David Abulafia’s special interests lie in maritime history, particularly the history of maritime trade. His history of the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the present, The Great Sea: a Human History of the Mediterranean (Penguin, 2011), won the British Academy Medal and has been translated into twelve languages. Its successor, The Boundless Sea: a Human History of the Oceans (Penguin, 2019), was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2020, and both these books have received the Mountbatten Literary Award of the Maritime Foundation.

Saleh Addonia is a London-based Eritrean-Ethiopian writer.

Agaaqtoq (Abraham Eetak) is a singer and songwriter who lives in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada. His debut album Agaaqtoq was released in the summer of 2014.

Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a German artist, a member of the Bauhaus who then emigrated to the United States with the onset of Nazism. Best known as an abstract painter, he was in actual fact an eclectic artist, skilled in the handling of glass and metal, as well as in designing furniture and dealing with print processes.

Hamza Alioua grew up at the height of the music blog era and he experienced the Arab Spring uprisings in Morocco first hand. His work revolves around communal identities and border crossing in relation to music.

Alterazioni Video is an artists’ collective made up of Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Alberto Caffarelli, Matteo Erenbourg, Andrea Masu and Giacomo Porfiri, founded in Milan in 2004 and based in New York, Berlin and Milan. They are known for ‘Incompiuto Siciliano’, a project reinterpreting the Italian landscape and its unfinished architecture, also displayed at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale and at the MAXXI Museum of Rome. The collective has produced ten films, brought together under the name Turbo Film and screened at cinema festivals and in art spaces, including Performa, New York; the Milan Film Festival; Art Basel Miami and PAC, Milan. In 2019, they collaborated with Virgil Abloh as artistic directors for the Off-White Fall/Winter runway show inspired by the Incompiuto.

Born in Venice, Giorgio Andreotta Calò studied sculpture at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He was an assistant to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov between 2001 and 2007. From 2009 to 2011, he was artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2012 he was awarded the Italian Prize for Contemporary Art at MAXXI in Rome, and between 2013 and 2014 he spent a period in New York with a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2017, he was one of the three artists in the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In the same year, he won the Italian Council’s first call to create a monumental installation at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam (2018). In 2019, the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan dedicated an extensive retrospective to his work. Between 2017 and 2024, he created a permanent environmental work in the Chianti hills for the Castello di Ama collection. His work may be found in the main collections of Italian contemporary art museums and in prestigious private collections in Italy and abroad. Since 2016 his studio has been based in Venice, and since 2021 he has taught at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in the sculpture department.

Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican writer based in London.

Stefano Arienti graduated in agrarian sciences with a dissertation on virology. He began as an artist in 1985 in the ex-Brown Boveri factory in Milan, where he met Corrado Levi, his first maestro. He has taken part in the 45th Venice Biennale (Aperto 1990, 1993), the 3rd Istanbul Biennale (1992), the XII Rome Quadriennale (where he won first prize, 1996), and the 7th Biennial of Gwangju (2008). A keen traveller, he is today one of the best-known Italian artists.

Jaypeetee Arnakak is a writer, translator, blogger, and educator based in Rankin Inlet, Nunavik, Canada. After a long career as a policy analyst specializing in Inuit culture, language, and education issues, he now works as a translator.

ARTECO is an association active in Turin since 2010.

Nina Artioli is an architect, niece of Gae Aulenti, and director of the Archivio Gae Aulenti. She is a partner at the architecture firm T Spoon.

Shuvinai Ashoona is a visual artist, who lives in Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. She works primarily with pen and ink, coloured pencils, and markers on paper, developing works that portray social interactions as well as encounters with otherworldly creatures.

Marc Augé (1935-2023), French philosopher, wasis one of the most eminent contemporary anthropologists. He is best known in the world for his book Non-Lieux. Introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity).

Gae Aulenti (1927–2012) was a leading figure in Italian design from the 1960s to the turn of the century and is regarded as one of the finest architects of her generation. Alongside her many design objects, she is also renowned for her architectural and display projects, including the Palazzo Grassi in Venice and the Gare d’Orsay in Paris.

Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect and professor. He teaches at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he directs the laboratory Theory and Project of Domestic Space. He previously taught at the Architectural Association in London and Yale School of Architecture. Together with Martino Tattara, he is the co-founder of Dogma, an office for architecture based in Brussels. Dogma deals with large-scale interventions, urban research, and especially domestic space and its potential for transformation. He is the author of many essays and books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008), The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011), Less is Enough (2013), The City as a Project (2014), and Architecture and Abstraction (2023).

Taneha K. Bacchin is an architect, researcher, and educator with a transnational background working at the intersection of urban design, landscape architecture, and the environmental sciences and humanities. She is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, where she is the co-lead of Critical Environments Research Group, and serves as Chief Editor of the Journal of Delta Urbanism.

Andrea Bagnato is an architect and writer. He has curated exhibitions, taught and lectured widely, and published several books.

A classical philologist and writer.

Marina Ballo Charmet is an artist who works with photography and video. Her research explores everyday life, the ‘always seen’ which she calls ‘the background noise of our mind.’

Joanna Banham is a freelance curator, lecturer and writer.

Pietro Maria Bardi (1900–1999) was an Italian writer, curator and collector, mostly known for being the Founding Director of the MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo.

Tina Barouti is an art historian, curator, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. Her research interests include histories of colonialism, decolonization movements, art in times of war, and modern art outside of the Euro-American canon of art history.

Massimo Bartolini is an artist whose practice spans a wide array of languages and materials, including performative works, complex sound sculptures, photographs, videos, and large-scale public installations. In 2024, he represented Italy at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Gianfranco Baruchello (1924–2023) was an Italian artist and painter of international fame. As a great experimenter of techniques and languages, since the mid-1950s the artist has explored painting, installation, assemblage, film, photography, drawing, writing and sound works, broadening his visual research well beyond the traditional environments of the medium and the language of art, only to enter the practices of agriculture, anthropology and economics as forms of critical analysis of consumer society.

Gabriele Basilico (1944–2023) is considered one of the masters of contemporary photography. After graduating in architecture in 1973, he devoted his life to photography. The transformations of the contemporary landscape, the form and identity of the city and the metropolis all served as Basilico’s privileged fields of research.

Nina Bassoli is an architect, researcher and curator. She teaches at the Politecnico di Milano and has taught at the UTPL in Loja and at the Free Free University of Bolzano, where she held the research grant (AR) “Architecture in the Age of Display” from July 2019 to June 2021. Since 2008, she has been a member of the editorial staff of Lotus international.

Geoffrey Batchen is the Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford. His writing about art and photography has featured in numerous journals, books and exhibition catalogues and been translated into 21 languages.

Anne-Grit Becker is an art historian living in Berlin.

Mario Bellini is an architect and designer. He has received the Golden Compass Award eight times and twenty-five of his works are in the permanent design collection of the MoMA in New York, which held a retrospective of his work in 1987. He served as editor of Domus magazine (1985–1991). He has planned countless art, design and architecture exhibitions over the years, both in Italy and abroad.

Francesca Benedetto is the founder of Yellowoffice and a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Essayist and photography critic, Benigni has curated exhibitions and monographic books of some of the most important contemporary Italian photographers.

David Bennewith is a graphic designer who was born in New Zealand and is based in Amsterdam. Under the name Colophon, he carries out research and commissioned projects focused on type design and typography. He currently is the head of the graphic design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Peter Benson Miller is an independent art historian and curator based in Rome.

Francesca Berardi is an Italian multimedia freelance journalist and radio documentary producer. Her work has been published with TIME, The Guardian, PRI, WNYC, ProPublica, Slate, RAI Radio3, Internazionale, Domani and other US and Italian media.

Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930–2025) is considered one of the fathers of Italian photography. Raised in Venice, he began to devote himself to photography in the early 1950s, putting together a production of a monumental nature over the years. From the 1960s, he produced more than two hundred and fifty books, and his archive contains more than a million of negatives. His work has often been compared to that of Henri Cartier-Bresson for its lyricism and naturalistic approach to depicting reality.

Donatella Bernardi is a multidisciplinary artist working with installations, publications, video, essays and exhibition curatorship. Her interests cover issues of power, gender, post-colonialism, racial injustice and capitalism.

Francesca Bernasconi is a member of the scientific staff of the Museo d’Arte della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.

Luca Bertolo is a painter. He first studied computer science before graduating in painting. He has lived in São Paulo, London, Berlin, and Vienna. Since 2005, he has made his home in a mountain village in the Apuan Alps, and since 2015 he has been teaching painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

Neeraj Bhatia is an architect and urban designer from Toronto, Canada. His work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. He is also founder of ‘The Open Workshop’, a transcalar design-research office examining the negotiation between architecture and its territorial environment.

Vanni Bianconi is the founder and artistic director of the literature and translation festival Babel and one of the creators of the multilingual magazine Specimen. The Babel Review of Translations. His poems have been translated into twelve languages and published in books, journals, and anthologies. He has received the Schiller Prize, the Marazza Prize for his translation of W.H. Auden, and the Tirinnanzi Prize.

Maxime Bichon is a French artist. His practice reflects on landscape – both geographic and relational – through performance and installations.

Marco Biraghi teaches History of Contemporary Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. He is the author of numerous books and a co-founder of the website gizmoweb.org.

Pierre Bjork is a Swedish photographer.

Eddie Blake is an architect and academic. He is Director at Studio Weave and teaches architecture at the London School of Architecture. His architectural work focuses on cultural/civic buildings and the public realm. He has taught both architectural design and theory at the Royal College of Art, Bartlett (UCL) and the Architectural Association.

Gianluca Bocchi is a philosopher of science and history, specializing in biological and evolutionary sciences, global history, urban history, geopolitics, and the history of ideas, cultures, and languages. He is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Bergamo.

Frank Boehm is an architect and curator.

Kitti Bolognesi curates (with Giovanna Calvenzi) the Federico Patellani archive at the Museo Nazionale di Fotografia in Cinisello Balsamo.

Ilaria Bonacossa is an art critic and curator.

Laurence Bonvin is a Swiss artist who works with the media of photography and film. Her practice has a strong documentary approach and is dedicated to themes such as the transformation of the urban periphery, natural and cultural landscapes, segregation and the architecture of power.

Laura Borsi is the author of the historical appendix in Towards the Altar of a God Unknown – Liberian Notes, which assists readers in understanding the complexities of Liberian history.

Dario Borso (1949) is a lecturer, writer, and translator.

Stella Bottai is a contemporary art curator.

Maria Bottero is an architect and professor in Environmental Design at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1963 to 1974 she was editor of the magazine Zodiac.

Alberto Bougleux is an Italian film director. Since 2002 he has been developing social and art documentary film projects in Italy, Spain, Bosnia Herzegovina, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Greece, France, UK, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia, Mexico, Canada, United States. He lives in Barcelona since 2005.

Andrea Branzi was an Italian architect and designer. In 1966 he founded the Archizoom Associati studio together with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello and Massimo Morozzi. A professor at the faculty of Architecture in Palermo and Director of Studies at the Domus Academy, he later became full professor at the Politecnico di Milano and president of the Interior Design course at the same university. Director of Modo magazine from 1983 to 1987, he collaborated with leading architecture and design magazines. He won numerous awards, including the Compasso d’Oro Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.

Natalia Brizuela is Associate Professor in the departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at University of California, Berkeley, where she is also associated with the Programs in Critical Theory and in Gender and Women’s Studies. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil.

Vasco Brondi is an Italian singer-songwriter and writer, known for his project ‘Le luci della centrale elettrica’ before embarking on a solo career, releasing his latest album in 2024, Un segno di vita. He grew up between Ferrara and Emilia, and began his career in 2008 with his debut album Canzoni da spiaggia deturpata, which won the Targa Tenco award for best debut album.

Nils Bubandt is an anthropologist. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork on politics, witchcraft, and magic in Indonesia since 1991.

Tonda Budszus studied Integrated Design at the Köln International School of Design (KISD) with a focus on design theory and research. His work spans installation, print media, and moving images. He works at the Studio für Gestaltung in Köln.

Franco Buffoni (1948) is an Italian poet, essayist, and translator.

Nanna Debois Buhl is a Copenhagen-based visual artist whose practice draws connections across time periods and between micro and macro perspectives. Through studies spanning plants and particles, clouds and computer memory she connects scientific, aesthetic, and speculative perspectives to nurture attentiveness to materials and to tell counter-histories.

Interdisciplinary designer and researcher, Vera van der Burg’s work focuses on artificial intelligence and the way it can operate in the field of art and design.

Sergio Burgi is Head Curator of Photography at the Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro.

Doctor of Sciences in History, Amanulla Buriev is Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Christopher Burman is an urban technologist, artist, and co-founder of the collaborative design studio Heat Island.

Massimo Cacciari is Emeritus professor of Aesthetics at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He is one of the leading figures in European philosophical and political debate. He has devoted numerous essays to the idea of Europe.

Mario Calabresi is an Italian journalist and writer. He was editor-in-chief of the newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica before founding the podcast Chora Media in 2020.

Silvia Calamandrei is a translator and editor of literary and nonfiction works. Since 2007, she has served as President of the Piero Calamandrei Library and Archive.

Silvia Calderoni is an actress and performer. Ilenia Caleo is a performer, activist, and researcher. Calderoni and Caleo met in 2012 at the Teatro Valle Occupato in Motus’s Animale politico project and began a joint project.

From 1985 to 2019, Giovanna Calvenzi was photo editor for various Italian periodicals. She served as artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, guest curator of Photo España in Madrid, artistic delegate of the Mois de la Photo in Paris, and president of the Museo Nazionale di Fotografia di Cinisello Balsamo. Since 2013, she has overseen the Archivio Gabriele Basilico.

Italo Calvino, after finishing his studies and fighting with the Resistance in Liguria, graduated with a degree in Arts from Turin University. From 1947 to 1983 he worked in a variety of capacities for the Einaudi publishing house. He lived in Sanremo, Turin, Paris and, from 1980, Rome. A contributor to newspapers and magazines, he co-edited Il menabò di letteratura with Elio Vittorini. His works include: The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947; English trans. 1957), Ultimo viene il corvo (1949), The Cloven Count (1952; 1960), Italian Folktales (1956; 1980), The Baron in the Trees (1957; 1959), I racconti (1958), The Nonexistent Knight (1959; 1962), Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City (1963; 1983), Cosmicomics (1965; 1968), t zero (1967; 1969), Invisible Cities (1972; 1974), If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979; 1981), Mr. Palomar (1983; 1985), Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988).

Pier Paolo Calzolari is considered one of the most innovative figures in post-war Italian art. Initially starting out from the painting medium, he quickly moved towards more complex instruments of formal representation, including installations, sculptures and performances, and would soon become associated with the Arte Povera movement. His works are regularly exhibited around the world and can be found in various major contemporary art collections.

Matteo Campagnoli (Milan, Italy, 1970) is the author of the poetry collection In una notte fortunata (Casagrande 2010) and the play Dioniso a Tebe (2012), after Euripides’ Bacchae. He has edited and translated works by Nobel Prize-winning poets Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky for Adelphi publishing house, and worked with Derek Walcott at the Italian staging of the plays The Odyssey. A Stage Version (Ortigia Festival 2005), and Moon-Child (AAR 2011). His poetry, translations and essays have appeared in magazines and newspapers in Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain and the US. He is the artistic director of Babel. Festival di letteratura e traduzione, and among the founders of the online literary magazine Specimen. The Babel Review of Translations. He is the recipient of the Mario Luzi Prize for poetry and the Achille Marazza Prize for translation.

Rita Canarezza & Pier Paolo Coro live and work in San Marino. Their activity is characterized by a specific hybridization between research in anthropology, documentary languages, and performative practice.

Cecilia Canziani is an art historian and curator.

Mattia Capelletti is a writer and independent curator based in Turin. Interested in sound and the human voice, he has investigated its aesthetics and politics across different theories and disciplines.

Frida Carazzato is Research curator at Museion – Museum for contemporary art in Bolzano.

Emmanuela Carbé is a writer and researcher in literary criticism and comparative literature at the University of Siena, where she teaches Digital Humanities.

Lisetta Carmi (1924–2022) was ‘a wandering soul:’ concert pianist, traveller and founder of a meditation community in Apulia, she was also a freelance photographer who, in her works of documentation and social condemnation, anticipated a great deal of ‘real-life’ photography of the 1970s. Over recent years, major retrospectives of her work have been held, including that in Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.

Ivan Carozzi is the author of the TV programs Le invasioni barbariche, L’assedio, and Lessico famigliare. He was editor-in-chief of Linus and is the author of the books Figli delle stelle (Baldini e Castoldi, 2014), Teneri violenti (Einaudi Stile Libero, 2016), L’età della tigre (Il Saggiatore, 2019), Fine lavoro mai (Eris, 2022), and co-author with Enrico Deaglio of the first two volumes of the project C’era una volta in Italia (Feltrinelli, 2023/2024). He has written podcasts and audio documentaries for Radio 3 and Chora Media.

Louise E. Carver, PhD is a human geographer and political ecologist whose research investigates how governance, knowledge, politics, and technology shape the interactions between environment and society. Her transdisciplinary work addresses critical questions of value and valuation in the green and blue economy, with a particular focus on biodiversity.

Carlos Casas is a filmmaker and artist whose practice encompasses film, sound and the visual arts. His films have been screened and have won him awards at festivals around the world, such as the Venice Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Mexico International Film Festival, CPH DOX Copenhagen, FID Marseille.

Barbara Casavecchia is a writer, independent curator and educator. Based in Milan, she teaches at Brera art academy and works as chief editor at Mousse Magazine.

Daniele Caspar Gasparinetti is co-founder of Xing, a cultural organization based in Bologna, operating with the purpose of planning, supporting and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture.

Vincenzo Castella is among the best-known Italian landscape photographers. His work is bound up in the analysis of language, of existence and vision. His research includes images of Italian and European cities like Naples, Milan, Rouen, Caen, Le Havre, Helsinki and Berlin, as well as images of territories and sites like Ramallah and Jerusalem. His works have been displayed in galleries and museums in many countries around the world, and he has taken part in the Biennales of Art and Architecture of Venice on various occasions.

Alessandro Castiglioni is an Italian art historian and curator.

Luisa Castiglioni (1922–2015) was an architect and designer, putting her name to refined projects for interiors as well as both public and private buildings.

Francesco M. Cataluccio studied philosophy and then spent a long time wandering around Poland and Central Europe. He has curated the works of Witold Gombrowicz and Bruno Schulz. His books include: Immaturità. La malattia del nostro tempo (Einaudi, 2004; 2014); Vado a vedere se di là è meglio (Sellerio, 2010); Chernobyl (Sellerio, 2011); L’ambaradan delle quisquiglie (Sellerio, 2012); La memoria degli Uffizi (Sellerio, 2013); In occasione dell’epidemia (Casagrande, 2020). He contributes to Il Foglio, Il Post and doppiozero.

Andrea Cavalletti is an Italian author and professor. His research interests concern theoretical philosophy, political philosophy and the science of myth.

Carla Cerati (1926–2016), originally from Bergamo, moved to Milan in 1952. From the 1960s onward, she worked as a stage photographer while also devoting herself to reportage and portraiture. At the same time, she turned her gaze to the artistic and cultural milieu, later extending it to the various expressions of urban life. Among her books are Morire di classe (1969), a famous investigation into mental hospitals carried out with Gianni Berengo Gardin, and Mondo Cocktail (1974). She was also a distinguished writer.

Vincent Céraudo is a French artist born in Provence, France.

Vincent Céraudo is a French artist born in Provence, France.

Luca Cerizza is a curator, art critic and author. He lives in Turin and Mumbai.

Iain Michael Chambers is a British anthropologist, sociologist, and cultural studies scholar.

Tiane Doan na Champassak is a French visual artist of Asian origin. In the last years, he has developed a complex body of work infusing his own photographic production with techniques of appropriation, variation, re-use and repetition. Champassak subjects materials from the internet, personal memorabilia, vernacular photography and magazine cuttings to a large variety of processes linked to the conceptual arsenal of postmodernism, challenging themes such as sexuality, gender identity and censorship.

Clément Chéroux is a French photography historian and curator. He is Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Gäelle Choisne is a French artist.

Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein are full professors of architecture and design at ETH Zurich and the founding partners of the international practice Christ & Gantenbein. The academic studio focuses on the essence of architectural form and previously edited the two monographs Typology: Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires (2012) and Typology: Paris, Delhi, São Paulo, Athens (2015), which are rich sourcebooks on building typology in eight metropolises.

Maya Christodoulaki is an architect and external lecturer at the Institute of Architectural Theory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who was born in Nigeria, raised in Jamaica, and educated in the United States. He is a Professor of English at Boston University and holds the George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American and Black Diaspora Studies, a program he directed from 2017–2025. Chude-Sokei’s work includes The Last Darky (2006); The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2016) and Floating in a Most Peculiar Way (2021). He is Editor in Chief of The Black Scholar, one of the oldest and leading journals on Black Studies in the United States. Chude-Sokei is also founder of the international sonic art/archiving project, Echolocution, and a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival.

Maria Giovanna Cicciari graduated with a BD in History of Cultural Heritage and an MA in Cinema and Video at Accademia di Brera. Her work has been dedicated since today to the mediterranean landscape and its relationship with the north of Europe, especially in literature.

Pippo Ciorra, is an architect, critic and professor, member of the editorial board of Casabella (1996-2012), and author of many essays and publications.

Marco Ciriello is an Italian writer and journalist. He writes for Il Messaggero and Il Mattino. He directed the documentaries Ezra Pound, Poeta and Storia della Triennale di Milano.

Alessandra Ciucci is Assistant Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at Columbia University.

Civil Architecture is a cultural practice based between Bahrain and Kuwait. It was founded by Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi and is preoccupied with the making of buildings and books about them. The work of Civil Architecture asks what it means to produce architecture in a decidedly un-civil time, presenting a new civic character for a global condition and offers alternate futures for the Middle East.

Katrine Clante is an illustrator who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her graphic novels for young readers, Pssst! (2013) and Hjertestorm/Stormhjerte (2016), written by Annette Herzog, are published in Danish, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Italian editions, and have each received a number of national and international prizes.

Jace Clayton is an artist and writer based in New York, also known for his work as DJ/rupture.

Francesco Clemente is one of the leading contemporary Italian artists, among the protagonists of the Italian Transavanguardia – the movement theorised by Achille Bonito Oliva. His production draws extensively on symbols from both Western and Eastern traditions.

Fabiano Cocozza is a graphic designer and art director based in Milan.

Paolo Colagrande is a lawyer and writer. In 2007 he wins the Campiello Opera Prima prize with Fídeg, his first novel.

Umberto Coldagelli (1931–2022) was the leading Italian scholar of Tocqueville, and edited the Italian versions of Viaggio in America 1831–1832 (Feltrinelli, Milan 1990), Scritti, note e discorsi politici. 1839–1852 (Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 1994) and the complete edition of his Viaggi (Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 1997). His own books include Vita di Tocqueville (1805–1859). La democrazia tra storia e politica (Donzelli, Rome 2005).

Christopher Collins is a scholar of cognitive poetics, focusing on perception and memory in the act of reading. His major works include Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination (2013) and Neopoetics: The Evolution of the Literate Imagination (2016).

Curator and producer, Camilla Colombo focuses her practice on interdisciplinarity at the intersection of art and science. She is co-founder of Ohme and Saloon Brussels.

Emanuele Colombo is a freelance photographer based in Cremona, Italy.

Daniela Comani is an artist whose multimedia work explores history, gender, and identity. Her practice challenges stereotypes and interrogates the interpretation of language.

Cristina Comencini (1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer, and the daughter of director Luigi Comencini. Her films include Zoo (1988), I divertimenti della vita privata (1990), La fine è nota (1992), Va’ dove ti porta il cuore (1995), and Matrimoni (1998). Her 2005 film La bestia nel cuore (Don’t Tell) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Comencini is also the author and director of several plays, as well as numerous novels published by Einaudi and Feltrinelli.

Luigi Comencini (1916–2007) was one of the leading post-war Italian film directors. After a neorealist debut, he moved on to direct almost all kinds of movie genres. His many memorable works include Bread, Love and Dreams (1953), Everybody Go Home (1960) and The Scientific Cardplayer (1972). He also directed various highly successful television series: I bambini e noi (1970), Le avventure di Pinocchio (1972) and L’amore in Italia (1978). In his youth, spent in Milan, he was among the founders of the Cineteca Italiana.

Luisa Comencini is the Executive Director of the Cineteca Italiana in Milan. Founded in 1947 by Luigi Comencini and Alberto Lattuada, the Cineteca is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and promotion of films.

Andrea Cortellessa is an Italian literary critic and historian of literature, known for his essays on twentieth-century and contemporary poets and writers, as well as for his work as an editor and curator of publishing series. He is Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at Roma Tre University.

Maria de Fátima Costa is a professor in the History Department at the Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso (UFMT). She holds a PhD in History from the University of São Paulo (USP). Her research focuses on scientific expeditions, documentation, and historical cartography.

Alberto Crespi is a film critic, writer, and radio and television host. He has been active in the world of cinema since 1978, when he began working as a journalist for the daily newspaper l’Unità. Since 1995, he has co-hosted Hollywood Party on Rai Radio 3. He is the author of several books, including Quante strade (Arcana, 2013), Storia d’Italia in 15 film (Laterza, 2016), and Short Cuts (Laterza, 2022).

CRIPTA747 (Alexandro Tripodi, Elisa Troiano, Camilla Zennaro) is a non-profit visual art organisation founded in Turin in 2008.

Keren Cytter (born in Tel Aviv, lives and works between New York and Münster) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, soap operas, theatre, sculpture, drawing, fiction, zines, children’s books, self-help books, and the organization of festivals.

Valérie Da Costa is an art historian, art critic and curator specialized in Italian art of the second half of the 20th century.

Kamil Dalkir is an architect, educator, and researcher whose practice places a strong emphasis on the use of physical models, exploring their ability to capture and register complex narratives. Through model-making, moving images, and storytelling methodologies, Kamil uses these mediums as forms of evidence production, documenting and interrogating social, political and environmental realities. He holds a PhD and MA from the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art (London), where he has been an associate lecturer since 2016.

Brenda Danilowitz is an art historian and chief curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Amandine David is a researcher and co-founder of Hors Pistes, a nomadic residency program that initiates encounters between craftsmen and designers.

Enrico David (1966) is an Italian artist. He is known for working across a wide range of media, from drawing and painting to textiles and environmental installations. He has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the United States.

Mike Davies is a British architect. He was a founding partner of the Richard Rogers Partnership and is a senior partner in the firm’s current incarnation, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Louis De Belle is a photographer living and working in Milan. After graduating at Politecnico di Milano and Bauhaus–Universität Weimar, he moved to Berlin and started working with curators, designers and architects. Since then, he has maintained a practice between commissioned works and personal projects, producing photographs in series focused on a particular theme and usually publishing them in book form. Exhibitions, workshops and lectures about his work have been held in galleries, festivals and museums such as Triennale di Milano, KINDL Center for Contemporary Art Berlin, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Offprint at Paris Photo, The D&AD Awards, Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin, Milano Design Week, Malmö Fotobiennal, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Eindhoven Design Week, and The New York Photo Festival.

Vincenzo de Bellis is an art critic and independent curator. He is Art Chief Artistic Officer, Global Director of Art Basel Fairs.

Sara De Chiara is an Italian curator and writer.

Anna de Manincor is an artist, filmmaker, director, and lecturer in multimedia subjects within the visual arts. In 2000, together with Massimo Carozzi (sound designer) and Anna Rispoli (artist and director), she founded the collective ZIMMERFREI.

Filippo De Pieri is Professor of Architectural History at the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino. His research covers a plurality of geographical areas (Europe, East Asia, North America) and topics such as the history of early 19th-century planning, the history of 20th-century urban conservation, the history of collective housing, the environmental history of architecture.

Claudia De Venuto is a teacher and the author of a doctoral dissertation on Bruno Schacherl.

Nicolò Degiorgis is an Italian visual artist, publisher, photographer, and curator.

Hans Deichmann was a German entrepreneur and was married to Luisa Castiglioni. He was a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance. Events he would recount late in life, in the autobiographical volume Objects.

Angelo Del Boca (1925–2021) was an Italian writer, journalist and historian. He was the first Italian intellectual to denounce the atrocities by Italian troops in Libya and Ethiopia. In July 2014 Addis Abeba University awarded him an honoris causa degree in African History.

Nicola Del Roscio is president of the Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio and of the Cy Twombly Foundation in New York.

Maarten Delbeke is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich. His research and teaching focus on the history and theory of art and architecture in early modern Europe, on which he has lectured widely.

Viola Di Grado is the author of Settanta acrilico trenta lana (2011, winner of the Campiello Opera Prima Prize and the Rapallo Carige Opera Prima Prize). She lives in London, where she graduated in East Asian philosophies. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Alessandra Di Maio teaches English and African Literature at the University of Palermo, Italy.

Rä di Martino is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work delves into the interplay between reality and fiction, often highlighting the absurdity inherent in their representation. Working across film, video installation, photography, and archival research, she employs actors and props to dissect subjects ranging from human relationships and cinematographic traditions to the theater of war and the fabrication of history.

Elisa Di Nofa is a communication designer. She deals with research, processes and strategies in communication and service projects. She is concerned with the study of narrative modes and curatorial communication pathways, with a passion for publishing design, the world of culture and archives. She lives and works in Milan.

Manfredo di Robilant holds a Ph.D. in the history of modern architecture from the Polytechnic of Turin, where he is Associate Professor of Architectural Design. He was Research Associate for the 14th Venice architecture Biennale, directed by Rem Koolhaas. His research interests focus on the relationship between utility and symbol in architecture. He is founder and partner of the architecture studio DAR architettura, with Giovanni Durbiano and Alessandro Armando.

Corinne Diserens is a Swiss curator.

DJ Pery is an Italian DJ specializing in ethnic and world music.

Luca Doninelli is an Italian writer, journalist, and playwright.

Louis-Jacques Dorais is Canada’s foremost academic authority on the Inuit language.

dpr-barcelona is an architectural research practice founded by Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera, based in Barcelona.

Nathalie Du Pasquier has lived in Milan since 1979. She has worked as a designer (Memphis) and since 1987 painting has been her main activity. She regularly exhibits her work; recent solo exhibitions include those at Kunsthalle Vienna (2016), ICA Philadelphia (2017), Camden Arts Centre (2017), Macro Roma (2021).

Philippe Duboÿ is an architect, art historian and professor of the history of architecture and town planning in Paris. Back in 1976, he was Carlo Scarpa’s assistant; on the architect’s death he managed the archives with Massimo Giacometti.

Natalie Dupêcher is the Associate Curator of Modern Art at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas.

Claudia Durastanti is a writer and translator. Her debut novel, Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra (2010), won the Mondello Giovani Prize. Her books include Cleopatra Goes to Prison (2016, Eng. trans. 2020) and Strangers I Know (2019, Eng. trans. 2022). She also writes on literature and cultural criticism for various publications.

Victoria Easton is an architect, Partner of Christ & Gantenbein since 2023. She is also engaged in teaching, research and writing. From 2010 to 2015, Easton led the research project Typology at ETH Zürich, which resulted in two publications. In 2016, she curated the exhibition The Books of the Architecture of the City at the Istituto Svizzero Milano and the EPF Lausanne. As an author, she regularly contributes to various architectural magazines and monographs such as Documents on Raphael (2021). She was a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and on the jury of the Swiss Art Awards from 2017 to 2024.

Fredrik Ehlin is a writer and editor who lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He has mainly worked in collaborative publishing projects that derive their methods at the intersection between art, literature and philosophy. He is currently the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Shady Elbassuoni is associate professor of Computer Science at the American University of Beirut.

Haris Epaminonda is a Cypriot artist who has lived in Berlin. Her installations conjure up visual puzzles that suggest a multitude of meanings. Her language often tends to abstraction, evoking mysterious atmospheres that defy precise classification.

Vincenzo Estremo is a theorist of the moving image and Professor of Media Theory, Curating, and Phenomenology of the Moving Image at NABA in Milan.

Eva Fabbris is a curator and art historian, and since 2023 has been the Director of the Madre Museum.

Franco Farinelli is an Italian geographer. He was director of the department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna and president of the Association of Italian Geographers (Agei). He has taught at the Universities of Geneva, Los Angeles (UCLA), Berkeley, the Sorbonne and the Nordic Institute for Urban and Regional Planning in Stockholm. His books include: Geografia (Einaudi, 2003), Crisi della ragione cartografica (Einaudi, 2009) and Il paesaggio che ci riguarda (Touring, 2024).

Milovan Farronato lives and works in Milan and London. In 2019 he curated the Italian Pavilion at the 58th Biennale in Venice.

Ettore Favini creates site-specific works, developed through a growth process that makes them living organisms, never entirely finished: open-ended devices of vision in which the work partakes in life and the viewer becomes an active participant.

Ramak Fazel is an American photographer. After graduating in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, he specialised in photography at CalArts – the California Institute of the Arts. Since 1994 he has lived between New York, Los Angeles and Milan, where he works with leading design and architecture magazines such as Abitare and Domus.

Fulvio Ferrari is a curator, together with his son, Napoleone, of the Casa Museo Carlo Mollino in Turin.

Claudia Ferri lives in Milan, working as a freelancer in various areas of photography. Her work varies between portraiture – investigating the physiognomic change from puberty to adolescence – and contextual photography, analyzing the circumstances that change environments depending upon the people who live in them.

Lavinia Filippi is an Italian art historian and curator. Co-founder of Translocalia since 2014, she curated projects, exhibitions and public programmes in Italy, Pakistan and the United Kingdom.

Barbara Fiore is a researcher in anthropology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She has carried out visual anthropology research in Italy and among the Tuareg in the Niger Sahara, as well as ethnomedical and ethnopsychiatric studies in Mali with the Dogon. Her work focuses on symbolic systems and healing practices in the Arab-Muslim and African contexts.

Umberto Fiori is an Italian poet, writer, and musician.

Andrea Fjordside Pontoppidan is a writer and an editor. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and was a publisher at Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology from 2017 to 2024.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) stands among the very greatest of French writers. We might say he lived his entire life in Croisset, near Rouen, faithfully following the discipline of a wholly inner life, in a passionate quest for elevation and artistic creation. His outer life was somewhat lacking in events: a trip to Brittany (1847); a long journey to the Orient (1849–1851); a number of winter stays in Paris (from 1857); the love of a muse, Louise Colet (1846–1855); the death of his mother; the financial collapse of his niece, and the ensuing economic hardship. His biography is basically the story of his masterpieces. On returning from his Oriental travels in the company of Maxime Du Camp, he wrote Madame Bovary (1857), the novel that would make him famous and lead him to be tried for immorality: a trial which would come to an end with his absolution. In 1867, he returned once more to his youthful project of Sentimental Education (1869), a work that would mark the full maturity of his genius.

Hercule Florence was born in Nice in 1804, his family originating from the Principality of Monaco. The young Florence emigrated to Brazil in 1823, and in 1824 he took part as a draughtsman in the Langsdorff expedition to the Mato Grosso, commissioned by Tsar Alexander I. It was on this mission, riddled with uncertainties and dangers, that he discovered his potential as a scientist and brilliant inventor. After the end of the Langsdorff expedition in 1830, Florence settled down with his first wife Maria Angélica in the small town of São Carlos (today Campinas), where he started working in coffee production. Up until his death in 1879, Florence produced a series of scientific manuscripts and biographical diaries in which he analysed and detailed his research into the printing systems he had invented, such as polygraphy as well as photography, of which he is today considered a pioneer. He also produced a series of drawings documenting the agricultural activities to the North of Sao Paulo, leaving a major iconographic heritage behind him showing the systems used for the cultivation of coffee, at the time linked to slavery and deforestation.

Leila Florence is the great-granddaughter of Hercule Florence and custodian of part of his artistic archive.

Goffredo Fofi (1937–2025) was an essayist, critic, and activist, one of the most independent and influential voices in Italian culture. He collaborated with Danilo Dolci and took part in workers’ and students’ movements, always connecting his work to social issues. He founded and directed journals such as Quaderni piacentini, Ombre rosse, Linea d’ombra, Lo straniero, and Gli asini. Author of key essays and books, he shaped generations with his critical and independent thought.

Giorgio Fontana is a writer, screenwriter, and journalist. With Morte di un uomo felice (Sellerio) he won the 2014 Premio Campiello. He contributes to doppiozero, ilPost, minima&moralia, and other Italian and international publications; he has written scripts for Topolino and has been teaching writing for over fifteen years in schools, universities, and various cultural contexts. He lives in Milan.

Joan Fontcuberta is one of the most internationally renowned Catalan photographers. He is also a theoretician of the photographic image and photography editor, and has taken part in numerous events, debates and exhibitions of contemporary photography.

Fosbury Architecture (FA) is a collective founded in 2013 by Giacomo Ardesio, Alessandro Bonizzoni, Nicola Campri, Veronica Caprino and Claudia Mainardi. FA curated the Italian Pavilion at the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and has taken part in a number of architecture biennials and triennials, including that of Lisbon (2019), Versailles (2019), Chicago (2017) and Venice (2016). FA is the referent for Italy of HouseEurope!: a European initiative promoting the reuse and regeneration of the existing built heritage as an alternative to demolition, orienting the political and normative debate towards a more sustainable model of development.

Thomas Fouilleron, history PhD, is the director of the archive and library of the Palais Princier de Monaco, and associate scholar at the Centre de la Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (EA 1193 – Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis).

Marco Franciolli is Director of the Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano. Since 1989, he has curated over one hundred exhibitions and publications devoted to modern and contemporary art, photography, and architecture.

Raffaella Frascarelli, founder and Scientific Director of the Nomas Foundation in Rome, is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholar. Her research explores the relationship between ancient systems of thought and modernity.

Kelly Fraser (1993–2019) was a singer and songwriter from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. Fraser’s music is rooted in Inuit culture and politics, as in her song Fight for the Rights, which encouraged voters to turn out for the 2017 Land Claims referendum.

Linda Fregni Nagler is a visual artist working mainly with the photographic medium. She is a tenured professor of Photography at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, and teaches Photography: theories and techniques at the IULM University in Milan. Her practice weaves artistic production with scholarship and a collector’s sensibility.

Mia Fuller is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting professor at Stanford University with the seminar “Italy, France, and Postcolonialism”. She is a cultural anthropologist who in her studies on architecture and urban planning in the Italian colonies combines field and archival research.

Hamish Fulton began his career at the end of the 1960s, defining himself as a ‘walking artist’ in order to distinguish his work from the practices of Land Art which it had initially been likened to. His is an experiential art, one which feeds off the places visited on foot in natural settings (especially those of the mountainside) from Europe to South America, and from Tibet to Japan. Starting from the 1990s, a part of his work shifted towards a participatory dimension, finalised towards the sharing of the walking experience, and which has since also been applied and developed in urban contexts.

Chiara Fumai (1978–2017) was an Italian artist known for her performative and multi-media works featuring psychic abilities, anti-spectacle strategies and counterculture icons.

Lucy Gallun is Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Luca Galofaro is an associate professor at the University of Camerino. A founding member of IaN+ (1997–2015) and LGSMA, he is part of the CAMPO research collective. He co-curated the first and second Orléans Architecture Biennale at the Frac Centre – Val de Loire. Awarded the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture in 2006, he was shortlisted for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize (2010) and for the Aga Khan Award (2013). He has been a visiting professor at UCL, the Bartlett School of Architecture, the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, Confluence in Lyon, Cornell University in Rome, and Kent State University in Florence. He holds a master’s degree in Spatial Science from the International Space University, UAH Huntsville, USA. He is the author of four books in Bruno Zevi’s Universale d’Architettura series, and of Artscapes. Art as an Approach to Contemporary Landscape (Gustavo Gili, 2003), Aristide Antonas (Libria, 2014), An Atlas of Imagination (DAMDI, 2015), Manthey Kula (Libria, 2016), Marcher dans le rêve d’un autre (Les Presses du réel, 2017), Years of Solitude (Les Presses du réel, 2019), and Questo non è un manifesto (LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2022).

Francesco Garutti is a contemporary art and architecture curator, editor and writer.

Kersten Geers è architetto e cofondatore dello studio OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen.

Miles Gertler is an architect, artist, and educator, co-founder (with Igor Bragado) of the research studio Common Accounts (2016). Gertler explores the intersection of the body with online and physical spaces; among his best-known projects is Three Ordinary Funerals, presented at the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. He has taught at Cornell AAP and the University of Waterloo.

Ali Ghomashchi is an algorithms engineer developing novel algorithms for inferring contextual information about user behaviour using various data sensors of smartphones.

Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Sheida Ghomashchi works as an independent curator in Milan, Italy. She has been part of various projects including: co-curator of the ‘Dixit Algorizmi’ Exhibition, CCA, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; fellow at Floating University, Forensic Architecture Group, Berlin, Germany; curator of ‘Archive Alive!,’ the exhibition featuring Ramak Fazel, Kandovan, Pejman Foundation, Tehran, Iran; foreign editor for Tarikh Irani Magazine, Tehran, Iran; fellow of IdeasCity – Detroit, New Museum of New York, USA; researcher on the Urban Research programme, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany; artist in residence in Group Affinity, Slavs and Tatars project, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Germany.

Riccardo Giacconi is a visual artist and filmmaker. He teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston. He collaborates with the Rai Radio 3 program Tre Soldi, he co-founded the festival Helicotrema and the sound-storytelling studio Botafuego.

Yervant Gianikian (1942) and Angela Ricci Lucchi (1942–2018) were artistic collaborators until Ricci Lucchi’s passing. They began filmmaking in the 1970s, creating influential found-footage films examining the spectres of war, genocide and colonialism. Their films have been shown at international film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin and Rotterdam. Retrospectives of their films have been presented at Cinémathèque Française, Filmoteca Española, Cinemateca Portuguesa and Pacific Film Archive as well as in museums including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Their installations have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Contemporary Art Museum, Chicago; Hangar Bicocca, Milan; and Documenta 14, Kassel.

Davide Giannella is an independent curator. His research explores the relationships between the art world and other fields of the contemporary cultural landscape (cinema, architecture, design, food culture, and music) as well as the translation and adaptation of artistic projects and content across diverse contexts and platforms. He has curated exhibitions at public institutions including La Triennale Milano; Museo Marino Marini, Florence; PAC, Milan; and CRT, Milan.

Paolo Gioli (1942–2022) was one of the most original and experimental Italian artists of the late twentieth century. From the 1960s onwards he explored the genesis of images and the mechanisms of vision, making his first avant-garde film in 1969 and pioneering photographic practices such as pinhole, photo-finish, and the transfer of Polaroid emulsions onto diverse supports. From 1974 he took part in leading experimental cinema festivals and major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale. His works are held in the collections of major institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; MoMA, New York; the Minneapolis Institute of Art; the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome; and the Museo Nazionale di Fotografia, Cinisello Balsamo.

Amos Gitai is an Israeli film-maker and screenwriter. In his films – both documentary and fiction, Gitai has explored the history of the Middle East countries, including his own personal history, through such themes as homeland and exile, religion, social control and utopia. Between 1999 and 2017 eleven of his films participated in the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d’Or as well as The Venice International Film Festival for the Golden Lion award. He received several prestigious prizes, in particular the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno International Film Festival (2008), the Roberto Rossellini prize (2005), the Robert Bresson prize (2013), the Paradjanov prize (2014), and Légion d’Honneur (2017). His latest films are A Tramway in Jerusalem (2018), Letter to a Friend in Gaza (2019), Laila in Haifa (2020) and Why War? (2024). Major retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the MoMA and Lincoln Center in New York, and the British Film Institute in London.

Claudio Giunta teaches Italian Literature at Torino University and is a specialist in Medieval Literature. He has been a visiting professor in Chicago, Tokyo (Todai), Sydney and Rabat universities, as well as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence and the Warburg Institute in London. His latest books include Le alternative non esistono. La vita e le opere di Tommaso Labranca (Il Mulino, 2020); Ma se io volessi diventare una fascista intelligente? L’educazione civica, la scuola, l’Italia (Rizzoli, 2021). He contributes to the cultural supplement of Il Sole 24 ore, to Internazionale and Il Foglio.

Lorena Giuranna, art critic and historian. She teaches Contemporary Art Languages at the Accademia Aldo Galli in Como. She is the director of the Museo della Carale in Ivrea, a center specializing in artistic research dedicated to the relationship between art and language.

Lorenzo Giusti, curator and art historian, is director of the GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo.

Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) was a Martinican writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as one of most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. After having studied ethnography at the Musée de l’Homme, he developed his notion of Antillanité and creolisation.

Giorgio Gosetti is a critic, essayist, and journalist for Ansa. He is director of the Courmayeur Noir in Festival (which he founded in 1991) and General Delegate of ‘Venice Days’ at the Venice Film Festival. He teaches Organisation of film and audiovisual events at the DAMS in Bologna, is a member of the board of directors of Afic (Italian association of film festivals), and has published essays on: Marguerite Duras, Luigi Comencini, Alfred Hitchcock, Carlo di Carlo, Allan Dwan, Sydney Pollack. He directed the MystFest, Antenna Cinema, the Rome Film Festival. He was deputy director of the Venice Film Festival and Director of Italia Cinema for foreign promotion, since 2011 he is main programmer of the RIFF (Reykjavik Film Festival).

Stathis Gourgouris is a Greek American poet, essayist, translator, sound artist, and professor of classics, English, Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Stefano Graziani has always been interested in photography projects in book form, and he treads along the borders between photography, art and architecture. Among his latest publications: The Lives of Documents (CCA Montreal / König Books 2024), Mostra Fotografica (Quodlibet 2022), Picture Window Frame (a+m bookstore 2022) and Documents on Raphael (Mousse Publishing 2021).

Anouchka Grose è una psicoanalista lacaniana e scrittrice anglo-australiana. È membro del College of Psychoanalysts e del Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, dove tiene regolarmente lezioni. Scrive di psicoanalisi, attualità, arte e moda, e ha collaborato con The Guardian, Radio 4 e Resonance FM.

David Gruber is an American marine biologist, a Presidential Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences at Baruch College, City University of New York, and a National Geographic Explorer.

Antonio Grulli is an art critic and curator of the public art project Luci d’Artista in Turin. In 2024 he curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, and he is currently in charge of the study program at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.

Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a Brussels-based curator and researcher.

Michele Guerra is a former Professor of Film Theory at the University of Parma. He was the scientific coordinator of a ‘SIR’ project funded by MIUR (the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) on Italian film criticism in the 1940s and 1950s. He is Associate Editor of the film journal Fata Morgana. Since 2022, he has been serving as Mayor of Parma.

Paul Guian is a graphic designer at Études Studio, Paris.

Emanuele Guidi is a writer, curator and researcher based in Berlin.

Xiaolu Guo, a Chinese-born British writer, essayist, filmmaker, and poet, known for her novels, films, and memoirs that explore themes of cultural identity, migration, and the experience of living between different cultures.

Ayesha Hameed is an interdisciplinary artist based in London who works across film, sound, textiles, performance and poetry.

Steven N. Handel is a Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution Emeritus at Rutgers University. He studies the restoration of native plant communities, adding sustainable ecological services, biodiversity, and amenities to the landscape. He explores problems of urban and other heavily degraded lands.

Dehlia Hannah holds a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University with areas of specializations in philosophy of science and aesthetics. She is a curator and Associate Professor of Environmental Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

Jan Olaf Härter holds a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He is Associate Professor and head of the Atmospheric Complexity group at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Carlos Hawthorn is a music journalist living in London.

Ida Marie Hede is a writer, critic and educator. She holds an MRes in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and Goldsmiths College, London, and a degree from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in Copenhagen. She has published several books, most recently DER SOG (brotsuppe, 2023).

Carola Hein is Professor and Head, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning at TU Delft. She has published widely in the field of architectural, urban, and planning history, tying historical analysis to contemporary development. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on the global architecture of oil and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to investigate large-scale urban transformation in Hamburg between 1842 and 2008. Her current research interests include the transmission of architectural and urban ideas, focusing specifically on port cities.

Agnes Heller (1929–2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and essayist. A prominent representative of the Budapest School, her research—rooted in an anti-economistic and anthropological reading of Marxism—was primarily aimed at reconstructing an ethical horizon.

Stefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at MIT. His work explores how scientists in fields such as oceanography, biology, acoustics, and computer science define and theorize their objects of study – waves, life, sound, code – especially when these approach their conceptual limits.

Calla Henkel is an American writer, playwright, director, and artist based between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Other People’s Clothes, was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has staged plays at the Volksbühne Berlin and the Whitney Museum of American Art, while her collaborative work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She currently runs New Theater Hollywood in Los Angeles.

Carsten Höller is an artist known for applying scientific curiosity to explore human behavior, perception, and altered states of consciousness. Formerly trained as a scientist with a doctorate in agricultural science, he has created a ‘laboratory of doubt’ through works ranging from twisting slides to vision-altering goggles.

Michael Höpfner lives between Vienna and Berlin. His practice focuses on the experience of walking through deserted or sparsely inhabited areas – from Ukraine to China, from Kyrgyzstan to South Korea – a path that began as a physical and mental exploration of geographical space and evolved into a reflection on the concepts of reality and place.

Hoyte van Hoytema is a Dutch–Swedish cinematographer renowned for The Fighter (2010), Her (2013), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Oppenheimer (2023), for which he won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Otto Huber is an Italian plant collector and ecologist, renowned for his research in botany, phytogeography, and the conservation of the Neotropics. He has authored over one hundred publications, including most of the volumes of Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a naturalist, explorer, universal scholar, and cosmopolitan patron of science. Considered the first traveller of the Modern Age, his long journey through Latin America (1799–1804) was hailed as the ‘second scientific discovery’ of South America. Disciplines such as physical geography, climatology, ecology, and oceanography regard him as their founder. His late-life masterpiece, the five-volume Cosmos: Draft of a Physical Description of the World, remains unique in its comprehensive vision of nature.

Invernomuto is the name of the artistic duo established in 2003 by Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi; they are creators of a series of research projects structured in time and space, from which cycles of interconnected works derive. With a common theoretical basis, Invernomuto adopts an open and rhizomatic approach, developing various outputs that take the form of moving images, sounds, perfor- mance actions and editorial projects, as part of a practice defined by the use – as widespread as it is precise – of different media.

Hilario Isola is a visual artist primarily working with installation, drawing and sculpture. He graduated in Art History and Museology and his interests still span through art history, architecture and natural environments. He creates delicate, often visually subtle installations that respond directly to the context and exhibition spaces, the landscape or any particular environment. His works imply such diverse forms as living systems, objects, photographs, drawings and music.

Eva Jack is a social designer. Her research centres around the strange relations that connect humans and animals. Her work does not necessarily focus on the animal itself but instead on their representation, cultural meaning and shared social history with humans. She gives form to her research through immersive installations, short films and written works.

Kajri Jain is a lecturer and researcher. She deals with visual culture, and she is specifically interested in the study of the processes of production and the circulation of images at the intersection between religion, politics and corporate culture in India.

Baktash Sarang Javanbakht is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works between Paris and Tehran. With a focus on the human body and its connection to the habitat and the surroundings, his artworks make use of different mediums, such as drawing, architectural models, sculpture and most recently site-specific installation.

Francesco Jodice lives and works in Milan. After graduating in architecture, he devoted himself to artistic research through photography and video, exploring the relationship between urban landscapes and communities. Among his works are the trilogy Citytellers, Atlante, American Recordings, Rivoluzioni, and West, focused on geopolitics and the crisis of the West. He has exhibited at Tate Modern London, the Prado Madrid, and Castello di Rivoli, and has participated in documenta Kassel and the Venice Biennale. He teaches at NABA in Milan.

Julia was the design practice of Valerio Di Lucente, Erwan Lhuissier and Hugo Timm from 2008 to 2022. Based in London, Paris, and Rome, the studio collaborated with cultural institutions across Europe on projects ranging from print to digital and spatial design. As art director, Julia completed a five-year tenure with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, as well as a three-year stint with visual arts magazine Elephant. In parallel to its studio practice, Julia has lectured at a number of universities including the Royal College of art, Calarts and IUAV in Venice. In 2016 Julia was the recipient of the British Council’s Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship. This research focused on Bardi’s editorial work. The studio has been featured in international publications and exhibitions.

David Katz is an American author, journalist, and documentary producer based in London. A leading authority on reggae, dub, and dancehal, he wrote People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae.

Michel Kessler is an architect and filmmaker currently based in Zurich.

Hamed Khosravi is an architect, researcher, and educator, currently teaching at the Architectural Association. His research and projects focus on the history and theory of architecture and urban form in relation to territorial organizations and political decisions. His writings include Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The Work of Zoe Zenghelis (2022), Nazgol Ansarinia: Inquiries into the Present (2021), Gabriel Guevrekian: The Elusive Modernist (2020), Tehran: Life Within Walls (2017), among other titles.

Ibrahim Kombarji is an architect, design researcher and writer based in New York. His work examines the entanglements of architecture, art, ecology, and geopolitics.

Frans-Willem Korsten is working both at the department of Literary Studies at the University of Leiden, and at the Faculty of History and Arts at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair for Literature and Society since 2007 in the name of Stichting Letteren en samenleving Rotterdam.

Boris Kossoy is a Brazilian photographer, theoretician, and historian of photography, as well as an architect. A professor at the University of São Paulo’s School of Communications and Arts, he has developed a multifaceted career spanning academic, artistic, and institutional fields. His influential publications include the seminal Hercule Florence: A Descoberta Isolada da Fotografia no Brasil, translated into Spanish, German, French, and English.

Swedish designer Reed Kram is currently a researcher at Chalmers Medialab in Gothenburg, Sweden, and a teacher at Designskolen Kolding in Denmark.

Franco La Cecla is an Italian cultural anthropologist and architect. Born in Palermo, he has taught at several Italian and foreign universities, produced several documentaries and organised various exhibitions. In his work he explores the social impact of architecture, by investigating models of spatial organisation between localism and globalisation and, in particular, the thresholds and boundaries between cultures.

Filippo LaFleur has been a researcher and teacher at the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft since 2015. He is responsible for research within the Delta Urbanism Interdisciplinary Research Group, specifically within the framework of the Transitional Territories graduation studio and DIMI Delft Deltas Infrastructure and Mobility Initiative project, ‘NEXT / EXTREME – Constructed Natures.’ Prior to this, from 2015–17, he was principal investigator for the interdisciplinary project ‘Intelligent SubSurface.’ His interests lie at the intersection between landscape, urbanism, and ecology with regard to spatial and temporal transformations of both land and maritime landscapes. Through projects he investigates interrelations between natural processes, societal practices, and (geo-)political dynamics, with a strong emphasis on the agency of spatial interventions and on the role of representation and design as research instruments.

Vytautas Landsbergis is an art, music and culture historian who has long studied M. K. Čiurlionis. Landsbergis is also a Lithuanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union (1990), and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament, the Seimas.

Pablo Larios trained in Comparative Literature. He currently lives in Berlin, where he works as a freelance writer and art critic. His work has appeared internationally in various magazines, such as Frieze, Sleek and Kaleidoscope.

Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian writer and translator. He contributes to La Lettura, the cultural weekly supplement to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Rolling Stone, Domus, Internazionale and Il Sole 24 Ore. His published books include Ginnastica e Rivoluzione (2008), La cospirazione delle colombe (2011), Le perfezioni (2022), La chiave di Berlino (2023). In 2025 he was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Alberto Lattuada (1914–2005) was an Italian cinema director, screenplay writer and producer; an intellectual with an eclectic personality, fond of literature, art and photography. Over the course of his long career, he discovered many actresses, including Marina Berti, Carla Del Poggio, Jacqueline Sassard, Catherine Spaak and Clio Goldsmith. After the end of the war, he focused exclusively on cinema, as assistant director for Mario Soldati on Old-Fashioned World and as a screenplay writer. Among his films, largely based on works of literature, there are The Mill on the Po, taken from the novel by Riccardo Bacchelli, She-Wolf from the short story by Giovanni Verga, The Overcoat from the story by Gogol, which definitively marks his shift away from Neorealism, while his blockbusters, such as Tempest and La Steppa, are taken from his favourite authors, the Russians Pushkin and Chekov. In 1998, Lattuada left all his archive material to the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana in Milan, of which many years before he had laid the foundations together with Luigi Comencini and Mario Ferrari, saving a great number of old films from destruction.

Owen Laub is an art historian and curator, and a frequent collaborator of theater director and visual artist Robert Wilson.

Steven Lauritano is a historian of architecture and design whose research explores the reciprocal relationships between historiography and design practice. His work focuses on the hybrid methods of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architect-antiquarians, the persistence of antiquarian methodologies in contemporary design culture, and the global histories of architectural historiography from the seventeenth century to the present. He teaches at Leiden University, where he is a member of the Centre for the Arts in Society.

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output encompassed novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and literary criticism. His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His work explores issues of emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality, and instinct.

Architect and urban designer whose work explores infrastructure and logistics as cultural and spatial systems. He is the author of The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). His projects and writings have been featured in Cabinet, Public Culture, Places, and Harvard Design Magazine. LeCavalier is Associate Professor of Architecture at Cornell University, where he directs the Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design.

Thierry Thomas and Francis Melvin Lee work together at the Institute Hercule Florence for the Studies of the Brazilian XIX Century Society and Environment.

Wolfgang Lehrner is an artist based in Vienna, educated at the University of Applied Arts. Lehrner’s practice examines the specific character of cities and their interconnections, blending chance, observation, and movement to create cinematic portraits of contemporary urban life. His recent project World City explores the cosmopolitan image of the 21st century, tracing the local within the global.

Michel Leiris (1901–1990) was a poet, writer, ethnographer and friend of the greatest artists and writers of his day. In 1924 he took part in the Surrealist movement, though he would sever contact with it five years later. From 1930 he began to focus on writing, and from 1934 he worked as an ethnographer at the Musée de l’Homme, a profession which led him to undertake long journeys to Africa, the West Indies, China and Cuba. He was a member of the Collège de Sociologie, and in 1946 he became the editor of Les temps modernes. In 1952 he received the Prix des Critiques and in 1980 he refused the Grand Prix national des Lettres. Today L’Afrique fantôme has classic status today, being included in the Pléiade series. Among his books translated into English:Manhood (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Nights as Day, Days as Night (The Eridanos Library, 1987), The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat (Semiotexte/Smart Art, 2019), and The Rules of the Game (Paragon House, 1991).

Carlo Levi (1902–1975) was an Italian writer, painter, and anti-fascist. Among the most significant Italian authors of the twentieth century, he is best known for the novel Christ Stopped at Eboli, which made him one of the leading voices on the southern question in postwar Italy.

Corrado Levi (1936) graduated together with Carlo Mollino and was a university assistant to Franco Albini. An architect, artist and writer, he lives and works between Milan and Marrakech. He taught for many years at the Milan Polytechnic, and frequently exhibits his work both in Italy and abroad.

Salvatore Licitra is the curator of Gio Ponti’s photographic archive, of which he is a grandson. Since the 1990s, he has been committed to promoting the knowledge of Ponti’s work, creating the database Gio Ponti Archives.

Armin Linke is an artist working with photography and film. His work examines how humans (re)design and inhabit space and time, raising questions about collective design, responsibility, and the future. He is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK), guest professor at ISIA Urbino, and guest artist at CERN Geneva, with previous appointments at MIT, IUAV Venice, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, and residencies at the KHI Florence.

Andrea Lissoni, PhD is the Artistic Director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich since 2020. Formerly Senior Curator of International Art and Film at Tate Modern, London, and curator at Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2009–2013). He is co-founder of the independent artist collective Xing and co-director of the Netmage international festival in Bologna. In 2012, he co-founded Vdrome, an online screening program for artists and filmmakers, where he remains a curator.

Luca Lo Pinto is an independent curator and co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. From 2020 to 2024, he was artistic director of the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. From 2014 to 2019, he was a curator at the Kunsthalle Vienna.

Federico Lodoli lives and works in Paris. He is doing a PhD in Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Since 2006 he has produced documentaries for RAI. In 2012 he published the philosophical essay Spinoza e Nietzsche. Della potenza e le sue determinazioni for Ombre Corte publishing house. He made the documentary Fragment 53 in 2015 and Elegy of the Enemy in 2025, both with Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli.

Alessandro Lolli graduated in philosophy with a thesis on the philosophy of language, concerning Furio Jesi and right-wing culture. He contributes to cultural journals, such as il Tascabile, Not, Esquire Italia. He is the author of La guerra dei meme (Effequ, 2017).

Michele Lombardelli is a visual artist, musician and publisher. His artist’s books have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; Casa del Mantegna, Mantua; Musée Cantonal Des Beaux Arts, Lausanne; MA*GA Museum, Gallarate, and at the Milan Triennale. Together with the poet Paul Vangelisti, he directs the Magra Books series, dedicated to Californian poetry.

Claudia Losi is an artist and researcher. Her practice explores the relationships between humans and nature, travel, and exploration, connecting art and writing to foster new relationships within communities. She has exhibited in numerous venues in Italy and abroad, including La Triennale, Milan; MAMbo, Bologna; MAXXI, Rome; Royal Academy of Arts, London; IKON Gallery, Birmingham; and Stenersen Museum, Oslo.

Earl Lovelace is an award-winning Trinidadian novelist, journalist, and playwright, renowned for his vivid and dramatic fiction depicting the culture and life of the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

Marco Lupo was born in Heidelberg and lives in Turin. He’s part of the writers collective TerraNullius. In 2019 he won the Campiello Opera Prima prize with the book Hamburg, published by Il Saggiatore.

Mario Maffi is a scholar, essayist, and translator who taught Anglo-American Culture at the University of Milan for over forty years. His research and writing focus on urban, immigrant, and youth cultures, realist and naturalist literature, and cultural geographies.

Serena Maffioletti was a full professor of Architectural and Urban Composition at IUAV University of Venice. Author of numerous professional and research projects, her work focuses on the relationship with places and the traditions of the Modern, contemporary design and ancient heritage, the architecture of infrastructural landscapes, and urban reconstruction in former socialist countries. She has conducted extensive studies on the masters of twentieth-century Italian architecture and the work of BBPR, documented in exhibitions, publications, and conferences.

Valerio Magrelli is a poet, writer, translator and associate professor of French literature at Roma Tre University. He has published six books of poetry, brought together in the volume Le cavie (Einaudi, 2018); a pamphlet in verse, Il commissario Magrelli (Einaudi, 2018); as well as a cycle of four prose texts, which came to an end with Geologia di un padre (Einaudi, 2013). He is the author of Millennium poetry. Viaggio sentimentale nella poesia italiana (Mulino, 2015); Che cos’è la poesia? (Giunti, 2013); Magica e velenosa. Scrittori stranieri a Roma (Laterza, 2010); Il Sessantotto realizzato da Mediaset (Einaudi, 2011); Sopruso: istruzioni per l’uso (Einaudi, 2019); and Proust e Céline. La mente e l’odio (Einaudi, 2022).

Carlo Maiolini is a French artist, painter and designer.

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban designer, and Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), where she leads the laboratory RIOT. Most recently Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she taught studios and seminars, in 2021 she launched the initiative ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction’ interrogating current protocols of development and urging for a profound reform of planning disciplines to face the climate and social emergency.

Måns Månsson is an award-winning Swedish director and cinematographer educated at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm. His films include Mr Governor (Berlinale Forum), Roland Hassel (IFF Rotterdam), Stranded in Canton (Tribeca), The Yard (Berlinale Forum), and The Real Estate (Berlinale Competition). With artist Carsten Höller, he co-created the installation Fara Fara, presented at the 2015 Venice Art Biennale. Månsson has also directed episodes of acclaimed TV series such as Netflix’s Snabba Cash, SVT’s Dough, and Estonia for TV4, and recently worked as second unit director on HBO’s The Last of Us.

Antoine Marchand is Director of the Centre d’art Le Lait in Albi, France. From 2009 to 2018, he was in charge of exhibitions and publications at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, where he also curated the artistic and cultural programme, collaborating with both emerging and established artists.

Enzo Mari (1932–2020) was an Italian designer, graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His works ranged from design to painting, from graphics to gallery displays. He was both a teacher and a political activist. His works have been featured at the Venice Biennale, the Milan Triennale, the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, the MIC in Faenza, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome and the MoMA in New York. He was awarded the Golden Compass in 1986, a form of acknowledgement he had already been given in 1967 and 1979, as well as the International Design Center Prize in 1987 in New York. In 2008, the GAM in Turin dedicated a retrospective solo show to his work. Among his writings are Progetto e passione (2001), La valigia senza manico (2004), and 25 modi per piantare un chiodo (2011). In 2020, a major retrospective was dedicated to him at the Milan Triennale.

Michele Mari (born in Milan, 1955) is a philologist, poet, and writer. He teaches Italian Literature at the University of Milan and is a passionate reader of comics and pop culture. His works often explore childhood, memory, and literature as a substitute for life. Notable titles include Verderame (Grinzane Cavour Prize), Cento poesie d’amore a Ladyhawk (2007), Rosso Floyd (2010), Fantasmagonia (2012), Roderick Duddle (2014), Asterusher (2015, with Francesco Pernigo), Sogni (2017, with drawings by Gianfranco Baruchello), Leggenda privata (2017), and Locus desperatus (Einaudi, 2024).

Fabio Marino is an Assistant Professor in the History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano. He held a postdoctoral research fellowship at DABC, focusing on the history of architecture.

Susana Moreira Marques is a Portuguese writer and journalist. Her journalism has won several prizes, including the Prémio AMI – Jornalismo Contra a Indiferença and the 2012 UNESCO ‘Human Rights and Integration’ Journalism Award (Portugal).

Rafael Marquese is a Full Professor of History at the Universidade de São Paulo, where he has taught since 2003. A Research Fellow of CNPq and founding member of Lab-Mundi/USP, his work focuses on slavery, plantation economies, and global labor systems.

Antonio Marras is an Italian fashion designer. He was previously art director of the French maison Kenzo.

Allegra Martin is a photographer. She graduated in architecture from the IUAV University of Venice, where she studied photography with Guido Guidi. Her work has been exhibited in in Italy at the Triennale di Milano, MAXXI and MACRO in Rome, the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia and Viasaterna Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Linea di Confine per la Fotografia Contemporanea in Reggio Emilia, the Fondazione Francesco Fabbri in Treviso; and abroad at Die Photograpische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Galerie f5.6, Munich, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Copenhagen, the Istituto internazionale di Architettura i2A, Lugano, and Breadfield, Malmö.

Chus Martínez is Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel. She was expedition leader of ‘The Current’ (TBA21–Academy, 2018–2020) and Artistic Director of Ocean Space, Venice (2020–2022). At the IAGN, she leads the research project ‘The Gender’s Factor’, focused on the role of education in advancing gender equality in the arts. Formerly Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona, and El Museo del Barrio, New York, she was also Head of Department for dOCUMENTA(13) (2012) and Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Born in Spain, she continues to serve as Associate Curator of TBA21–Academy and Curator at Large at the Vuslat Foundation, Istanbul.

Vittoria Martini is an art historian (PhD) and independent researcher. She is a tutor at CAMPO, the course on curatorial studies and practices organized by the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation. Currently, her research focuses on how history, together with imagination, can inspire the reimaging of cultural institutions, where the social role of the arts serves as a true agent of cultural renewal. She is the author of numerous publications.

Giovanni Battista Martini, architect, deals with the archives of Florence Henri, Lisetta Carmi and the photographic works of César Domela. He collaborates as a curator with various museums and other institutions.

Francesco Marullo is an architect and educator. He holds a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from TU Delft. A founding member of the research collective ‘The City as a Project’, his work focuses on the relations between architecture, labor, and the space of production. Marullo is currently Assistant Professor at the UIC School of Architecture in Chicago and previously taught at TU Delft, Berlage Center, and Rotterdam Architecture Academy while collaborating with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the Urban Planning Department of RomaTre University, and DOGMA architects.

Elisabetta Masala specialises in Art History, having trained in Sardinia, Spain and Rome. Between 2018 and 2020, she served as assistant curator at the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Vatican Museums. Since 2021 she has been curator at MAN – Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro.

Gloria Maso is a French-American artist. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and the HEAD in Geneva, she is completing her studies at the Cergy. Her research takes the form of writing and public readings.

Gabriele Mastrigli is an architect and critic based in Rome. He teaches Architectural Theory and Design at the University of Camerino. He also taught Architectural Theory at Cornell University and at the Berlage Institute of Rotterdam. His articles and essays appear in il manifesto as well as in various magazines including Domus, Log and Lotus International.

Ania Mauruschat is an independent journalist, scholar, and radio artist who lives in Copenhagen and online with an academic background in literature and media studies and professional training as a news editor.

Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) was a poet, artist and filmmaker, founder of the New American Cinema Group and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives. His New York studio became a meeting place for artists and experimenters of all kinds, including Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, The Velvet Underground, and Salvador Dalí. His filmmaking was characterized by its documentary and autobiographical nature. Over his long life, he made around sixty films in a diaristic style, capturing quiet and intimate moments of everyday life.

Massimo Melotti, art critic and sociologist, studied creative and cultural processes and the relationship between art, new media and society since the 1980s. From 1990 to 2021 he was Chief Consultant at the Rivoli Castle Art Museum.

Simone Menegoi is an Italian independent art critic and curator. A former contributor to Corriere della Sera, he has written for various art and design magazines, including Mousse and Kaleidoscope, and contributed to Artforum. Since 2005, he has curated exhibitions for institutions such as the Museo Marino Marini in Florence, the David Roberts Art Foundation in London, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, La Triennale, Milan, and Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp. From 2019 to 2025, he was Artistic Director of Arte Fiera in Bologna.

Gili Merin, PhD, is an architect and photographer based in Vienna. She taught design and theory at the Royal College of Arts and the Architectural Association in London, and is currently an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology. Her work uses photography to explore the politics of sacred space and the interrelations between natural and artificial landscapes.

Matteo Meschiari is an Italian writer and anthropologist. Since 2015 he has served as an associate professor at Palermo University, where he teaches geography and anthropology of communication.

Han Meyer is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design at Delft University of Technology. His current research focuses on urban design in delta regions.

Pierre Michelon is a French artist who works between Lyon and Nantes. Like a careful explorer, Michelon makes his way into the territories forgotten by society, focusing on historical research and in particular on colonial history through various media: writings, films, installations and performance.

Markus Miessen is an architect, spatial designer, consultant and writer. Miessen studied at Glasgow School of Art (BArch), graduated from the Architectural Association in London with Honours (AADiplHons) and received a Master in Research degree from the London Consortium (MRes). He is a Full Professor in Design at the Academy of Design (HDK), University of Gothenburg, Sweden. At Studio Miessen, he oversees all projects as principal architect and director.

Nino Migliori is the doyen of Italian photographers. He began to work in the field of photography in 1948, oscillating between realist photography (Gente dell’Emilia, Gente del Sud, Gente del Nord) and his experimentation with new materials and languages, also thanks to his relationship with exponents of contemporary art at the time (such as Rotella, Vedova and Tancredi). In 1977, the CSAC in Parma staged the first major solo show of his work. In the 1980s, he adopted the Polaroid camera as his research tool, while over the following decade he grew closer to digital imagery. His works are to be found in major international collections, both public and private, including: MAMbo, Bologna; GAM, Turin; CSAC, Parma; Centro Pecci, Prato; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Calcografia Nazionale, Rome; MNAC, Barcelona; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Musée Réattu, Arles, and SFMoMA, San Francisco. In 2016, he founded the Fondazione Nino Migliori in Bologna.

Bernard Millet is a heritage conservator at the Museum of Marseilles. He has organised a great number of exhibitions at the Centre de la Vieille Charité and at the Cantini Museum of Marseilles. In 2000, together with Hubert Nyssen, Thierry Fabre, Bruno Etienne, Jean Claude Izzo and Emile Temime, he founded the magazine La Pensée de midi.

Filippo Minelli is a contemporary artist working internationally, analysing and researching landscape, politics and communication. In 2011, Minelli started to focus methodically on his native land, starting a participative performative process called ‘Padania Classics’ and then publishing the book Atlante dei Classici Padani (2015).

Brizia Minerva is a curator and art historian at the Museo Sigismondo Castromediano in Lecce, responsible for the museum’s art gallery, collections, and artist archives within the Polo Biblio-Museale of Lecce.

Abdullah Miniawy is an Egyptian writer, chanter, composer and actor, whose artistic work is an expression of religion, revolution and freedom. During the Arab Spring, he became a political figure of resistance after his poetry spread through Al Yarmouk (a refugee camp in Syria) as well as Tunisia and other countries. In 2017 he was forced to leave Egypt by the oppressive al-Sisi regime. In 2021 he was chosen by the European parliament in Strasbourg as one of three change-makers based in the Schengen area to present a French-Egyptian artist perspective on contemporary challenges at the European Youth Event, and was invited as one of thirty different speakers to the European summit ‘Europe takes part!’. In early 2022, he released his first collection of stories, Extinguishing The City of Lights.

Rebecca Moccia is an artist whose transdisciplinary practice investigates the materiality of perceptive and emotional states arising from specific social and spatial contexts. Her work has been exhibited and screened at institutions and events in Italy and abroad. In 2024, she represented Italy at the 15th Gwangju Biennale. Moccia is also an activist and founding member of AWI – Art Workers Italia.

Carlo Mollino (1905–1973) was a legendary figure in the world of twentieth-century Italian architecture. He coupled his skills as a designer, photographer, pilot and skier together with his professional work and university teaching. He was thus an eccentric character who put his name to various architectural masterpieces of the last century in Turin, his hometown. Of particular note are the headquarters of the Associazione Equestre (1937), the RAI Auditorium (1952) and the Teatro Regio (1965). A keen photographer and the author of several books on photographic technique and theory, after his death, a number of ‘private’ areas of interest came to light, such as his Polaroid images featuring erotic subjects, or his darkroom experiments.

Massimiliano Mollona is an anthropologist and film-maker. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Brazil and England, around themes of class, work, post-capitalism and decoloniality through a participatory methodology that combines anthropological analysis and artistic interventions. Mollona has taught Anthropology of Art and Political Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London and currently teaches at the Department of the Arts (DAR) at the University of Bologna. He was director of the Athens Biennial 2015–2017 ‘OMONOIA’; co-director of the Bergen Assembly, and he is a founding member of the Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI).

Antonio Monda is an Italian writer, art director and professor. He teaches at the New York University Film and Television Department, and contributes to several newspapers and magazines, such as La Repubblica, The Hollywood Reporter and RAI News 24.

Jonathan Monk is a British artist whose work replays and reinterprets key moments of Conceptual and Minimal art with wit and ingenuity. Using wall paintings, sculpture, photography, and other media, he reflects on art’s tendency to consume references while paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, and Lawrence Weiner. Solo exhibitions include Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2015), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2014), and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008). He has participated in the Venice Biennale (2003, 2009) and Whitney Biennial (2006), and received the Prix du Quartier Des Bains, Geneva, in 2012.

Paolo Monti (1908–1982) was one of the most important Italian photographers of the twentieth century. In 1948, in Venice, where he had moved to work as an industrial manager after the war, he founded the photography association La Gondola, which became the driving force behind a profound renewal of the Italian photographic language in post-war Italy. In 1953 he moved to Milan, where he definitively embraced photography professionally, working for the Triennale, architectural studios (BBPR, Gio Ponti, Albini and Scarpa), museums (Castello Sforzesco), publishers (Garzanti and Einaudi) and artists (Baj, Crippa, Dove, Fontana, Capogrossi and Pomodoro). He later focused on documenting the landscape, architecture and historical-artistic heritage, combining his intense professional activity—including criticism and curatorship—with major experimental production (photograms, chemigrams and color photography), engaging with key elements of contemporary artistic production.

Andrea Morbio graduated in Cultural Heritage Conservation with a thesis on puppet theater in the Brescia area. He subsequently trained in Anthropology at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on European folklore.

Liliana Moro lives and works in Milan. She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and in 1989 co-founded the Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi in Milan. Her practice, which includes sound, words, sculpture, objects, and performance, is characterized by a reduction to the essential, inviting the viewer into a sensitive and poetic experience beyond mere visibility. The political dimension of her work emerges in the way she engages the audience, for example by placing works on the floor, prompting viewers to bend down and engage more closely. She has participated in major solo and group exhibitions, including Documenta IX (Kassel), Aperto XLV Venice Biennale, Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Quadriennale di Roma, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), PS1 (New York), De Appel (Amsterdam), Triennale di Milano, MAXXI (Rome), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte (Rome), 58th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Galleria Emi Fontana (Milan), MUHKA (Antwerp), Fondazione A. Ratti (Como), Fondazione Zegna All’Aperto (Trivero), and Cubo Garutti / Museion (Bolzano).

Jordan Muckpah is a singer and songwriter who lives in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada.

Ugo Mulas (1928–1973) is considered the most important Italian photographer of the postwar period. He started taking photos of the ‘mythical’ Milan of bar Jamaica and became one of the most relevant Italian photojournalists, as well as an innovator of ‘industrial’ photography. His name is connected to the avant-garde art movements of the 1960s and the 1970s, becoming their supporter and interpreter. The Verifiche from his last years, a personal interpretation of the history of photography, close a short but hard-working life.

Enzo Muzii (1926–2014) was a director, writer and photographer. He was a key figure on the Roman cultural scene throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

Nationhood is a multidisciplinary studio founded by Achille Filipponi and Matteo Milaneschi whose goal is to generate new codes and languages in the field of cultural communication.

Maxwell Neely-Cohen is an author, artist, and member of the livecode.nyc collective.

Gabriele Neri is a historian of architecture and design, a curator and an architect. He is currently a researcher in History of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin.

Olaf Nicolai is a German conceptual artist whose interdisciplinary work includes sculpture, video, performance, and installations. His art explores the intersections of art, nature, science, politics, and culture, often drawing on diverse materials and references to philosophy, architecture, and history. His work has been shown at major international institutions, including Documenta and the Venice Biennale.

An experienced art and design curator, Paola Nicolin has led editorial, institutional, and event initiatives with a focus on excellence, sustainability, and local identities. Since 2019, she has served as Chief Curator at Aptitudeforthearts, a platform promoting female creativity through craft and artistic practice. She is also Artistic Director of XNL Piacenza (since 2022) and an Academic Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at Università Bocconi, with expertise in museum studies, cultural management, and exhibition-making.

Chiara Nuzzi is a curator and writer based in Italy. She is currently Curator and Editorial manager at Fondazione ICA Milano and Curator for the collection’s exhibitions at Fondazione Bonollo per l’Arte Contemporanea (Thiene, Italy).

Francesca Olivieri is a freelance architect. Since 2020, she has worked on design and project management for public and private clients, combining professional practice with ongoing research, which underpins her design approach.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a Dutch architecture firm based in Rotterdam, founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, together with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis.

Luigi Ontani is one of the most influential contemporary Italian artists. Through photographs, drawings, installations, performances, and tableaux vivants, Ontani has often portrayed himself as mythological, religious, or literary figures, exploring myths, symbols, and masks through experimental techniques. His work has been featured in major exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (1978, 1986, 1995).

Leoluca Orlando is an Italian politician and lawyer. He was Mayor of Palermo from 2012 to 2022.

Paolo Ossola is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist studying anhedonia and cognition in mood disorders.

Maria Pace Ottieri has written about Africa in Amore nero (1984), the issues of immigration in Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti (2003), family disputes in Abbandonami (2004), and the thousand faces of Naples in Il Vesuvio universale (2018).

Antonio Ottomanelli, architect and artist, has presented his work at major international festivals including Venice, Istanbul, Arles, and Berlin. He is the founder of the independent publisher Planar Books.

Design practice based in Columbus, Ohio founded by Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann.

Francesco Pacifico is the author of the novels The Story of My Purity (2013), Class (2017), and The Women I Love (2018). Founder of Treccani’s Il Tascabile, he writes for La Repubblica, n+1, Rivista Studio, Rolling Stones, and minimaetmoralia.

Francesco Paleari is an author who works with photography. He is interested in photographic publishing, devoting himself to both authorial and collaborative research projects in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape. As of 2019, he has been a lecturer on the Master course in Photography at Iuav University in Venice. He lives and works in Milan.

Palm Wine is a project by Simone Bertuzzi; started as a blog in 2009, it is a survey on post-global panorama with a specific eye for the movement of sounds and related imaginaries. Simone Bertuzzi is half of Invernomuto, operating in the fields of visual arts and cross-discipline practices since 2003.

Christodoulos Panayiotou lives and works between Limassol (Cyprus) and Paris. His multidisciplinary practice—spanning sculpture, painting, video, photography, and performance—explores hidden narratives within the visual traces of history. He represented Cyprus at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and took part in major international events such as Documenta 13 in Kassel. His work has been exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Kunsthalle Zürich; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Jelena Pančevac is an architect and writer. She is responsible for the academic and theoretical production of the architectural practice OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen.

Silvia Paoli, art and photography historian, has been head of the Civico Archivio Fotografico in Milan since 2001. She has curated exhibitions and taught history of photography in several Italian institutions. Her recent publications include Paolo Monti. Fotografia e astrazione (2022) and Ballo&Ballo. Fotografia e design a Milano: 1956–2005 (2025).

Graziano Papa (1919–2019), Ticinese intellectual and president of Pro Natura Ticino from 1970 to 2001, was a close friend of Ernesto Schick. In 2016 he published Le erbe della foce (Armando Dadò Editore). Consistently committed to defending the dignity, values, nature, and culture of Switzerland, he left a major legacy to the Canton of Ticino, forming the basis of the Graziano Papa Fund supporting education and culture.

Leonardo Passarelli is an art historian and journalist. He teaches Contemporary Art History at the University of Calabria and focuses primarily on Italian abstract painting of the 1930s.

Federico Patellani (1911–2000) was an Italian photographer. An eye-witness to Italian life thanks to photo series like Italia Magica, he produced many war reportages, such as the memorable series of images of Milan bombed in 1943 and the shots taken in Russia on the eastern front. In 1939, he began what was to be a long-standing collaboration with Tempo, the weekly magazine published by Alberto Mondadori, creating his fototesti (‘photo-texts’): major photo shoots featuring long captions written by Patellani himself. His link with cinema began with the production of the film Piccolo mondo antico by Mario Soldati, and continued in 1953 as assistant director to Alberto Lattuada on La Lupa. From the ancient European universities to the recently independent African states, from South America to the Islands of the Southern Seas, Patellani travelled the world on more than one occasion for his photo shoots with a decidedly journalistic nature, giving away precious little to the realm of folklore, published in Epoca, La Domenica del Corriere, Successo, Storia Illustrata, Atlante, Tempo, and numerous international magazines.

Matteo Pavesi is director general of the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana with which he began to collaborate in 1994, dealing with the Cinema Museum. From 1999 to 2018 he managed the screening theatre of the Spazio Oberdan. He took part in the drafting of the book Un secolo di cinema a Milano (1996).

Francesco Pecoraro, an architect and urban planner, is one of Italy’s most acclaimed writers. His novels include La vita in tempo di pace (2013), Lo stradone (2019), and Solo vera è l’estate (2023, Premio Mondello), all published by Ponte alle Grazie.

Nicola Pellegrini is an artist, curator and architect. Since 2002 he has collaborated with Ottonella Mocellin and has taught Performance Art at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo since 2009. His research, focused on identity, explores the boundaries between narrative and memory, personal and collective, through video, photography, installations, and performance. He has participated in and co-curated group projects including the ARC Group (London, 1988–1991), FA+ (Stockholm, 1994–1998), Oreste (1997–1999), and Autoprogettazione (2020). From 2019 to 2022 he served as artistic director of the Fondazione Galleria Milano.

Enrico Peressutti (1910–1999) grew up between Italy and Romania. In 1932, after graduating from Milan Polytechnic, he joined G. L. Banfi, L. Barbiano di Belgiojoso, and E. N. Rogers to form BBPR, an architectural firm already in contact with the Modern Movement in the 1930s. During WWII, Peressutti served on the Russian front before joining the Resistance. Banfi and Belgiojoso were sent to concentration camps in Austria; Rogers, of Jewish descent, took refuge in Switzerland. Banfi did not return, but his name remained in the studio’s acronym. Peressutti combined his professional activity with teaching experiences in Italy and abroad. His work as a photographer is documented in the volume Enrico Peressutti, Fotografie mediterranee, edited by Serena Maffioletti (Il Poligrafo, 2010).

Curator and art critic, Cristiana Perrella is the Director of the Macro-Museo d’arte contemporanea in Rome.

Diego Perrone lives and works between Milan and Asti. His poetics, rooted in the mystery of provincial and suburban life, explores rural landscapes and surreal visions populated by agricultural machinery, fish, and enigmatic forms. He took part in the 55th Venice Biennale (2013).

Gianni Pettena, architect, artist, and critic, is one of the original figures of Italian Radical Architecture alongside Archizoom, Superstudio, and UFO. Through works and texts such as L’anarchitetto and the performance Io sono la spia, he redefined the meaning of architecture by bringing it closer to Conceptual and American Land Art. As a critic and historian, he curated exhibitions including Radicals. Architettura e Design 1960–1975 (Venice Biennale, 1996), Archipelago (1999), and Radical Design (2004).

Isabella Pezzini is a full professor of Philosophy–Theory of Language and professor of Semiotics at the Department of Sociology and Communication, at the La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy.

Susan Philipsz lives and works in Berlin. Her work explores the psychological and sculptural dimensions of sound through recordings of her own voice and reworked musical compositions. Often site-specific, her installations engage with the architecture and memory of spaces, evoking emotion, introspection, and reflections on personal and collective memory. Winner of the 2010 Turner Prize, she has exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and documenta 13.

Cloe Piccoli is an art critic and curator, a tenured professor lecturing on Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, and a contributor to the culture pages of the daily newspaper La Repubblica.

Valeria Piccoli is Chair of the Arts of the Americas and Ken and Linda Cutler Curator of Latin American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. She was formerly the Chief Curator of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, one of the most esteemed art museums in South America.

Joanna Piotrowska is a Polish artist working with photography, video, and performance. Her work explores human relationships, power structures, and control through performative gestures and domestic settings. Notable series include Frowst, Frantic, and Enclosures. She lives and works between London and Warsaw.

Gian Piero Piretto is an Italian historian and translator. He has taught Russian literature and culture at the Universities of Bergamo, Parma, and Milan.

Max Pitegoff is an artist who has collaborated with Calla Henkel since 2011. Their work has been shown at Whitney Museum di New York, Kunsthalle Wien, Museum Morsbroich, Kunsthalle Bern, and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.

Luca Pitoni is a graphic designer and journalist. He is co-founder of the design studio Tomo Tomo. He edited the volume dedicated to Anita Klinz, Ostinata bellezza, published by Fondazione Mondadori (2022).

Matteo Poli is an architect, working as a researcher and professor of Landscape Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. He currently runs his architectural practice, AOUMM. From 2004 to 2007 he worked as an editor for the magazine Domus, and until 2014 as a special correspondent for Abitare.

Lisa Ponti (1922–2019) was an artist, editor, critic and writer. She spanned a number of moments of twentieth century culture, collaborating with artists of various generations, from Giorgio De Chirico to Enrico Castellani. After obtaining a degree in philosophy, she collaborated with her father Gio Ponti in various fields, such as the frescoes at Palazzo del Bo in Padua, as a member of the editorial staff of the magazine Stile (1941–1946); as editor-in-chief at Domus (1940–1979), editing the pages specifically dedicated to art until 1986. In the 1940s, she published the book of poems Gio Ponti agli amici (1941) and the book of fairy tales illustrated by Ettore Calvelli L’armadio magico (1946).

Bas Princen is an artist and photographer, living and working in Rotterdam. He was educated as an industrial designer at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and then studied architecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Since then, thanks to the use of photography, his work has been focussing on transforming the urban landscape by creating various forms, results and images of a changing urban space. Some of his latest exhibitions have been at Vitra Design Museum, Metropolitan (New York, USA), Solo Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery, Kroller Muller Museum, and La Biennale di Venezia. In 2004, he received The Charlotte Kohler award for promising young artists and architects in the Netherlands, and in 2010 at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia he was awarded the Silver Lion together with Kersten Geers David van Severen studio.

Anna Puigjaner Barberà is a PhD architect, researcher and co-founder of MAIO, an architectural office based in Barcelona and New York that works on open spatial systems that permit theoretical positions materialize. Her research is focused on alternative domesticities able to redefine gender biased structures. She is currently an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University.

Fabio Pupin is an Italian naturalist and photographer. He collaborates with MUSE, the Museum of Science in Trento, in the Tropical Biodiversity Department, carrying out herpetology research in East Africa.

Fabio Pusterla is a Swiss poet, translator and Italian language literary critic.

Ludovico Quaroni (1911–1987) was a key figure in twentieth-century Italian architecture and urban development. After graduating in architecture from Rome, he began to practise in the 1930s. During WWII, he was held prisoner for five years by the British in India. On his return in 1946, he was among the protagonists of post-war reconstruction, both theoretically – being close to Adriano Olivetti and his urbanist ideas – and in planning public building works in Italy. He was also a great teacher, training generations of architects and urban planners, a respected scholar, and the author of books such as La torre di Babele (1967), Progettare un edificio (1977), and Immagine di Roma (1969), the book dedicated to his hometown and the subject of the photographic campaign featured in this volume.

Letizia Ragaglia is an art historian and curator. She directs the Museion in Bolzano (2009–2020) and the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz (2021–2025). From 2026, she assumes the directorship of MASI in Lugano.

Franco Raggi is an Italian architect, designer, and professor. In 1973 he collaborated with Aldo Rossi in ordering the Architecture Section of the Milan Triennale. From 1977 to 1980 he served as editor-in-chief of the design magazine Modo, later becoming director from 1981 to 1983. From 1996 to 1998 he coordinated the Department of Architecture at the European Institute of Design in Milan, where he taught from 1989 to 2000. Since 2002 he has held the Interior Design course at ISIA in Florence.

Veronica Raimo is a writer and translator. Her novels include Il dolore secondo Matteo (minimum fax, 2007), Tutte le feste di domani (Rizzoli, 2013), Miden (Mondadori, 2018), and La vita è breve, eccetera (Einaudi, 2023). She wrote the screenplay for the film Dormant Beauty by Marco Bellocchio and has translated authors such as Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Octavia E. Butler. She contributes to various publications on literature, music, and cinema.

Cristiano Raimondi is an independent curator.

Filipa Ramos is a curator and writer. Her work explores the intersections between art, moving images, and ecology. She teaches on the Master’s programme at the Arts Institute of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel, and is the Artistic Director of the Loop Festival in Barcelona.

Dámaso Randulfe is an artist, architect, and editor of Migrant Journal.

Iolanda Ratti is a curator at the Museo del Novecento in Milan and a member of the Scientific Committee of the PAC – Pavilion of Contemporary Art.

Nuvola Ravera is an artist whose practice weaves together performative, pictorial, and environmental approaches, exploring the relationship between museum institutions, ecology, and the care of places.

Sara Raza is a contemporary art curator and writer based in New York City. She is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tashkent. Founder of the curatorial studio Punk Orientalism, specialised in global art and visual cultures, mainly from Central and Western Asia and its international diaspora.

Antonio Ricci is a television director and writer who created the satirical news program Striscia la Notizia in 1988.

Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza is a photographer and educator whose work examines the critical relationship between language and photographic practice. He is the founder of the independent publishing project Pneumatica.

Antonio Ricci is a television director and writer who created the satirical news program Striscia la Notizia in 1988.

Gianluigi Ricuperati is a writer and director of the Domus Academy in Milan. He contributes to la Repubblica, Rivista Studio, IL of Sole 24 Ore, and other Italian and international publications.

Marco Rinaldi teaches History of Contemporary Art and History of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. He is a scientific consultant for the Gastone Novelli Archive in Rome and co-author of the first volume of the artist’s general catalogue. He also curated the exhibition Il disegno della scrittura. I libri di Gastone Novelli at the Museo del Novecento in Milan (2012).

Anton Ripon is a geo-designer and architectural designer based in Brussels, specializing in 3D modeling, modular projects, and spatial analysis. He holds a Master’s degree in Geo-Design from DAE and a Bachelor’s in Spatial Design from Duperré, Paris.

Umberto Riva (1928–2021) was an architect and designer, among the masters of Italian architecture between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Márcia de Almeida Rizzutto is a faculty member in Nuclear Physics at the University of São Paulo.

Iris Rochet-Lanchet is a French artist who studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Lyon.

Antonio Rovaldi lives and works in Milan. His research explores the perception of landscape through photography, video, sculpture, and sound installation. Winner of the New York Prize (2006) and the Italian Art Prize (2018), he has exhibited at, among others, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, GAMeC in Bergamo, MAN in Nuoro, and the Harvard GSD. He teaches Urban and Territorial Design at the Politecnico delle Arti in Bergamo and is the founder of CLER, a program of exhibitions dedicated to photography in relation to sound and cinematic languages.

Angela Rui is a curator and design researcher based in Milan. A former designer, journalist, and PhD in Exhibition Design, Rui currently contributes – through mentoring, curating, and writing – to rethinking the role of design as a critical practice in support of eco-social renewal. She curated the exhibitions ITALY: A New Collective Landscape (ADI Design Museum, Milan 2023), AQUARIA. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea (Maat, Lisbon 2021); she co-curated I See That I See What You Not See, the Dutch participation for Broken Nature – XXII Milan Triennale (2019), and Faraway So Close – the 25th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana (2017).

Antonio Russo, architect and PhD, is a researcher at the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on the history of early modern architecture, with particular attention to the language of the orders and architectural drawing. He has published essays and monographs on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architecture, especially in the Roman and Lombard contexts, and has also investigated the dissemination and reception of sixteenth-century architectural treatises in Apulia and the Po Valley.

Hinrich Sachs is a visual artist and writer who lives in Basel, Switzerland, and works in an itinerant fashion. Reflecting on Western cultural frameworks, he tests, elaborates, and choreographs across different forms and formats. In addition to exhibiting internationally he has authored numerous texts and publications for general and specialized audiences.

Alberto Saibene is an editor, essayist, cultural historian, and film director. He is the author of numerous works, including Stories of Another Italy (Casagrande, 2023), Milan at the End of the Twentieth Century (Casagrande, 2021), The Most Beautiful Country in the World (Utet, 2019), and The Italy of Adriano Olivetti (Edizioni di Comunità, 2017, 2025). He directed the film The Girl Carla (2015), based on Elio Pagliarani’s poem of the same name. He contributes to the journals Doppiozero and Lo Straniero and has produced documentaries and cultural programs for television and radio.

Carlo Sala is an art critic, curator, and lecturer in the IUAV Master in Photography in Venice.

Ayesha Saldanha is an independent researcher, writer, and Arabic translator.

Alberto Salvadori is an art critic and curator. Director and founder of Fondazione ICA Milano, he previously directed the Museo Marino Marini in Florence and served as a section curator for MIART, Milan. Since 2021, he has been the director of the Mulas Archive and oversees the section dedicated to historical 20th-century art at Arte Fiera Bologna.

Marco Sammicheli is the curator for design, fashion, and craftsmanship at Triennale Milano and the director of the Museo del Design Italiano.

Guillaume de Sardes is a French writer, photographer, art historian and curator.

Graziano Savà is an Italian linguist specialised in the minority and endangered languages of Ethiopia. He documents and describes languages on the basis of his own fieldwork data.

Lele Saveri is an Italian photographer, teacher and co-founder of the NY-based radical art, publishing and multimedia collective 8-Ball Community. Saveri’s work has been displayed in institutions around the world including MoMA, NY, FOAM, Amsterdam, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, and La Triennale, Milan.

Giuliano Scabia (1935‑2021) was one of Italy’s leading poets and playwrights, a singular figure in the national literary landscape, who developed a concept of theatre beyond the traditional stage.

Nicola Scaldaferri teaches Ethnomusicology at the University of Milan, where he is head of LEAV (Laboratory of Ethnomusicology and Visual Anthropology). His research interests include musical practices in Southern Italy, Balkanic epic songs, instruments from West Africa, and the intersections of music, technology, and compositional practice.

Manuel Scano Larrazàbal is an artist who lives and works in Padua. His research explores the relationships and tensions between elements, through drawings and self-propelled machines activated by fan-generated interferences. His practice, closely linked to electronic music, unfolds as an improvisation in constant motion.

Maddalena Scarzella is head of the Sozzani Foundation in Milan and since 2015 Exhibition Manager of the 10 Corso Como Galleries.

Igiaba Scego is an Italian writer and researcher of Somali origin. She focuses on colonialism, postcolonialism, and racism. Among her novels: Oltre Babilonia (Donzelli, 2008), Adua (Giunti, 2015), La mia casa è dove sono (Rizzoli, 2010; Mondello Prize), La linea del colore. Il Grand Tour di Lafanu Brown (Bompiani, 2020; Naples Prize), and Cassandra a Mogadiscio (Bompiani, 2023). She has written children’s books, including Prestami le ali. Storia di Clara la Rinoceronte (Rrose Sélavy, 2017) and Figli dello stesso cielo. Il razzismo e il colonialismo raccontati ai ragazzi (Piemme, 2021), and has edited anthologies such as Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi (effequ, 2019) and Africana. Raccontare il Continente al di là degli stereotipi (Feltrinelli, 2021, with Chiara Piaggio). She contributes to Italian and international journals and newspapers, including Internazionale, l’Espresso, The Guardian, Le Monde, Il Manifesto, la Repubblica, and Folha de São Paulo. Her works have been translated into numerous languages.

Bruno Schacherl (1920–2015), an exponent of Florentine anti-fascism, coupled his work as a journalist with that of translator. Among the authors he translated were various works by Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Charles de Brosses and Marcel Proust.

Ernesto Schick was a freight forwarder at the cargo station of Chiasso, a keen amateur botanist and drawer, known for having studied the flora to be found on the grounds of the shunting yard.

Mario Schifano (1934–1998) was one of the most important Italian painters of the second half of the twentieth century. Associated with the Scuola di Roma and Pop Art, he was a figurative, eclectic, and multimedia artist, active in painting, cinema, and video. Central to his work was his relationship with the United States, where in 1962 he met Frank O’Hara, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and Gregory Corso. He created several experimental films, including Satellite (1968), Umano non umano (1969), and Trapianto, consunzione e morte di Franco Brocani (1969). His works have been exhibited in various editions of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1981), and in the exhibition Arte italiana nel XX secolo (1989) at the Royal Academy in London.

Nicola Schoenenberger is the director at the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of Geneva.

Ferdinando Scianna is an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Born and raised in a small town in rural Sicily, Bagheria, he started developing a passion for photography in the 1960s, recounting the culture and traditions of his home region through images. In 1965, he published Feste religiose in Sicilia, with texts and a preface by Leonardo Sciascia. The book won the prestigious Nadar Prize in 1966, kicking off his brilliant career. He was the first Italian photographer to join the international photo agency Magnum Photos in 1982.

Didier Semin is an art historian and critic. He taught Art History at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris (1999‑2020) and has been a curator at the Musée des Sables-d’Olonne, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Centre Pompidou.

Mario Sesti is a director, journalist, and film critic. Author of numerous essays and documentaries, he has collaborated for many years with L’Espresso and has served as director of the Taormina Film Fest, as well as one of the creators and curators of the Rome Film Festival.

Aradhana Seth is a filmmaker, artist, and photographer. Her works have been exhibited in India’s leading galleries. She has worked as a set designer on over fifteen feature films (The Darjeeling Limited, London Has Fallen, The Bourne Supremacy) and directed documentaries such as DAM/AGE and A Film with Arundhati Roy. Her work explores the visual language of everyday life and local cultural expressions, collaborating with Indian artists on film sets and in art galleries.

Salvatore Settis is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. He has been the director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, and is currently chairman of the Louvre Museum’s Scientific Council. Among his books on archaeology, heritage, and landscape in Italy are Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili (2017) and Paesaggio Costituzione cemento. La battaglia per l’ambiente contro il degrado civile (2019), both published by Einaudi.

Roo Shamim is a UX Researcher, Systems Designer, and Spatial Experience & Product Strategist based in New York City, specializing in community-centered design, UX-led products, digital media systems, and Experience architecture (XA).

Barbara Signer is an artist who lives and works between Zurich, Basel, and St. Gallen. She studied Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich and has spent extended periods in Japan and China. Her artistic residencies include Beijing, Los Angeles, Joshua Tree, Kunming, Tokyo, Nakanojo, Paris, and Rome.

Roman Signer is a Swiss artist known for his ‘time sculptures’ that expand the concept of sculpture to include process and time. Using everyday objects and natural forces such as water, wind, or gunpowder, he creates installations and actions exploring transformation, causality, and movement. Signer has participated in major international exhibitions, including Documenta 8, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Shanghai Biennial, and represented Switzerland at the 48th Venice Biennale.

Gabriele Silli is an artist based in Rome. He earned a degree in Philosophy from the University of Rome La Sapienza with a dissertation on Lucretius’ theory of simulacra. His practice, rooted in painting, extends to sculpture and performance, exploring the concept of variation through the obsessive reuse of subjects, images, materials, and formal processes. In 2004, he co-founded the ‘Mastequoia’ art group with Giacomo Sponzilli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli.

Giovanna Silva (Milan, 1980) is an editor, artist, and photographer. She lives and works in Milan. Her photographic books, published by Mousse, Hatje Cantz, and Nero among others, have been exhibited at the 10th and 14th Venice Architecture Biennales, MACRO in Rome, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, the Triennale in Milan, the American Academy in Rome, FRAC Orléans, c/o Berlin, the 2019 Rabat Biennale, and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Humboldt Books and the co-founder of San Rocco magazine. She teaches Photography at NABA Milan.

Delfino Sisto Legnani is an Italian photographer. With a degree in architecture, he collaborates with various international magazines and institutions. His work has been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions, including at the Venice Biennale, the Milan Triennale and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Michele Smargiassi is an Italian journalist. After graduating in Contemporary History from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the history of photography, in 1982 he joined L’Unità, before moving to La Repubblica in 1989, where he also writes the blog Fotocrazia.

Noam Youngrak Son is an interdisciplinary queer designer based in Ghent and Eindhoven.

A freelance research-led industrial designer, Alessandro Celli is based between The Netherlands and Italy.

Ilaria Speri is director at Wonder Cabinet, Bethlehem, Palestine.

Giacomo Sponzilli is an architect based in Rome and Tokyo. After a formal training in Architecture in Rome and the Netherlands (TU Delft), he collaborated with the artist collective Atelier Van Lieshout. He is a researcher in Architecture at the Kengo Kuma Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. His artistic research revolves around performative methods able to synthesize several layers of action into works of sculpture, film, print, performance, installation, and landwork. In 2004 he founded with Gabriele Silli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli the ‘Mastequoia’ art group.

Alessandra Spranzi is an artist who has been active since the early 1990s. She studied at the Scuola Politecnica di Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, where she currently teaches Photography. Her practice revolves around photography and photographic staging, reusing and manipulating images, collage, and photographs of photographs. Through everyday objects, humble materials, and simple gestures, she poetically explores the mystery of existence and the forces that shape our relationship with the things and spaces around us.

Giulio Squillacciotti is an artist and filmmaker. He studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome before obtaining a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV in Venice. He was a Fellow Resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht where he developed a project on the fictitious end of Europe and the loss of the shared identity of a political project. He recently received MEDIA Creative Europe and Screen Ireland funds to develop a fiction film co-produced by Italy, Ireland and Poland.

Susanne Stacher is a journalist, professor and architecture critic. She teaches architectural theory and practice at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles. She won the Clemens Holzmeister architecture prize (Vienna) and has participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2007 she founded the architecture group OP.4 together with Guy Conand, Fabrizio Fiorentino and Laura Giovannetti.

Elena Stancanelli is a writer and journalist. She made her debut with the novel Benzina (1998, Giuseppe Berto Prize) and is the author of La femmina nuda (2016, finalist for the Premio Strega), Venne alla spiaggia un assassino (2019), and Il tuffatore (2022), all published by La nave di Teseo. She contributes to la Repubblica, La Stampa, and Rai Radio 3, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film Le sorelle Macaluso with Emma Dante and Giorgio Vasta.

Simon Starling is a British artist known for his multimedia works – including film, installation, and photography – that explore the journey and transformation of objects, materials, and ideas. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and won the Turner Prize in 2005. His practice often investigates an object’s history and context, reconfiguring it to reveal its “essence” and its connections to global economic and environmental issues.

Stendhal is the pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, the greatest French writer of the Romantic period. His masterpieces, never out of print, include novels (The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Lucien Leuwen, to name the best-known ones) along with chronicles, diaries, and travel books. His bond with Italy, which began at the end of the Napoleonic era, continued throughout the rest of his life.

Robert Storr is an American curator, critic, painter, and art historian. He served as Senior Curator in the Painting and Sculpture Department at MoMA in New York for over a decade and was artistic director of the 2007 Venice Biennale. He has been Dean of the Yale University School of Art and has taught at various universities.

Elisa Strinna is an Italian artist. She graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and completed her studies in Production and Planning of Visual Arts at IUAV, Venice. Her work focuses on sound and installation, exploring how we structure perception and knowledge.

Patrik Strömdahl is a Swedish sound engineer and sound designer with a long career in the film industry. Active since the 1980s, he has worked on over 120 film and television productions. His studio is based in Västerljung, where he produces much of his work.

Anna Della Subin is a writer and contributing editor for the Middle East arts & culture magazine Bidoun. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The TLS, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian Long Read, Frieze, Granta, and The Paris Review. She studied Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the History of Religions at Harvard Divinity School.

Founded in 2005 by Guia Del Favero and Francesco Cardarelli, Suite-case is a platform for diverse projects that explore image, sound, and the spaces that contain and traverse them.

Maan Abu Taleb is the founding editor of the influential Arabic-language online music magazine Ma3azef, and more recently of a radio station. Abu Taleb’s debut novel, All the Battles (2016), was published in Arabic to critical and popular acclaim and was subsequently translated into English by Robin Moger (2017). He teaches Narrative Essay Writing at the Counter Academy for Arab Journalism.

Pier Paolo Tamburelli is Professor and Head of the Research Unit at the TU Wien. He studied architecture at the University of Genoa and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. In 2004, he co-founded the studio baukuh. He has taught at the Berlage Institute, Harvard GSD, UIC Chicago, and Politecnico di Milano. He was one of the founding editors of the architecture magazine San Rocco and in 2018 served on the jury of the XVI International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Padre Jean Michel de Tarragon manages the photography collection of the École Biblique in Jerusalem.

Lóránt Tavasszy has been Professor of Freight and Logistics at TU Delft since 2016. After studying civil engineering at the same university, he began teaching there in 2009 while also serving as Principal Scientist at TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research). Previously, he was Professor of Freight Transport and Spatial Development at Radboud University (2004–2009). His research focuses on freight transport and logistics modeling.

Pier Luigi Tazzi (1941–2021) was an internationally renowned Italian critic and curator. A key figure at the 43rd Venice Art Biennale, he was also one of the curators of the documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, directed by Jan Hoet. He taught at the University of Florence, Goldsmiths College in London, and the Universities of Stockholm and Kassel. He contributed to Italian and international journals such as Ottagono, Casabella, Wolkenkratzer, Artforum, and Museumjournaal, and from 1998 served as president of the Lanfranco Baldi Foundation.

Nadia Terranova is a writer born in Messina and based in Rome. She is the author of the novels Gli anni al contrario (Einaudi, 2015), Addio fantasmi (Einaudi, 2018, finalist for the 2019 Premio Strega), and Trema la notte (Einaudi, 2022), as well as several children’s books, including Aladino (Orecchio Acerbo, 2020, illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti), Il segreto (Mondadori, 2021, illustrated by Mara Cerri, Andersen Prize 2022; Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi 2022), Il cortile delle sette fate (Guanda, 2022, illustrated by Simona Mulazzani), Il mare dappertutto (Emme Edizioni, 2023, illustrated by Serena Mabilia), and Scintilla (Mondadori, 2024, illustrated by Mariachiara Di Giorgio). Her works have been translated worldwide.

Matteo Terzaghi is a Swiss writer and editor. After studying philosophy in Geneva, he began working with Edizioni Casagrande, where he is responsible for art catalogues. He is the author of Ufficio proiezioni luminose (Quodlibet, 2013, Swiss Literature Prize), La Terra e il suo satellite (Quodlibet, 2019, finalist for the Premio Dessì), and Il manuale del fosforo e dei fiammiferi (Quodlibet, 2024), translated into several languages. He has also published works in collaboration with artists and photographers, including The Tower Bridge e altri racconti fotografici (with Marco Zürcher, Edizioni Periferia, 2009) and Pensieri e fantasticherie su un paesaggio di Markus Raetz (Edizioni Periferia, 2021).

Paul Thek (1933–1988) was one of the leading figures in the history of contemporary art, active both in the United States and Europe, where he created works using a wide variety of different languages, mixing literature, religion and theatre. His work may be found today in numerous museum collections, such as that of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Centre George Pompidou, Paris.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was born into an aristocratic family and grew up in an era of great change. After graduating in law, he undertook a trip to Italy (1827). When power passed from the Bourbons to the Orléans (1830), the young man went through a moment of crisis, torn between his loyalty to the old regime and his interest in the more open ideas of Louis Philippe. Hence the idea of a trip to America (1831–32) to overcome his uncertainties, followed by two trips to England and one to Switzerland. His journeys were thus study trips, embarked upon with a view to verifying the functioning of democratic institutions in situ. At the end of the 1830s, he became involved in politics and in the main French cultural institutions. After the revolution of 1848, during the period of the Second Republic, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs for about a year, but the rise of Napoleon III forced him into private life and poor health led to his untimely death. Considered one of the most influential political thinkers of all time thanks to Democracy in America (1835), he also proved to be a great historian with his unfinished work L’ancien Régime et la révolution. His travel writings, published posthumously, demonstrate his unique powers of observation and the temperament of a great writer.

Luís Felipe Toledo and Carlos Barros de Araújo are biologists and researchers specializing in acoustic communication and animal behavior. Toledo is Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), curator of the Museum of Biological Diversity and of the Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard (FNJV), with research focusing on the evolution of communication, behavioral biology, and amphibian conservation. Barros de Araújo is a researcher at the Institute of Subtropical Biology (CONICET, Argentina), where he conducts studies at the interface of acoustics and ecology, working with various biological groups including birds, amphibians, mammals, and fish.

Vera Tollmann is a German scholar and writer. Her research focuses on the practice and theory of the Internet and digital culture. She is a member of the doctoral program ‘Aesthetics of the Virtual’ at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg.

David Toop is a composer, author and curator based in London, working in many fields of sound art and music since the late 1960s. He has published numerous books, including Ocean of Sound, Sinister Resonance, Into the Maelstrom (shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize), an autobiography, Flutter Echo, and Inflamed Invisible, a collection of essays on art and sound. Since his first album, released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975, he has released fifteen solo records, including Screen Ceremonies, Black Chamber, Sound Body and Entities Inertias Faint Beings.

Massimo Torrigiani is a publisher, curator, and art director. He has organized exhibitions, concerts, conferences, and cultural projects for public and private institutions, directing international initiatives such as the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair and the Art In The City Shanghai festival. Since 2023 he leads the cultural agenda of the Italian Buddhist Union.

Alberto Toscano teaches at the School of Communications, Simon Fraser University, and co-directs the Center for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has sat on the editorial board of Historical Materialism, and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books.

Maria Chiara Tosi is Full Professor at the Department of Architecture and Arts at IUAV University of Venice. She serves on the Academic Council of the International University of Venice and has directed the IUAV Doctoral School since 2021. From 2015 to 2018, she was Vice President of VEGA Venice Gateway for Science and Technology, and in 2018 she curated the Venice Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Alessandro Toti is a historian of architecture trained in Rome and London. He holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism from the Bartlett, University College London. His research develops a Marxist approach to architectural history, focusing on 19th- and 20th-century housing and urban planning in Britain, Italy, and West Germany.

Emanuele Trevi is one of the most acclaimed writers and critics of his generation. His books include Qualcosa di scritto (2012, Strega Prize finalist, European Prize for Literature winner), Sogni e favole (2019, Viareggio Prize), Due vite (2020, Strega Prize) and La casa del mago (2023). He contributes to the Corriere della Sera.

Bianca Trevisan is a contemporary art historian and professor at UCSC Milan and Brescia and at the G. Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo. Director of the Fondazione Galleria Milano, she has curated projects and research on artists including Shūsaku Arakawa, Betty Danon, Enzo Mari, and Maurizio Cattelan.

Luca Trevisani is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, video, performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema, and architecture. His work investigates matter and its narratives, questioning and subverting the historical characteristics of sculpture.

Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli lives and works in Rome. Trained in Philosophy, his artistic practice emerges from long-term research and accumulations, realized across various media including performances, installations, and films. His work has been exhibited in museums, institutions, and international festivals such as MAMbo (Bologna), ICA (London), Lincoln Center (New York), Quadriennale di Roma, and Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva). In 2004 he co-founded the collective ‘Mastequoia’ with Gabriele Silli and Giacomo Sponzilli.

Elisabetta Trincherini is Professor of Theory and Criticism of Design and History of Design at the University of Ferrara. PhD in Semiotics, she has collaborated with Italian and international cultural and museum institutions and has directed the historical archive of the Centro Studi Poltronova per il Design since 2017. Since 2021 she has been a member of the board of the Italian Association of Design Historians.

Cy Twombly (1928–2011) was an American artist who spent much of his life in Italy. His distinctive style, situated between drawing and painting, drew inspiration from ancient Mediterranean history and geography, Greek and Roman mythology, and epic poetry. In his works, Twombly created a universe where iconography, metaphor, and myth intertwined, translating ancient knowledge into contemporary art.

Elin Unnes is a Swedish journalist, music critic and writer. She has been a magazine editor for Vice Scandinavia and Rodeo and writes regularly for Dagens Nyheter and Allt om Trädgård. The Secret Gardener is her first book, published in 2014.

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo composed of Francesco Ragazzi and Francesco Urbano. Active across contemporary art, cinema, and digital culture, the duo has developed new exhibition formats and production strategies, collaborating with artists such as Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Goldsmith, Haroon Mirza, and Pauline Curnier Jardin, and working in museums, universities, and media spaces worldwide.

Stéphane Vacquier is a curator and archivist, head of editions at the NMNM – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

Jacopo Valentini lives in Modena and Milan. After earning a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, he completed a Master’s in Photography at IUAV University of Venice under the supervision of Stefano Graziani. His work explores the relationship between territory, memory, and representation, and is included in major public and private collections such as IBC – Emilia-Romagna Region, Galleria Civica di Modena – FMAV, Palazzo Rasponi 2 (Ravenna), Fondazione Ragghianti (Lucca), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice), Collezione Farnesina (Rome), and Museo Nazionale di Fotografia (Cinisello Balsamo). He is currently developing a research project focused on territorial displacement in the collective imagination.

Chiara Valerio (born in Scauri, 1978) is an Italian writer, translator, and editor. She holds a PhD in Probability Theory and is Head of Italian Fiction at Marsilio. Author of several essays and novels, she also hosts radio programs for Rai Radio 3.

Giorgio Vallortigara is a full professor of neurosciences and vice director of the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento.

Roberta Valtorta is a photography historian and a member of SISF (Italian Society for the Study of Photography). She was Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Cinisello Balsamo from 2005 to 2015. From 1984 to 2024, she taught History of Art and Photography at the CFP Riccardo Bauer in Milan. Since 2020, she has been teaching Theory and Technique of Photography at IULM University in Milan.

Giorgio Vasta is an Italian writer. He has published the novels Il tempo materiale (minimum fax, 2008, Premio Città di Viagrande 2010, Prix Ulysse du Premier Roman 2011), Spaesamento (Laterza, 2010), Presente (Einaudi, 2012, with Andrea Bajani, Michela Murgia, Paolo Nori), and Tre orfani (Casagrande, 2021). Together with Emma Dante, he wrote the screenplays for the films Via Castellana Bandiera (2013) and Le sorelle Macaluso (2020). He contributes to La Repubblica, Il Venerdì, Il Sole 24 Ore, and Il Manifesto.

Chiara Vecchiarelli is a teacher and researcher at Sorbonne, curator of ‘Creators facing the Climate Emergency’ at Fondation Thalie, and works on imaginal practices at the Écoles normales supérieures de France. She is also co-founder of ‘Bored Curators United’, a collaborative research and action platform exhibiting contemporary art, poetry, and film.

Riccardo Venturi teaches Theory and History of Art at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. He collaborates with the ICA Foundation in Milan and contributes to exhibition catalogues, academic publications, and magazines including Artforum, Alias – Il Manifesto, Flash Art, and doppiozero.

Flaminia Veronesi is an artist who explores the fantastic and the marvelous through a playful approach to artistic practice. She creates heterogeneous works where different media and materials coexist without hierarchy, ranging from textiles and polymer clay sculptures to ceramics, pencil drawings, painting, watercolors, glass engravings, and installations.

Serena Vestrucci is an Italian artist who lives and works in Milan. After attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and the IUAV in Venice, she has taken part in various artist’s residencies both in Italy and abroad. Her solo shows include Non siamo soliti ricordare le cose che accadranno, Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena (2018), Fioritura, Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan (2021), Giù le scarpe dal tavolo!, Casa Gramsci, Turin (2023), Contorno, Galleria Renata Fabbri, Milan (2024).

Paola Viganò is an internationally renowned architect and urban planner, Full Professor of Urban Theory and Urban Design at EPFL in Lausanne and lecturer at the IUAV University of Venice. She directs the Urban Planning Laboratory (Lab-U) and the Interdisciplinary Habitat Research Center at EPFL, and is a member of scientific committees in France and across Europe.

Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, 1948) is a Spanish writer known for his unique and provocative narrative, blending fiction, essay, and metanarrative. He debuted in 1973 with the novel Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje and has published numerous works, including Bartleby & Co. (2004), Montano’s Malady (2007), Never Any End to Paris (2011), A Brief History of Portable Literature (2015), Dublinesque (2012), The Illogic of Kassel (2015), Because She Never Asked (2015), Vampire in Love (2016), Mac and his Problem (2019), and Montevideo (2025). His writing is marked by refined language and a deep exploration of literature and identity.

Andrea Viliani, an art historian, has been the Director of the Museum of Civilizations in Rome since 2022.

Paul Virilio (1932–2018) was a philosopher, urbanist, and cultural theorist. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military.

Luca Vitone, artist, lives and works in Berlin and Milan. Since 1987 his work has been exhibited in public and private spaces in Italy and abroad including: Venice Biennale, MART Rovereto, PAC Milan, Museion Bolzano, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, MMOMA Moscow, CAPC Bordeaux, Montevideo Biennial, Neuer Berlin Kunsthalle, Palais de Beaux Arts Brussels, Museo Pecci Prato, MAXXI Rome, Triennale Milan. Ha published, in collaboration with Franco La Cecla, Non è cosa / Non siamo mai soli (Elèuthera, 1998); Effemeride Prini (Quodlibet, 2016); the monography Io, Luca Vitone (Silvana Editoriale, 2017). He is a lecturer at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan since 2006.

Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a Santa Lucia poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in the ’80s and the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013.

Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer, artist, and editor, arts activist, and mentor for emerging and established writers. She holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and currently holds an MSCA postdoctoral fellowship at Maynooth University. She regularly works as a university teacher, researcher, and editor.

Ache Wang is a knitting designer, consultant, and researcher. She graduated from École Duperré, Paris in Fashion and Environment Design and is currently pursuing a second Master’s in Geo-Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, mentored by Formafantasma.

Peter Weber is a Swiss writer, born in Wattwil and currently living in Zurich and the Toggenburg region. His debut novel, Der Wettermacher (tr. The weather maker), has won several literary awards. He is also a musician involved in experimental projects.

Robert ‘Bob’ Wilson (1941–2025) was an American theater director, playwright, and choreographer, renowned for his collaboration with Philip Glass on Einstein on the Beach and with artists such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Waits, and David Byrne. He also worked as a painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer.

James Wines is a prominent American artist and architect, born in 1932, known for founding the environmental art and architecture organization SITE in 1970. His work is characterized by a site-specific, environmentally conscious approach that integrates buildings with their surroundings, promoting ‘integrative thinking’ by drawing on multi-disciplinary ideas. His career includes numerous projects, influential books like De-Architecture and Green Architecture, and a long history of teaching and lecturing on these topics.

Rachel Withers holds a degree in Fine Arts and Art and Architectural History in Europe. Since the late 1990s, she has contributed to Artforum International and has also written for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The Nordic Art Review.

Joshua Wong is a Hong Kong activist and politician who served as secretary-general for the pro-democracy party Demosistō. Wong rose to international prominence during the 2014 Hong Kong protests as one of the leaders of the so-called ‘Umbrella Movement’, for which he has been arrested several times. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.

Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in Bologna. The Wu Ming collective is best known worldwide for the book Q, translated into 18 countries.

Giorgio Zampa (1921–2008) was an Italian journalist and Germanist.

Mauro Zanchi is an art critic, essayist and curator. He has been head of the temporary museum BACO (Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna) in Bergamo since 2011.

Francesco Zanot is a photography critic, curator, and historian. He served as curator of CAMERA, Italian Center for Photography (2015–2017), and has lectured at institutions in Italy and abroad, including Columbia University in New York. He is currently Artistic Director of the Foto/Industria Biennale at Fondazione MAST, Bologna, and Course Leader of the Master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA Milan.

Marco Zanuso (1916–2001), from Milan, a student and collaborator of BBPR, is considered one of the founding fathers of Italian industrial design. His objects won him seven Golden Compass awards. He was among the first to devote himself to the application of new materials and technologies to everyday objects and to the industrialisation of products in the years after the Second World War and the Italian economic boom. As an architect, in addition to a number of private residences, he designed famous buildings for Olivetti (the factories in Argentina and Brazil, as well as in Italy) along with the Italian headquarters of IBM.

Mirko Zardini is the former Director and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research engages with contemporary architecture, urbanism, and landscape by questioning and re-examining the assumptions on which architects operate today.

Li Zhenhua is a writer, curator, producer and artist living between Shanghai and Zurich.

Zinovy Zinik is a Russian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.

Guido Zucconi is an Italian architect and architectural historian. He teaches History of Architecture and Urban History at IUAV University of Venice.