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Interior designer and director of the masters “High education design” at POLI.design – Polytechnic University of Milan. He has been also professor at the design faculty of the Milan Polytechnic University and  President of AIPi – Italian Association of Interior Designers.

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Guendalina Salimei, Architect and Professor in Architectural Design, she founded T-Studio in Rome, combining the practice of ethical design with experimental research, preferring interventions in built and natural environments, often in conditions of discomfort and degradation, pursuing responsible living in the social, environmental and technological spheres. She is director of the Master in Building Design and member of the scientific committees of prestigious institutions such as the Villa Vigoni Centre of Excellence, the Accademia Angelica Costantiniana di Lettere Arti e Scienze and the Michelucci Foundation.

In addition to her participation in conferences, publications and intense teaching and field activities, she has realised more than a hundred works including redevelopments, reuses and public architectures, in Italy and abroad, winning national and international prizes and awards.

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 Saturnino (Ascoli Piceno, 1969) is regarded by critics as one of the top international bassists. A composer of both cult and popular music, Saturnino made his solo recording debut in 1995 with Testa di basso, an album that reveals his exceptional technical mastery and a never self-serving virtuosity, as well as outstanding compositional skills and eclecticism. Saturnino wrote all the tracks on Testa di basso and alternates on bass, drums and guitar.
The album met with considerable critical and public acclaim and was the only work by an Italian artist to be released on the prestigious American label Verve. The same year, Verve invited Saturnino to perform at the official Italian presentation at the Propaganda club in Milan alongside Chris Botti and Gary Thomas.
However, Testa di basso was not Saturnino’s first recording experience as he had previously collaborated with Lorenzo Jonavotti in 1991 as bassist and co-writer. He went on to record a total of eight albums with Jovanotti, including a live double album.
His other solo CDs are Zelig (1996), the live album SaTOURnino (1997) and Clima (2000). A versatile instrumentalist capable of adapting to any style, his albums bring together inspirations ranging from his classical music studies (he began studying violin at the age of five) to his passion for funk, jazz, rock and hip hop. Although his music lends itself naturally to a wide range of influences, it rejects all forms of direct reference. Saturnino embraces a concept of musical nomadism in which the artist can move freely in musical territory previously occupied by others. He shuns passive repetition and instead uses creativity to achieve fresh and complex forms of musical expression.
A milestone in Saturnino’s musical and personal development was his meeting in 1991 with Lorenzo Jovanotti. The strong rapport established between the two spawned such successful tracks as L’ombelico del mondo, Io No, Penso Positivo and Salvami. Saturnino also provided the powerful rhythmic base for Il mio nome è mai più, a track recorded by Pierò Pelù, Jovanotti and Ligabue in 1999 to support Emergency. With sales topping six hundred thousand, it became one of the most successful singles of the past decade.

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Matthias Sauerbruch is an architect, founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton. From 1985 to 1990 he taught at the AA, from 1995 to 2001 he was professor at the TU Berlin, and from 2001 to 2007 professor at the Stuttgart Akademie der Bildenden Künste. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2008 to 2011 and a guest professor at Universität der Künste Berlin from 2012 to 2014. Sauerbruch has lectured, chaired and participated in juries and contributed to conferences around the globe. He is a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council, a commissioner of the Zurich Building Council, a trustee of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, a member of the Berlin Akademie der Künste and a Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Sauerbruch Hutton is an international award-winning agency for architecture, urbanism and design founded by Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch in 1989. Sauerbruch Hutton has been recognised for its long-term engagement with sustainability. Its integrated design approach aims for an architecture that combines ecological performance with intuition and sensuality. Among Sauerbruch Hutton’s projects are the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, the Brandhorst Museum in Munich and the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau, all benchmarks for sustainable design. Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch were awarded the Erich Schelling Prize in 1998, the Fritz Schumacher Prize for Architecture in 2003, the International Honour Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2010 and the Gottfried-Semper-Award 2013. For the Immanuel Church in Cologne Sauerbruch Hutton was awarded the German Architecture Award 2015. The practice is currently working on a number of projects in Germany and Europe, including the M9 Museum of the 20th Century in Venice.

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Architect. Born in 1956 at Ibaragi. Graduated from Japan Women’s University with Master Degree in Architecture.  Worked for Toyo Ito office for several years and established Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1987. In 1995, she established SANAA with Ryue Nishizawa. Main awards are The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan, The ministry of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize, Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010. Main projects include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, The Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Dior Omotesnado, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Rolex Learning Center (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne). Currently, Louvre Lens project is under construction.

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During his professional and academic career at the Carlo Bo University of Urbino, Alessandro Sistri has worked in the fields of territorial and business communications, enhancement and promotion of the local identity, tourism and cultural marketing. He has over ten years’ experience in the organisation of hospitality circuits in various national contexts. Since the Eighties he has been responsible for many different projects in the field of territorial marketing and local and business promotion, on behalf of public institutions and private associations. He has published a number of books with Touring Club Italiano and other Italian publishers including Slow Food, Diabasis, Minerva and others besides. His bibliography runs from scientific to popular studies of territorial, ethnographic, historical and sociological identity and to information guides on the cultural and environmental heritage of many Italian areas.

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Around 1980, Ko Sliggers was one of the iconoclastic young designers who contributed to what has become known as the ‘Dumbar style’.

After two years at Studio Dumbar, Sliggers worked as an independent designer, became a professional cook in Rotterdam, Italy and France, switched back from food to design, collaborating with Jan van Toorn for the Delta Expo, designed the first Rotterdam Foto Biënnale exhibition, designing post stamps and books, theater posters and exhibitions, producing challenging visuals at Studio Anthon Beeke and, in 2002, set up a one-man studio in Lalleweer, in the northern province of Groningen where he started his font foundry dutchfonts.com. In 2007 after the release of his book ‘Sus domesticus, the pig on your table’ he went to France to set up a restaurant. From winter 2008 he lives in Italy where was a chef on the island Lipari, teaches graphic design at Abadir academy, designs his fonts and collaborates with design studios. His cookbook ‘cooking between volcanoes’ will be published in the autumn of 2013.

‘Although he was trained by Chris Brand at the St.Joost Academy in Breda, Sliggers is not part of the Dutch tradition of literary, historically inspired type design. Sliggers’s work has always stood out for its energy and unconventionality.’ (Jan Middendorp in ‘Dutch Type’)

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Enrique Sobejano has worked as an architect since graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York in 1981. He is professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), where he holds the chair of Principles of Design. He has been a visiting critic and lecturer at various international universities worldwide. From 1986 to 1991 he was co-director of the architectural journal ARQUITECTURA, published by the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid. He chairs and participates in international conferences and juries and is a founding partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded in 1985 by Enrique Sobejano and Fuensanta Nieto, and has offices in Madrid and, since 2007, in Berlin. Along with being widely published in international magazines and books, the firm’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2012; at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, in 2006; and at the Kunsthaus in Graz in 2008. They are the recipients of the 2008 National Prize for Restoration from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the 2010 Nike Prize issued by the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), as well as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010, the Piranesi Prix de Rome in 2011, and, in 2012, the European Museum of the Year Award and the Hannes Meyer Prize. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos currently have projects in Germany, Spain, Austria, India, and Morocco.

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Attilio Stocchi graduated in 1991 from Milan Polytechnic, where he studied under Vittoriano Viganò.
He lives and works in Milan.
His design career, ranging from open spaces to monuments, art venues, environmental systems, exhibits and installations, maps out a journey of experimental research in which word and shadow are fragments of the architectural construction process.
His many open spaces include: Aurea (2001), Piazza Mario Codussi in Lenna (BG), (Abitare, 400, November 2000); Palinsesto (2002), Piazza Angelo Maj in Schilpario (BG), (Abitare, 440, June 2004); Polla (2005), Piazza Libertà in Spirano (BG), (Abitare, 465, October 2006); Galaverna (2005), Piazza Castello in Castel Rozzone (BG), (Abitare, 465, October 2006); Viridis (2006), Piazza San Fermo in Almè (BG), (Abitare, 474, July-August 2007), which won an Honourable Mention for Public Spaces and Infrastructures in 2009, Gold Medal for Italian Architecture.
He has conceived and curated numerous monument metamorphosis projects including: Lucegugliavoce (2007), a performance in which the statues located on the spires of Milan Cathedral dialogue with each other, transforming the building into an open-air theatre (Domus, 909, December 2007; Abitare, 474, July-August 2007); Librocielo for the Milan Furniture Show (2012), a multimedia event animated by the voices of the books conserved in the Ambrosian Library and Art Gallery, which earned an Honourable Mention for Installations, Gold Medal at the Triennale 2015.
His interiors include Trafitta (2002), Loft in Ciserano (BG), (Abitare, 418, June 2002; Loft, Federico Motta Editore, 2003); Iride in Milan, (Abitare, 474, July-August 2007). His parks include ParcoLumen (2011), in Lumezzane (BS), which earned an Honourable Mention for Parks and Gardens 2012, Gold Medal for Italian Architecture. He has created numerous art venues and environmental systems, including Vortice (2013), a spectacular new belvedere on the banks of the river Adda, Vaprio d’Adda (MI), (Domus, 974, November 2013); PadiglioneLumen (2011), a building in Lumezzane (BS); Bulbo (2008), art gallery, a “hypogeometric” polyhedron in the historic centre of Milan, which won the Vergilius d’Oro Award, Electa in 2008 and an Honourable Mention for Culture/Leisure 2009, Gold Medal for Italian Architecture (Domus, 917, September 2008); Cuorebosco (2011), an installation that created a forest of lights, sounds and misty trees in Piazza San Fedele, Milan; Interiora (2014), a sound sculpture at Rocca d’Olgisio (PC).
His exhibits and installations include the design and creation of 7011, an exhibition entitled “Gio Ponti. Torre del Parco e altri esagoni. Metamorfosi di un cristallo” (“Gio Ponti. Torre del Parco and other hexagons. Metamorphosis of a crystal”) (1997), held in the Salone delle Cerimonie at the Palazzo dell’Arte (Abitare, 367, November 1997; Museum exhibits, Federico Motta Editore, 2003); Fluxum (2004), at the Palazzo Reale in Milan; Attesa (2010), for the Italian Pavilion at the 22nd Venice Architecture Biennale; Seme (2013), a sculpture marking the opening of the new Foscarini flagship store in Milan; Stadia (2015) for the exhibition “EX_PO. Milano e la sua distanza” (“EX_PO. Milan and its distance”) held at the Milan Triennale (Domus, 988, February 2015).
In 2015, he conceived and designed the opening event for the Milan International Furniture Show entitled “Favilla. Ogni luce una voce” (“Spark. Every light a voice”).
In 2016, he designed the Milan Pavilion (Vermiglia) and the Pavilion for the Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Heritage Commission (Umbracula) at the 21st Triennale.
In 2017, he created “Muse”, an event and installation held in the Sala delle Cariatidi in Palazzo Reale for Museocity Milano.
He designed the Collina di Ermes in Palazzo Citterio in Milan (Domus, 1027, September 2018).
He is currently involved in a major project to remodel the Roman amphitheatre in Milan, with and for the Commissioner for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Heritage Antonella Ranaldi (PAN. Amphitheatrum Naturae).
During his experimental career, he has worked with various artists including musicians (Luciano Berio), painters (Mimmo Paladino), sculptors (Iginio Balderi) and scriptwriters (Tonino Guerra).

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An environmental engineer, she has been actively working on the challenge of sustainability since the early 2000s. She is currently President of Save The Planet APS and an expert trainer in the field of technical physics, sustainable construction and environmental certification.
At Lombardini22 she recently began working on a virtuous and challenging project alongside the group’s Urban&Building, Workplace, Retail, Hospitality, Living, Education, DataCenter and Civil Engineering business units aimed at integrating ESG criteria right from the design phase of real estate assets as part of an ESG-included approach. She sees environmental, social and economic sustainability as an essential daily practice, an aim to be pursued through the constant work of the entire community of professionals.

The ACA (Amore Campione Architettura) architecture practice opened in Catania in 2010. It was founded by Sebastiano Amore and Angela Maria Campione to seek a union of architectural theory, research and experimentation. In 2011, Corrado S. Gioia joined the team. They have taken part in numerous competitions, receiving recognition and having their designs built, such as: a competition in 2014 to regenerate the Savona seafront; a competition in 2013 to revamp the Inarcassa premises in Rome; winning a 2012 competition to regenerate the Duilio di Favignana seafront (Trapani province), for which they also received a mention at the Mauro Rostagno Architecture Award.

Sebastiano Amore was born in Catania in 1980 and graduated in architectural engineering and architecture from the University of Catania. He has also taught at the University of Catania in the Architectonic Composition I and II courses. In 2009, he worked with the 5+1AA practice to design museums, restaurants and residential high-rise buildings. He has displayed his work at Milan’s Triennale di Architettura and Salone del Mobile, and at Venice’s IUAV university.

Angela Maria Campione was born in Marsala in 1981 and graduated in architectural engineering and architecture from the University of Catania, obtaining the highest marks possible. She has taught technical courses at the University of Catania. Since 2008, she has designed and built a number of houses and shops.