Contributor

A native of California, Ivan Carvalho is a journalist who has covered Italy since 2003. He has extensive experience working in print and video, covering topics from design to food & dining. He began his journalism career at Wired magazine in San Francisco. Since 2007, he has worked as Milan correspondent for Monocle magazine and has contributed to a number of publications, including Fortune, Italy’s Icon Design, Swedish interiors magazine Plaza Deco as well as in-flight media for Swiss Airlines, SAS and Emirates.

Matilde Cassani Studio operates in the area where architecture, installations and design events intersect. Its work is inspired by the spatial implications of cultural pluralism, and has been exhibited in a great many institutions and events, including the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York (2011); three editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012, 2014 and 2018); the Victoria and Albert Museum (2015); the Oslo Triennale (2016); the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017); Manifesta 12 (2018) and Triennale Milano (2019).

Giorgio Castagno, who graduated in Dentistry and Dental Prosthesis from the University of Insubria, began his professional career in 2000 by opening a private practice and actively participating in non-profit initiatives. He has obtained four master's degrees, specializing in Implantology, Prosthodontics and Implant Prosthetics, Periodontal Therapy, and Digital Dentistry. Towards the end of 2018, he founded Robota SRL, an innovative start-up born with the aim of fully automating the sterilization process in the medical field.

Innate freedom of observation, erudite, curious and playful. A great capacity for scientific and aesthetic investigation. Obsessed by material and geometry, she moves across history and traditions, altering the scale of objects, creating new conceptual and decorative canons, where nature speaks to us in unanimity. She intertwines a transdisciplinary approach with analytical rigor, leading to unexpected spaces, objects and experiences.

Edoardo Ceriani, aged 56, a professional journalist from Como since 1991, sports editor in chief of  La Provincia. 

Vinita Chaitanya, Founder Prism, raccoglie successi dal 1988 e ben riflette il branding personale della sua fondatrice. Chaitanya descrive il suo stile come “classico contemporaneo”: un mix euforico di sete suntuose, fantasie paisley tradizionali, eccellenti artefatti indiani e oggetti occidentali tra i più desiderabili. Nota come influencer, compare spesso sulle copertine e tra le pagine di riviste come Architectural Digest ed Elle Decor, e spesso partecipa a giurie ed eventi nel mondo del design. Gestisce anche una charity school nel distretto di Kodagu.

Writer and Specialist, Patachitra Folk Art

Tony Chambers is a Creative Director, Design Consultant and Editor. He is the founder of creative agency TC & Friends and co-founder, with artist Ryan Gander, of OTOMOTO – the design, art and ideas platform.

Dylan Chandler is an architectural photographer, specializing in interiors and in situ documentary. His recent book Bricks and Brownstone (Rizzoli, 2019) is critically acclaimed by photographers and architects worldwide.

Aric Chen is the newly-appointed General and Artistic Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and previous to that was Professor and Director of the Curatorial Lab at the College of Design & Innovation at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Curatorial Director of the Design Miami fairs.

Yoko Choy
China Editor, Wallpaper* magazine; Co-founder, Collective Contemporist
@missyoko

Aldo Cibic, founder of Cibicworkshop, was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1955. In 1981, as a partner in Sottsass Associati, he was a founding member of Memphis. His projects, such as "Microrealities" (2004) and "Rethinking Happiness" (2010), have been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale. His work is mainly related to researching and designing communities and places. ldo Cibic is honorary professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai.  

Roberto Cingolani was born in 1961 in Milan. In 1985 he graduated in Physics and obtained his “Diploma di Perfezionamento” (PhD) in Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.

He was staff member at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and Visiting Professor at Tokyo University (Japan) and Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, USA).

Architect and Museographer

Architect and Communication Designer, Paolo Ciuccarelli is professor of design, he founded and directs the Center for Design at Northeastern University, coordinated the Communication Design program at Politecnico di Milano, where he has been also a member of the board at the PhD in Design. At Politecnico he founded, and co-directs, the DensityDesign Lab, an award-winning research laboratory doing research on data visualization and information design.

Born in Milan, after his classical and musical studies he graduated in architecture at Politecnico of Milan in 1987, supervisor Marco Zanuso, with the thesis The Vegetables factory. In 1989 he began his partnership with Pierluigi Cerri at Gregotti Associati International of which he is associated from 1995 to 1998. In 1991 he wins with Paola Garbuglio the Major of Osaka City Prize with the project:“Terra: Instructions for Use”. With Bruno Morassutti he participates in international architecture competitions where gets accolades.