BIG in New York, Cas has been an integral part of the MVRDV team in Rotterdam for over five years. He has significantly contributed to and led numerous impactful projects during his tenure. His notable achievements include successful projects such as the Shenzhen Terraces, Tripolis Park in Amsterdam, and Valley in Amsterdam.

A suitcase always at the ready – with parents from Naples, a twin sister, brothers and nieces and nephews scattered around Italy, two important relationships in Rome – she lives in Milan where she writes about design, architecture and lifestyle practices, collaborating with different magazines like Living, Interni, Icon Design, Domus, Klat Magazine. 

Born in Milan in 1996, Fabrizio Fasanella is a journalist who mainly writes about environment, climate change, cities, urban mobility and lifestyle. His goal is to show, through journalistic analysis, the pervasiveness of topics related to sustainability, because when we talk about “green” we talk about everything: from rights to labor, from economy to energy, from politics to culture. He currently works in Linkiesta’s newsroom as coordinator of Greenkiesta and editor of Linkiesta Etc, the newspaper’s sections dealing with the environment and lifestyle, respectively.

Architect and researcher, she also writes for Domus, Artribune, Elle Decor Italia and AD Italia. Born in Bologna, she now lives in Milan. She took her degree in Architecture and Urban design from Milan Polytechnic University, with a thesis on architectural history focusing on the intersection between architectural and artistic thinking between 1965 and 1976, in connection with the critic Germano Celant’s articles in the magazine  Casabella.

Claudio Feltrin is President of Arper, a leading Italian company that creates chairs, tables, and furnishings for community, work and home.

Arper was founded in 1989 as an evolution of a leather artisan enterprise launched by the Feltrin family in the 1980s. The company, created by the father Luigi (President of Honour until his passing in 2020), together with his sons Mauro and Claudio, distinguished itself right from the start for its innovative products and state of the art processes, as well as for its international approach.

Alecio Ferrari is an Italian photographer and visual researcher who lives and works between Rotterdam and Milan.

His portfolio is a mixture of fervent aesthetics and narrative, developed from a wide experience in visual arts. Alecio Ferrari’s art practice focuses on still life, documentary, and portraits and the intersection between these disciplines; he’s constantly working on developing new concept based personal projects, with an accurate eye for composition and lighting. 

Claudia Ferri was born in Pescara in 1980. After living for many years in Rome, she moved to Milan, where she currently lives, working as a freelancer in various areas of photography. Her work varies between portraiture – investigating the physiognomic change from puberty to adolescence – and contextual photography, analyzing the circumstances that change environments depending upon the people who live in them. She has shot for Off White, Gucci, Missoni, Fondazione Prada, Nike, X Factor, Mutina, Pretziada, and Triennale di Milano.

Finessi has earned a PhD and is an a rchitect, teacher (associate professor at the Design School of Milan’s Polytechnic, where he teaches Design and the arts), critic (he was editor of Abitare magazine under Italo Lupi) and researcher (he has curated exhibitions and publications dedicated to masters such as Bruno Munari Achille Castiglioni, Corrado Levi, Vico Magistretti Angelo Mangiarotti Pio Manzù and Alessandro Mendini). In 2010 he founded and was editor in chief of Inventario an editorial project that won him the Compasso d’Oro.