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Alessia Delisi is a freelance journalist specialized in design, architecture, art and visual culture in general. Born in Palermo and Milan-based, she graduated in Aesthetic Philosophy at the State University of Milan with top marks and a thesis on Julio Cortázar's Rayuela. She immediately began writing, about art above all, but soon also about design and trends.

In 1993, Hervé Descottes founded the lighting design and consulting firm L’Observatoire International in New York, after eight years of design practice in Paris, France. He personally creates the lighting concepts for all projects designed by L’Observatoire International, and oversees project development through project completion. Descottes has been recognized numerous times by the lighting design and architectural community.

British contemporary artist and designer Es Devlin views an audience as a temporary society and invites public participation in communal choral works.

Maria Cristina Didero is an independent design curator, consultant and author, who has collaborated with different magazines and contributed to many publications; she is currently covering the role of Milan editor for Wallpper magazine. Didero has consulted for companies such as Vitra, Fritz Hansen, Lexus, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Valextra among others.  

She studied History of Art at the Complutense University of Madrid and Decorative Arts of the 19th and 20th Century at Sotheby’s Art Institute in London. Since 1989 she has worked as a freelance journalist, writer and curator specializing in Design.

Spatial designer, she writes about design and architecture. After educational experiences in New York, London and Weimar, she now splits her life and work between the very north east of Italy and Milan, where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Interior and Spatial Design at the Milan's Polytechnic, specialising in temporary installations, interior architecture and exhibition design. She teaches at the IED in Turin and has contributed to Zero, Elle Decor, Living, Domusweb, Exibart, Icon Design, Pizza, Sali e Tabacchi, Sapiens and Carnale.

Luca Umberto Dondoni is a journalist, writer, radio and television host and speaker. He has worked with a number of radio stations since 1976, both as a creator and host of programmes and as a correspondent for leading music events  both in Italy and abroad. Over the course of his career, he has interviewed the leading global protagonists on the international music scene. Luca Umberto Dondoni has also collaborated with a number of Italian and foreign music and lifestyle publications, and with the newspaper La Stampa.

Sarah Douglas is a consultant at the Steve Jobs Archive, an agent for Martino Gamper, and Global Advisor to Hauser & Wirth’s magazine, Ursula. She was previously at Wallpaper* for 16 years as Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director, and prior to that Art Editor at The Architects’ Journal. Sarah is on the board of trustees of Studio Voltaire in London, the ITS Arcademy in Trieste and is committed to supporting the next generation of creative talent.

Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded DRIFT in 2007. With a multidisciplinary team of artists, engineers and programmers, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances. DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it. With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT’s works of art illuminate parallels between manmade and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes.

As the Chief Commercial Officer of the Starhotels Group, I oversee a multifaceted portfolio encompassing Sales, Marketing, Revenue, and Distribution for the Group's 30 prestigious properties.  

With a dedicated team of 85 professionals under my guidance, I am committed to driving growth and excellence across our hospitality ventures. 

Anthony is a University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and Co-Director of the Designed Realities Studio at Parsons/The New School in New York. 

Fabio Ermetto graduated in naval engineering in the Netherlands. He is a widely recognised and esteemed professional in international boating. He held important positions both in Italy – as CCO at Benetti, where he worked for 10 years, also as the Chairperson of Fraser Yachts – and abroad, where, for 7 years, he was Heesen’s Sales & Marketing Director. In 2017 he became Camper&Nicholsons’ CCO. 

Cas Esbach is a project leader and architect located in MVRDV’s Rotterdam Office. With a rich professional background that includes positions at Derksen|Windt in Delft, Civic Projects in Chicago, and BIG in New York, Cas has been an integral part of the MVRDV team in Rotterdam for over five years. He has significantly contributed to and led numerous impactful projects during his tenure. His notable achievements include successful projects such as the Shenzhen Terraces, Tripolis Park in Amsterdam, and Valley in Amsterdam.

A suitcase always at the ready – with parents from Naples, a twin sister, brothers and nieces and nephews scattered around Italy, two important relationships in Rome – she lives in Milan where she writes about design, architecture and lifestyle practices, collaborating with different magazines like Living, Interni, Icon Design, Domus, Klat Magazine. 

Born in Milan in 1996, Fabrizio Fasanella is a journalist who mainly writes about environment, climate change, cities, urban mobility and lifestyle. His goal is to show, through journalistic analysis, the pervasiveness of topics related to sustainability, because when we talk about “green” we talk about everything: from rights to labor, from economy to energy, from politics to culture. He currently works in Linkiesta’s newsroom as coordinator of Greenkiesta and editor of Linkiesta Etc, the newspaper’s sections dealing with the environment and lifestyle, respectively.