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Beatriz Colomina is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University and the Founding Director of the Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University. She writes and curates on questions of design, art, sexuality and media.

Giovanni Comoglio is an architect trained in Turin and Paris. Currently a research fellow at Politecnico di Torino, lecturer and teaching assistant in Politecnico di Milano, he also writes for various periodicals including Architect's Newspaper, Ark, Il Giornale dell'Architettura, Il Manifesto and Domus, of which he curates the Archive web section.

Riccardo Conti (Como, 1979) 

Over the past twenty years Riccardo Conti, art critic and academic, has worked with the leading art and fashion magazines. His primary interests include contemporary art and its relationship with the language of fashion and audiovisual communication. More recently he has explored the relationship between artists and brands in the design of fashion retail spaces, and his research will soon be published. He is a huge fan of Shiro Kuramata and everything Japanese. 

He has been on the editorial staff of Rivista Studio since its founding, and, since 2014, on the editorial staff of Rivista Undici - of the same publishing group - too. He is editor-in-chief and brand manager. He writes about culture and lifestyles for GQ and Cartography. He has taught the Communication Design course at NABA in Milan. In 2020 he co-founded Palinurobar, a wine bar in Milan where he is creative director.

Pietro Corraini is an Italian designer who lives and works in Milan. His work involves deconstructing and reconstructing visual communication and design projects. He holds workshops and seminars at bookstores, festivals, and museum spaces. He is the art director of Corraini Edizioni and the director of the magazine “Un Sedicesimo.” He uses graphics, design, art, and everything around him to humorously explore definitions and boundaries. He has designed agendas that shoot, tanks that blow bubbles, colorful stars, and has used tubes, posters, books, confetti, and imagination.

Mario Cucinella is the founder and creative Director of MC A - Mario Cucinella Architects, an international design studio, based in Bologna and Milan, specializing in research-based architectural design linked to sustainability issues according to a holistic approach.

The impact and importance of his work, both from an environmental and social point of view, as an architect and educator has been recognized with the Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects (2017) and with the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2016).

Alexandra Cunningham Cameron is a writer, curator and critical thinker on contemporary design. She currently sits as curator of contemporary design and Hintz Secretarial Scholar at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 

(1966) Curzi was born in Pavia and studied architecture at Milan’s Polytechnic under Michael Alder and Maurizio Vogliazzo becoming the latter’s assistant in 1993 In 1994 he opened his own professional studio in Pavia In 1995 he met A G Fronzoni and became his student, collaborator, assistant and friend.

Artur de Andrade is a Brazilian journalist, PR, content creator and communication consultant with 25 years of experience. He began his professional journey in the now extinct Jornal da Tarde, a newspaper of O Estado de S.

After graduating in architecture (at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, with studies at the Oslo School of Architecture, Norway), Massimo moved to London in 2000 to join the team of Claudio Silvestrin Architects. Since 2012 he has founded the Massimo De Conti Architect studio. Sensitivity, mental clarity and inventiveness are reflected in its architecture: elegant but not ostentatious, with less is more in mind. For years he has alternated design with journalism.

After studying in France and USA, Adrien de Lassence graduated from ENSA-Clermont-Ferrand, Architecture University in 2009. He worked in Vancouver, Canada, and set up in Paris in 2011. Having registered with the French Board of Architects, in 2018 he joined Sou Fujimoto Architects in Paris to help the newly established office in France. De Lassence’s first project at Sou Fujimoto Architects was “Milles Arbres - A Thousand Trees”, on the west side of Paris beyond the ring boulevard, which won the 1st prize among the 23 sites included in the French competition Réinventer.Paris.

Architect. Michele De Lucchi was a prominent figure in movements like Alchimia and Memphis.

Stefano is Ferretti Group’s Chief Commercial Officer andWally’s(a brand of Ferretti Group) Managing Director. After graduating in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at the University College London (voted University of the year in 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024) he gained an MBA from the University of Sciences and Technology in Hong Kong in Business Administration – Strategy & Entrepreneurship career track. 

A journalist for the Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper, a degree in philosophy from Bologna University, she has worked for the magazine IL since its launch in 2008, before moving to the digital newsroom of the daily newspaper in 2019. She has written about the economy, current affairs and design, rooting around to get behind the scenes of the stories. Over the years, she has worked on a myriad of forms of journalism, from reportages to columns, from longform writing to podcasts to social networks, all with a single aim: that of telling an interesting story.

Alessia Delisi is a freelance journalist specialized in design, architecture, art and visual culture in general. Born in Palermo and Milan-based, she graduated in Aesthetic Philosophy at the State University of Milan with top marks and a thesis on Julio Cortázar's Rayuela. She immediately began writing, about art above all, but soon also about design and trends.

In 1993, Hervé Descottes founded the lighting design and consulting firm L’Observatoire International in New York, after eight years of design practice in Paris, France. He personally creates the lighting concepts for all projects designed by L’Observatoire International, and oversees project development through project completion. Descottes has been recognized numerous times by the lighting design and architectural community.