Salone del Mobile.Milano Annual Report 2024

Christian Rocca is Editorial Director of Linkiesta. He has edited the magazine IL, has been a special correspondent and columnist for Il Sole 24 ORE, a columnist for La Stampa and correspondent in the United States for Il Foglio. He has written eight essays on the themes of geopolitics and contemporary society. His latest book is “L’Ucraina siamo noi” (2024).

Charles Landry works with cities to help them make the most of their potential. Acclaimed as a speaker, author and innovator he facilitates complex urban change projects. An authority on using imagination in self-sustaining urban change he has worked and given talks in over 60 countries and helped shift how we harness possibilities in reinventing our cities. Charles has written over a dozen books, most recently: The Creative Bureaucracy and The Civic City in a Nomadic World. His best-known works are The Creative City: A toolkit for Urban Innovators and The Art of City Making.

Maria Porro, born in Como in 1983, has been President of Assarredo since being unanimously elected in September 2020, and is the first woman to take on this role.  

Francesco Zurlo, Full Professor of Industrial Design, is Dean of the School of Design at the Politecnico di Milano. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Observatory on Design Thinking for Business at the Politecnico and ADI lndex. He is scientific director of the Executive Master in Design Strategy and System innovation and co-director of the Master in Design Strategies and the Master in Furniture Design of POLI.design, a consortium of the Politecnico di Milano.

Architect with a PhD in Design, Stefano Maffei is Full Professor at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches Advanced Product–Service System and Service Design. Rector's Delegate for Social Innovation. He is the Director of Polifactory, the Fab Lab/Maker Space of the Politecnico di Milano. He also directs the Masters in Specialization in Service Design and Design For Food, POLI.design, Politecnico di Milano. He was awarded the 22nd Compasso d’Oro ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) Award for his design research with Design Research Maps (2011).

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.