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A well-known face on MTV, a special envoy for the show Le Lene, as well as a judge on X Factor, she hosted the 2006 Sanremo Festival alongside Giorgio Panariello and Ilary Blasi, the talk show Victor Victoria on La7, and the football show Quelli che il Calcio on Rai2. With her explosive irony, Victoria Cabello has been a familiar face over many television seasons, and she also counts radio and film appearances amongst her achievements.

Giovanna Calvenzi was a picture editor for a number of Italian periodicals from 1985 to 2019. She was artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie di Arles in 1998, guest curator of Photo España in Madrid in 2002, and artistic delegate, with Laura Serani, to Paris Photo Month in 2014. She has taught history of photography and photo editing in Milan and Bologna and is heavily involved in research into contemporary photography. She has looked after the Gabriele Basilico Archive since 2013. Her publications include Italia.

(1966) Having graduated from Milan’s Polytechnic with a thesis on the relationship between philosophy and architecture, Calzavara is an architect and freelance journalist, and also works in planning, teaching, critiquing and curating. He studied under Corrado Levi and attended the art and philosophy workshop “Thinking of Art” with Jacques Derrida, Carlo Sini and Studio Azzurro. His works are showcased at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Triennale di Milano, the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, and the Urban Center in Milan. 

Humberto Campana (1953) and his brother Fernando (1961) co-founded Studio Campana in 1984. The Studio has achieved national and international recognition for its furniture design and intriguing pieces.

Elisa Carassai is a writer, copywriter and editorial strategist born and grew up in Milan, specialised in fashion, design and culture, who currently collaborates with brands, creative agencies and publications. She moved to London in September 2014 for a year of training at the Condè Nast College of Fashion and Design and to study fashion journalism at the London College of Fashion.

Architect’s education, journalist’s profession, she has intertwined research with design and actuality since her graduation at the Polytechnic of Milan. Writing is a practice developed and trained in the making: at the Triennale, for the exhibitions 'The glasses taken seriously' and 'The dress taken off the body'; at the university, with the publication of the book ‘Leggere le Tendenze' (F. Lupetti Editore, 2007), deep the editorial staff of Elle Decor Italia and today for important Italian magazine such as Mondadori, Rcs and Editoriale Domus groups.

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.

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. 

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

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 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.