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(1990). Goren is an architect and interior designer, living and working in Milan Born in Ankara, she moved to Italy at the age of 22 following her passion for Italian culture, language and history Her studies have followed an interdisciplinary and international path, with years at METU in Ankara, the University of Bologna and, finally, Milan’s Polytechnic where she graduated with a thesis titled “Syntax Form in Architecture”.  

Adelina Greca has graduated from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has followed post-graduate studies in the Department of Urban Planning, the Urban Design Program at the same university. Adelina has an extensive experience in planning and public sector. She worked as an architect and urban planner at the Municipality of Tirana from 2003 until 2011. She has worked in a number of managing and executive positions during her tenure at the Municipality of Tirana.

Based in Milan, his creative experience started at age 13, studying 5 years in the artistic school of Busto Arsizio, where he was born in 1992. He decided to continue his studies by progressing to the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milano, studying product and interior design. 

Marva Griffin was born in Venezuela, and Milan became her city of adoption when, in the seventies, she started to work in the field of design and furnishing.

She began her career as PR communication at what was then the C&B Italia company (now B&B Italia), working with Piero Ambrogio Busnelli, owner and chairman of the company.

She became the correspondent/representative in Italy for a number of Conde Nast Publications: French Maison & Jardin, Vogue Decoration, American House & Garden and American Vogue. 

Born in Milan, he worked as an educator with minors in group homes and schools for over 10 years. He then attended the Mi-Master’s course in Editorial Illustration and decided to completely devote himself to illustration. He started working with the Purple Rain Illustrators agency, which found him his first jobs overseas. He soon received several commissions from the United States, including from Google, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Airbnb, Penguin, Bloomberg Businessweek, Scientific American, National Public Radio, Variety.

An interior designer who studied at the Politecnico di Milano and the Rhode Island School of Design, she first joined the editorial staff of Domus in 2011 and has since worked under six Editors-in-Chief on the magazine and three on the website. After working as a freelance designer in Ghent, Belgium, and for Louis Vuitton's e-commerce concern in Brussels, she returned to Italy in 2016 to work as web editor on the Domus website (domusweb.it), for which she now oversees content.

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.

Established in 2005, Random International is a post digital art group exploring the impact of technological development on the human condition. Best known for their large-scale interactive installations, the group works across an array of media including sculpture, light, kinetics, video, print, and sound. Led by founders Hannes Koch (b.1975, Germany) and Florian Ortkrass (b.1975, Germany), the group has a studio in London and comprises a global team of complementary talent. Experimental by nature, Random International’s practice is fuelled by research and scientific discovery.

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.