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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.

Bjarke Ingels is an architect and founder of the Bjarke Ingels Group – BIG – a design consultancy practicing within the fields of Landscape, Engineering, Architecture, and Product Design. 

Over two decades Bjarke and BIG have been contributing to the built environment with a socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable approach to architecture and urbanism under the philosophy of Hedonistic Sustainability – the idea that sustainable buildings and cities not only are good for the environment – but increase the quality of life for the people inhabiting them.

Co-Founder and Director, Superflux & Professor, Design Investigations, Angewandte, Vienna.

A designer, filmmaker, futurist and educator, Anab Jain grew up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, within the entangled postcolonial landscapes of a fast-growing nation. Through a series of planned and unplanned circumstances, she has made London her home. Although the idea of a ‘home’ remains as expansive as our hearts and minds.

Born in Sofia in 1978. Graduated from the National School of Italian Language and Culture in Sofia, she studied Economics and Commerce in Milan, where she worked in the fashion photography sector, dealing with publishing and advertising campaigns.
She has always drawn.

The strong focus on marketing and product strategy, as well as image, persisted over the next twenty years of tangible expressions, on the border between art and design.

Anniina Koivu is a design writer, curator, consultant and teacher, who divides her time between Milan and Lausanne. She works across a number of fields, from curation to art direction, product development, and editorial and research projects, which she develops for clients such as Kvadrat, Iittala, Vitra, Camper and the Fogo Island Workshops and Shorefast Foundation.

Arianna Lago is an Italian photographer currently based in Los Angeles. Arianna pursued a BA in Sound Art and Design at the University of the arts in London. During her degree, she began playing with images which consequently led her to work as a compositor and visual effects artist. While working on feature films, advertising, and tv Arianna self-trained in photography and kept shooting personal work. It became more clear to her that photography was her only outlet for her creative vision Through passion and determination, She turned her love for photography into a career.

Gaia Lamperti is a multimedia journalist based in London covering art, design and technology through the lens of social inclusion and sustainable innovation. With a degree in Italian Literature from the University of Milan (2015-2018) and a Master’s degree in International Journalism from City, University of London (2019-2020), Gaia has worked with international media companies, online publications and non-profit organisation across news reporting, feature writing, podcasting and visual storytelling.

Graduated in Liberal Studies in Communication from the University of Milan in 2021, he later earned a Master in Music Publishing and Production from the IULM Communication School in 2022.

After curating a cinematography-centered radio program broadcasted from Radio Statale during his university years, he served on the editorial staff for the Milan-based indipendent station Radio Popolare. 

Beatrice Leanza is a cultural strategist, curator and critic with a background in Asian studies who was based in Beijing for 17 years. She served as executive director of maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, creative director of Beijing Design Week, and co-founded The Global School, the first independent institute for interdisciplinary creative research established in the PRC.

He was born in 1953 in Milan, where he lives and works. Alongside his professional work as a contemporary art photographer, he has also been a conceptual artist since the 80s, exploring the meaning of language, documented by exhibitions and publications. He has been the curator of his grandfather Gio Ponti’s archive since the 90s and has devoted himself to furthering the knowledge of his work, setting up the important Gio Ponti Archives database.