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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.

Francesco Zurlo, Full Professor of Industrial Design, is Dean of the School of Design at the Politecnico di Milano. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Observatory on Design Thinking for Business at the Politecnico and ADI lndex. He is scientific director of the Executive Master in Design Strategy and System innovation and co-director of the Master in Design Strategies and the Master in Furniture Design of POLI.design, a consortium of the Politecnico di Milano.