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(b. 1989, NY, NY). She grew up in and around photo studios and photography in New York and Italy, eventually moving to Milan at age 18 to be a photo assistant. After a few years of assisting, Adrianna started working on her own for magazines and brands in the fields of interiors, food, architecture, travel, art and fashion. After ten years of living in Europe, Adrianna returned to her hometown to live and work. 

(1990). Goren is an architect and interior designer, living and working in Milan Born in Ankara, she moved to Italy at the age of 22 following her passion for Italian culture, language and history Her studies have followed an interdisciplinary and international path, with years at METU in Ankara, the University of Bologna and, finally, Milan’s Polytechnic where she graduated with a thesis titled “Syntax Form in Architecture”.  

Adelina Greca has graduated from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has followed post-graduate studies in the Department of Urban Planning, the Urban Design Program at the same university. Adelina has an extensive experience in planning and public sector. She worked as an architect and urban planner at the Municipality of Tirana from 2003 until 2011. She has worked in a number of managing and executive positions during her tenure at the Municipality of Tirana.

Based in Milan, his creative experience started at age 13, studying 5 years in the artistic school of Busto Arsizio, where he was born in 1992. He decided to continue his studies by progressing to the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milano, studying product and interior design. 

Marva Griffin was born in Venezuela, and Milan became her city of adoption when, in the seventies, she started to work in the field of design and furnishing.

She began her career as PR communication at what was then the C&B Italia company (now B&B Italia), working with Piero Ambrogio Busnelli, owner and chairman of the company.

She became the correspondent/representative in Italy for a number of Conde Nast Publications: French Maison & Jardin, Vogue Decoration, American House & Garden and American Vogue. 

Born in Milan, he worked as an educator with minors in group homes and schools for over 10 years. He then attended the Mi-Master’s course in Editorial Illustration and decided to completely devote himself to illustration. He started working with the Purple Rain Illustrators agency, which found him his first jobs overseas. He soon received several commissions from the United States, including from Google, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Airbnb, Penguin, Bloomberg Businessweek, Scientific American, National Public Radio, Variety.

Designer and writer with a degree in Interior Design from Milan Polytechnic, she started her experience in the publishing world in 2011 as web editor of Domus magazine. After managing the contents of Domusweb from 2016 to 2021 and editing the Rassegna column of the magazine until 2024, since 2022 she has been a freelance author for the design and architecture magazines such as Salone.Milano, Domus and Koozarch. Co-founder of Ouvert magazine, since 2025 she is Practice and Materials Editor for the architecture magazine About: by Hearst Italia.

Cyrill Gutsch is an award-winning designer and brand/product developer.

In 1998 he created a method called Cross Intelligence, which brings a culture of collaboration to major organizations. In 2012 he decided to focus on a new client vital to us all: the oceans. He founded Parley for the Oceans as a collaboration network for creators, thinkers and leaders to raise awareness for the beauty and fragility of the oceans and to develop and implement strategies that can end their destruction.

Art historian, for several years Giulia Guzzini has concentrated her study interests on contemporary design. She grew up in Milan in the editorial office of the historic architecture magazine Domus, alongside the greatest international architects. She has been a lecturer in various institutions, including the Politecnico di Milano and Domus Academy. Today she deals with research and consultancy for various companies in the design world and works as a journalist for the magazines Marie Claire Maison, Elle Décor and Interni.

Sebastian Herkner (born 1981) studied Product Design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. During his studies he began to focus on designing objects and furniture, honing his keen sense for materials, colors and textures. For a short while he then worked for Stella McCartney in London.

Lilli Hollein is the newly appointed general director of the MAK-Museum of Applied Arts Vienna. She was until May 2021 director and one of three co-founders of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Austria's largest design festival. She completed her industrial design studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Carsten Höller applies his training as a scientist to his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships.

Architect, Founder Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke believes the architectural profession is best explained with the traditional Danish word for design: Formgivning. As the name suggests it literally means form giving. When you design something, you give form to that which has not yet been given form – you are shaping the future. When you design a space, a building or a city, you are giving form to the world you yourself would want to living in.

Timothy Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology, and social organization in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art, and architecture.