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Nadja was the first female member of the Executive Board of Swarovski, which was founded in Austria by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895. She led the Branding, Sustainability and Licensing divisions and launched the luxury fashion jewelry and home décor brand Atelier Swarovski.

Nao Tamura is a designer in the most modern terms. Her talents cross-over cultures, languages, disciplines, concepts and styles with consistency of smart thinking always at the heart of her work. She is truly global in her insights and execution. As a product of Tokyo and New York City creative communities, her solutions are equally at ease in the world of 2D and 3D, with an uncanny ability to find that emotional connection with the industry status-quo often insists upon. Her unique solutions are more than simply design and possess a rare balance of innovation and beauty.

Born in Milan, he became interested in photography after completing his studies in Art History. His work focuses on urban space, architecture and interiors, approached not with an eye influenced by his study of architecture, rather by his own, direct experience. His work has appeared in magazines such as Icon Design, Domus, Wallpaper*, T-Magazine and AD. Leading clients include Jil Sander, Sunnei, Flos and Mutina. He released his book Sunset, an immersive journey around the city of Tokyo, in 2020.  

Marjan van Aubel Studio is an award-winning innovative solar design practice that brings solar

energy into daily life. Designing for a positive future through combining the fields of

sustainability, design and technology.

The studio is creating lasting change through solar design, integrating solar power seamlessly

into our environments such as in buildings and objects. With the goal to make solar power

more accessible for everyone. Most notable works are Sunne, Current Table, Power Plant and

Classe 1986, giornalista con un debole per i viaggi e la fotografia. Si laurea allo IED di Milano e lavora nella redazione di Casamica prima di partire per un giro del mondo con la sua reflex.

Federico Villa was born in Como in 1983 and he studied Industrial Design at Politecnico in Milan. Federico opened his studio in 2010 and started to work with important Italian design companies and architecture firms. The fundamentals of his work are to focus on the qualities of a specific product, the space and an individual in the photographic image: project and subject become a single and continuous course. At the same time he is devoting particular attention on photography used as archiving of contemporaneity with a critical analysis between natural and artificial.

Armand Vokshi is a university Associate Professor and has been the Chair of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanistics at the Polytechnic of Tirana since 2020.
He graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence in 2005. He continued his Architecture and Town Planning Research Doctorate at the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence is 2010-2013, on the subject Traces of Italian Architecture in Albania 1925-1943. 

Lukas Wegwerth works on the intersection of crafted objects and engineered modular structures. All projects find common ground in the territory of joints and connection making and their accompanying methods and strategies. The Three+One system is an ongoing project that explores a straightforward approach to modular constructions— from furniture to architectural-scale structures. It provides a platform for collaborative building, lending itself to use in multiple contexts such as exhibition design, academic research, public spaces and private interior.

Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures.

Photographer, originally from Treviso, now living and working in Milan.  Her personal research interests lie in the urban landscape and in documenting reality; her shots are informed by a particular desire to depict space in its aesthetic and narrative form, unearthing the subjects for her narratives of daily life in apparently marginal details.  

Maurizio Zanella, founder and chairman Ca 'del Bosco.

Ca’ del Bosco is a leading producer of Franciacorta wines. It has reached this position thanks to the enthusiasm, dedication and hard work which, since the ‘70s, have transformed a house in the chestnut woods into one of the region’s most modern and advanced wineries.

At Ca’ del Bosco, there is only one guiding principle that shapes all our production process, from the vineyards to bottling, and that is quality. The very highest level of quality, in fact: excellence.

After graduating in Economics from the University of Zagreb she decided to follow her heart, and love took her to Italy.

A Florentine by birth, she now lives in her adopted city of Paris, after moving around for several years. She works in communication in the field of design, moving seamlessly and passionately between the great design classics, speculative research and scalable prototypes. She graduated in Communication Science from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the semiotics of design and specialised in multimedia design at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Florence and in design management at the Parsons in New York.

Born in Milano in 1955, Cino Zucchi graduated at M.I.T. and at the Politecnico di Milano, where he presently teaches. Author of several articles and books on architectural theory and history, he has been the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture and Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD. Together with his studio CZA he has designed and realized several buildings, public spaces and master plans which deserved prizes and mentions.