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Peter Lorenz has two degrees in architecture, one from Innsbruck University (1975) and one from Venice (1983). He
opened his studio in Innsbruck in1980, and the practice was extended in 1991 with the opening of a branch in Vienna, now the head office. Over the years he has designed and produced master plans, shopping centres, residential districts and hotels, and has had dealings with the world of design.
Edward Hubbard is an American cognitive scientist from the United States has studied synesthesia for over ten
years. When not looking at pictures of brains, he enjoys mountain biking, kayaking and snowboarding. He has
a passion for travel, and gave us this interview while on the Caribbean island of Aruba, during his honeymoon
Márcia Theóphilo was born in Fortaleza, Brazil. She
divides her time between Italy and her native country.
A poet and anthropologist, all her work is inspired by
the Amazon rainforest, its people, legends, flora and
fauna, and she has been deeply influenced by her father’s
and grandmother’s tales. Her work operates a
fusion between emotional and cultural memory, poetry
and documentation, archaic and contemporary
world, and she is committed to safeguarding the forest’s
natural and cultural heritage, and condemning
its destruction.
She published tales, essays and several poems, writing
both in Portuguese and Italian. Since 2008 she has been
a member of the World Poetry Academy and has been
nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize 2010.
Mehmet Murat Somer was born in Ankara (1959). After graduating from the Middle Eastern University School of Industrial Engineering he worked briefly as an engineer, and was then employed for a longer period in a bank. In 1994 he became a management consultant, conducting seminars on management skills and personnel development. He has written screenplays for films and television series, and also writes classical music reviews for various newspapers and magazines. He now lives in Istanbul.
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.
Colour has always been with us and has been, and will always be, one of the great unsolved mysteries.
Full professor of vine-growing at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza Campus, and Honorary President of the International Vine and Wine Organisation (OIV).
managing director Magis Desing
managing director Gruppo Zegna
Architect, designer, artist, theorist, curator, author… born in 1931, he has created pieces or collaborated with Alessi, Philips, Cartier, Swatch, Hermés, Venini. His focus is on objects, furniture, concept interiors, paintings, installations and architecture.
Founded Atelier Mendini (1989) with his brother Francesco, also an architect.
His website: www.ateliermendini.it
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founding Galleria Continua
Concept artist, painter, sculptor, designer, and calligrapher, Huang Rui is one of the founders of Le Stelle, the first avant-garde group in China. Founded in the eighties, the group challenged the strictures and prohibitions of officialdom against the creative freedom of artists.
General Director, NIFT
President of Etnoteam.
journalist and cookery expert.
She has always worked at RCS, first at Bella, then Anna (now “A” magazine).
When angry, she finds cooking is a good way to soothe her nerves. As she often gets angry, she’s learned a lot about food, making lots of people overweight in the process.
Despite the embarrassment, Maura let herself be photographed with Gassman and Argentero, and since that day has gone up in her mother’s estimation.
I deal with all aspects of astrology: teaching, writing, giving consultations. I also attend international conferences and have a keen interest in astrological iconography (mostly traditional although there is no shortage of modern influences such as the special Zodiac designs of Erté or grotesque variations of the Zodiac Man). Clients also ask me for financial astrology readings (I used to be an accountancy lecturer). I love astrology because, despite being vilified and misinterpreted, it has survived for several thousands of years, and its secret formulas are constantly being renewed. After decades of being devoted to the subject, I have a few doubts about freedom of action!
French journalist and former food columnist for Le Monde, Guillaume Crouzet founded the magazine Elle à Table. Ex-director of Gourmet TV, he was once a member of the jury of Villa Medici (Rome), in the culinary arts section. He is now the executive editor of L’Express Styles magazine.
For 30 years, Charles Bourland designed food and packaging for space missions at the Food Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. An expert in nutrition, he began with the Apollo 12 programme and continued until the days of the International Space Station. Now retired, he has turned to writing: with Gregory Vogt he co-authored “The Astronaut’s Cookbook – Tales, Recipes and More”, a book that tells you how to reproduce recipes used in space, and takes a behind-the-scenes look at his long career.
He doesn’t consider himself to be a great chef, but is quite handy when it comes to chillis or grills, and has even been asked to act as referee during barbecue contests. His favourite space food is prawn cocktail and irradiated beef steak, while his preferred terrestrial fare is Italian food, although he turns up his nose at restaurants that adapt it to suit American tastes.
Managing director Modo & Modo
Consultant Modo & Modo
Organisers of the 51st Venice Biennale.
Formerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence [ http://www.unifi.it ], the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It’s a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively participate through small and large daily actions in collectively striving to improve the sad lot of the world we live in. In his latest book, “The politics of everyday life: making choices changing lives”, Ginsborg analyses and interprets the evolution of modern-day society starting from the primal form of social organisation, the family, the foundation stone on which to build for a conscious and informed change of the current state of affairs.
Anthropologist
Art director and workshop manager at nKA / ICA, independent centre of Art in Belgrade (Serbia) since 2001. She has also collaborated as visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) in Rome where she curated, among others, exhibitions by Michal Rovner & Andreas Gursky, Alfredo Jaar, Ernesto Neto and series of lectures “Art Highlights” that involved great number of internationally renowned artists and curators.
She coordinates the Real Presence workshop: www.real-presence.org
Dobirla Denegri on LinkedIN public profile.
President La Perla.
Marketing vice-president Hilton International.
Chief executive Arts and Business Sweden.
Vodafone, Coca Cola and Sky are some of the companies that, since 1996, have turned to Digit [ http://www.digitlondon.com ] to create projects for digital interaction on the web. Digit is situated in the East End of London, where 25 people develop innovative technological interfaces and platforms; a look towards the future to imagine new life scenarios like Motofuture [ http://motofuture.motorola.com/flash_holder.html ] for Motorola.
We had a chat with them to try to understand where the world of the Internet is going and about new musical tendencies and creativity.
Martí Guixé loves to define himself as brilliantly simple and scrupulous, but eccentrically so. He’s a nomad: his office is the home page of his web site, a milieu that’s easy to update and adapt to one’s needs and mood [ www.guixe.com ].
He’s currently working as a designer for Camper. In the past he’s also worked for Alessi, Cosmic, and Droog Design. He’s the inventor of edible products, sponsored food, and the 3-D snack.
We discuss the concept of “refresh” with a designer who hates objects, but uses them in so far as he needs to, and no more.
Matthew Sharpe has written a fine collection of stories called Stories from the Tube (1998). Each story starts with a line extrapolated from an ad. This work was followed by a novel, Nothing is Terrible (2002), where the main character, Mary White, prefers to be called Paul and is always seeking love in unlikely places. But his real claim to fame comes along with his latest novel, The Sleeping Father. Not that this fame came easily, though. Before the accolades, it managed to get itself turned down by twenty prospective publishers. Then, thanks to word of mouth, the news that a literary work that deserved attention was out started spreading; reviewers started acclaiming, and translators started translating it into many different idioms.
Sharpe has taught creative writing in a number of public schools in New York, at Columbia University, and elsewhere, and is now teaching at the Wesleyan University [ http://www.wesleyan.edu ].
Lecturer in Economics.
Scholar and designer, Carlo Vezzoli lectures at the undergraduate course of Industrial Design and at the post-graduate master course in Strategic Design of the Milan Polytechnic.
He also directs a design research laboratory at the Polytechnic, with the objective of pursuing product and service design in full compliance with environment-friendly standards for sustainable development.
He has also lectured in universities abroad, especially in Finland and the Netherlands, countries in which environmental care and protection have always figured high on the political and social agenda.
See his bio at DIS.
If our care and concern for environmental issues largely depends on our outlook, then it must be admitted that our outlook is very narrow indeed. Dialogue is to be understood as the art of living, of seeing and understanding the relationship between a problem and the people who have to cope with it, of coming to terms with reality from different and at times diametrically opposed points of view.
That’s exactly what Shafique Keshavjee [ Changing the world through dialogue ], a Kenyan-born protestant pastor of Indian extraction, preaches and practices.
A writer deeply involved in social issues and in promoting inter-faith dialogue, he currently teaches theology at the University of Geneva. In his novel The prophet and princess, published in Italy in 2004 by Einaudi, he tackles the issue of globalisation, and even talks of love. His vision is one of solidarity, but he’s careful to shun empty emotions, acutely aware of how words can be misleading and yet with a special, heartfelt dream in the possibility of an ethos that may be truly and deeply shared beyond facile slogans that don’t add up to much and aren’t going to change the world, anyway.
The stakes are high, self-respect and respect for others are essential pre-requisites when the challenge is to strive to think things beyond frameworks that are considered insurmountable.
Director of the International Art Fair ARCO in Madrid.
James Dyson is a British industrial designer and inventor. Born in Norfolk UK in 1947, he is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation.
Dyson studied at the Royal College of Art before moving into engineering.
With his research team he has developed products that have achieved sales of over three billion pounds worldwide.
Paris-born Guillaume Prébois, 34, has been the Italian correspondent for Le Monde and the Geneva-based Le Temps since 2000.
He wrote “Il mio Danubio” (Ediciclo) in 2004.
Born in Schio (Vi) in 1955. In 1978 he moved to Milan to work with Ettore Sottsass. They formed a partnership in 1980 and in the same year, still under the guidance of Sottsass, they established Memphis, with Cibic as a designer and founding partner. In 1989 he set up on his own, founding Cibic & Partners, a studio working in the field of design, interiors and architecture both in Italy and abroad. The studio’s partners are Antonella Spiezio, Luigi Marchetti and Chuck Felton. In tandem with his design work, he is developing a study of alternative design techniques in the field of design and architecture, with the studio and institutes such as the Domus Academy, the Polytechnic of Milan, the IUAV (Venice University Institute of Architecture) and Shanghai’s Tongji University, where he is an Honorary Professor.
A Punjabi, Pakistani, Parsi woman. A weaving of cultures which represents the richness of Bapsi Sidhwa, a great writer brought up in Lahore when it was still India. A serious illness during childhood brought her to read a lot, mainly English literature. A liberating marriage moved her to Bombay where most of the members of the little socio-religious Parsi community, about 120,000 individuals, live.
There she wrote her first books. In 1978 “The Crow Eaters”, a portrait of her people so cleverly ironical that somebody foiled an attack against her. There she started to fight for the rights of women, whose difficult condition is at the heart of “The Bride” and of her latest novel “Water”. In “Cracking India” she told the tragedy of the ferocious partition of 1947 between India and Pakistan. A book on which Deepa Metha in 1999 based the movie “Earth-47”. In 1983 she moved to the States and another kind of freedom. Never stopping to go home. In a writing which is softly carved in flesh and colours, in a limpid, essential voice that barely conceals a subdued laugh, Bapsi Sidhwa tickles our courage to taste the world, to reconsider those certainties that so often kill our ideas.
Ugo Volli is a full professor in Semiotics at the University of Turin, where he also manages the Communications Research Centre and runs a specialist degree course on mass communications. Apart from his collaborations with various daily newspapers, radio and television, he also works in the field of communications research and consultancy
A politician and journalist, he was born in Rome (where he has always lived) in 1955.
Married with two daughters, in May 2006 he was elected for his second term as Mayor of Rome.
His political career began in Rome when he was appointed as a city councillor in 1976. Appointed as a member of the national secretariat of the Italian Communist Party, he was one of the key figures behind the birth of the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democrats of the Left). In 1995, together with Romano Prodi, he founded Ulivo and in 1996 was Vice President of the Council and Ministry for Cultural Heritage under Prodi’s administration. In 1998, he was elected as National Secretary of the Democrats of the Left, and a year later was elected as a member of the European Parliament. A former director of the newspaper “l’Unità”, he has written a number of books on politics, cinema and current affairs. He is strongly committed to eradicating Third World debt and to focusing international attention on Africa and its fight against hunger and poverty.
A graduate in Business Economics, Andrea Di Lenna has worked with Galgano & Associati and in the HR departments at companies such as Aprilia and Luxottica. Today, he is a partner at FC Consulting Group S.p.a and the mastermind of Performando, the executive training project inspired by the world of sport. His passion for sports and personal development encouraged him to write the book: La fabbrica dei campioni: dallo sport al management, lezioni dai grandi protagonisti (Di Lenna A., Manara D., Milano, Il sole 24 ore, 2004).
Umberto Guidoni was born on 18 August 1954 in Rome.
He is a magna cum laude graduate in physics, with specialisation in astrophysics, from the University La Sapienza of Rome.
His first journey into space took place on the Shuttle Columbia in 1996: he completed 251 orbits, covering over 10 million kilometres in 377 hours and 40 minutes.
He was in orbit again in 2001 to assemble the International Space Station (ISS).
He then turned to politics: in July 2004 Guidoni was elected to the European Parliament in the Group of the European United Left.
The artist and architect Adam Kalkin studied philosophy at the University of Vassar and architecture at Washington University and at the Architectural Association. His works are a combination of performance, conceptual art, kinetic construction and play. In 1991, he received the “Young Architect’s Award” from the magazine Progressive Architecture, and since then has worked on private production, exhibiting his work around the world: Deitch Gallery at New York, Art Basel / Miami and, in collaboration with Aernout Mik, in Holland, Switzerland, France and Belgium. Adam Kalkin has taken part in conferences at the Whitney and at the MoMA. He recently opened a factory to produce and sell a range of prefab houses called Quik Build.
After the preview at Art Basel Miami Beach in the United States, the Push Button House, home container designed by artist-architect Adam Kalkin and redesigned for the presence of illycaffè at the 52nd Venice International Art Exhibition, arrives for the first time in Europe. Inside the Masterpiece, at the entrance to the Giardini, it is possible to enjoy an illy espresso, rest and reflect on the exhibition.
Professor and coordinator of the postgraduate illustration programme, Eina school of art and design.
Stanton was born in Columbus Ohio (USA) and grew up in Florida. He has his MFA from the SVA in New York. In 1988 he settled permanently in Barcelona, Spain, where he has a graphic studio and is active as an exhibiting artist, as well as coordinating the illustration programme at EINA.
website: www.philipstanton.com
Juri is a legend in Italian sport. Despite the serious injuries he suffered during his career, he has become one of Italy’s best-known sportsmen. A gold medallist at Atlanta 1996, and bronze medal winner and flag-bearer at the opening ceremony in Athens 2004, Juri has earned himself the nickname “Lord of the Rings”. Today, he leads Team Visa, a group of young Italian hopefuls who will make their Olympic and Paralympic début at Beijing 2008.
Dylan Evans is a cognitive psychologist who works as a researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre at Cork University College, Ireland. He has published a series of scientific articles on the role that emotions and pain play in human conduct. He has written a number of essays on this topic, including Emotion: the science of sentiment, published in Italy by Laterza, and Placebo: The Belief Effect, published by Harper Collins in 2004.
A talented communicator, he regularly works for the English newspaper The Guardian, and works as a DJ in his spare time.
Originally from Mostar in Bosnia Herzegovina, he is a writer and former professor, firstly in French Literature at the University of Zagreb, then in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne, Paris. This is where, at the start of the Balkan war in 1991, he sought asylum and exile. He then moved to Rome, where he now lives, teaching Slavic Studies at the La Sapienza University.
Born in London (1956), he lectures on Architecture and Town Planning at the London School of Economics (LSE), and is an architectural consultant for London City Council. He has over 20 years’ experience in organising exhibitions and architecture competitions, as well as communicating architecture to the media and the general public. He directed the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Co-founders of the MFA Designer as Author Program
School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Co-authors of the 2008 book “The Design Entrepreneur”
For Steven Heller, see also: Steven Heller Master Series at SVA and www.hellerbooks.com
For Lita Talarico see also: The Designer As Author and Entrepreneur lecture at Fabrica (video)
Mimmo Jodice is one of Italy’s most internationally renowned photographers. He lives in his hometown, Naples, where he was born in 1934. From 1970 to 1996 he taught photography at the Fine Arts Academy of Naples. Important exhibitions include those at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Capodimonte Museum in Naples; the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; the Castello di Rivoli in Turin; the Wakayama Museum of Modern Art in Japan; the MART in Rovereto; the Bologna Museum of Modern Art. In 2006 he received an honorary degree in architecture from the “Federico II ” University of Naples.
Masayo Ave – Japan
Professor and Head of Product Design Department
Jon Turney has been writing on scientific issues for the layperson since 1980. He has collaborated with New Scientist, The Guardian, Times, Independent, New York Times. He has written several books on scientific topics including Frankenstein’s Footsteps. Science, genetics and popular culture (published in Italy by Einaudi) and Lovelock and Gaia: Signs of Life (Columbia University Press). His latest book, Rough Guide to the Future, is due out in autumn 2010.
He has also edited books by Brian Greene, Jared Diamond, Michio Kaku, John Gribbin, Jim Baggott, Peter Smith, and David Rothenberg.
He currently teaches creative writing at the Imperial College London and lectures on communication and science topics at other universities.
His personal interests include jazz and poetry.
Jon Turney’s official website and he also writes a blog called Unreliable Futures.
Per Olov Enquist, born in Vasterbötten in the far north of Sweden in 1934, is an author, television playwright, journalist and sports commentator.
In 1961 he published his first novel, Kristallögat (The Crystal Eye), and attained widespread acclaim three years later with another novel, Magnetisörens femte vinter (The magnetist’s fifth winter), which was loosely inspired by hypnotist Franz Anton Mesmer. He has been a member of the Swedish Cultural Council, the Swedish Broadcasting Commission as well as a trade unionist for the Writers Union.
Kevin Roberts is the New York-based CEO Worldwide of Ideas Company Saatchi & Saatchi – one of the world’s leading creative organizations with a team of 7000 people across 83 countries – and part of Publicis Groupe, the world’s fourth largest communications group.
In 2004 he released the book Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands, which shows how emotion can inspire businesses and brands to deliver sustainable value. His newest books are Sisomo: The Future on Screen, a look at the central role of sight, sound and motion in accelerating emotional connections in the digital age, and The Lovemarks Effect: Winning in the Consumer Revolution, a collection of influential insights on the impact of Lovemarks in the
market.
Kevin is the inaugural CEO in Residence at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School in the UK and Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Waikato Management School in New Zealand. Kevin’s leadership appointments range from membership of the Publicis Groupe Management Board, and business ambassador for the New Zealand United States Council, to trustee of the Turn Your Life Around Trust, an Auckland charity that mentors at-risk teenagers.
A New Zealand citizen, he has offices and homes in Auckland and New York, and homes also in St. Tropez and Grasmere in the English Lake District.
In 1985, Laudomia Pucci graduated from Luiss University Rome with a B.A. in Economics and Politics and, in the same year, joined Emilio Pucci in Florence.
Between 1985 and 1987, she worked on various aspects of the company’s activities including, management, creation, fittings, fashion shows and staff reorganization.
In 1987, she moved to Hubert de Givenchy in Paris. Here, she worked on RTW and accessories production and sales. As the main point of contact with major clients, she coordinated the sales and distribution of RTW.
Between 1989 and 2000, Laudomia Pucci di Barsento was Chief Executive Officer of Emilio Pucci. Her role covered management organization and logistics as well as the relaunch and restructuring of the company. She redefined the style, image, commercial and marketing approach of the brand including a new distribution pattern worldwide. She also reconsidered the licensing plans. Since 1998 Emilio Pucci has participated in Milan’s Fashion Week.
In 2000, Laudomia negotiated the agreement with LVMH, which included the sale of 67% of Emilio Pucci to the fashion group, and she became Deputy Chairman and Image Director of Emilio Pucci. Since Christian Lacroix’s arrival as Artistic Director in spring of 2002, she has worked with him on various projects including researching the Maison’s archives.
In 2004, the Emilio Pucci Foundation was inaugurated at the Palazzo Pucci and an exhibition of Emilio Pucci’s Early Drawings, 1949-1959, was held at the Palazzo Pitti.
Girard-Perregaux, vice-president, responsible for product design.
Dorian van der Brempt is Director of the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren in Brussels. Prior to that he was advisor of the Flemish minister of Culture, managing director of Boek.be (the organisation of Flemish publishers and booksellers), managing director of Enthoven Associates Design Consultants, and teaching at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
CEO Artemide and Art director Moroso.
CEO Swarovski Italy.
Managing director at Vega, Venice Science and Technology Park.
I am a science writer. Currently, I am focused on energy and climate issues but occasionally I write about psychology and cognitive science. In the past, I have published two books: a biography of Margherita Hack, a well-known Italian astrophysicist, and a collection of interviews about the Italian brain drain. At the moment I am author and producer of Enel TV’s monthly science program.
Managing director Venini and art director Venini.
In the group photograph she is the young, beautiful lady at the far right in the second row.
She maybe wears a sari, her cell not far away. She was the one to choose the position of all the other ones, their clothes, the expression on their faces. For a while Lavanya Sankaran was far away, studying economics in the States, working as an adviser in a bank.
Then back home, to Bangalore, ”an odd city, a mixture of beggars and billionaires where you take things philosophically”. She watched, from very near and from far away, from time and from around the corner, then, in the short stories of The Red Carpet she took a photograph in words, fixing the image of a transit complexity.
On the background a past ruled by shared principles and, facing, around, inside, an accelerated present, packed of difficult choices.
Beppe Finessi is an architect (currently teaching at the Design Faculty of the First Architectural College of Milan), critic (on the editorial board of one of Italy’s most important architecture journals, Abitare, between 1996 and 2007) and researcher (he has curated and written for important exhibitions featuring the work of Bruno Munari, Angelo Mangiarotti, Vico Magistretti and Alessandro Mendini, as well as up-and-coming artists such as Fabio Novembre).
In recent years he has been engaged in research work on a long-term project, learning from art (Imparare dall’Arte), where he has investigated the relationship between visual arts and architecture. Piccole cose (Small Things) has been the design theme and the centre of his scholarly interests in another project, Vedere l’arcobaleno di profilo (Viewing
the rainbow from the side).
Mimmo Jodice is one of Italy’s most internationally renowned photographers.
He lives in his hometown, Naples, where he was born in 1934. From 1970 to 1996 he taught photography at the Fine Arts Academy of Naples.
Important exhibitions include those at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Capodimonte Museum in Naples; the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome; the Castello di Rivoli in Turin; the Wakayama Museum of Modern Art in Japan; the MART in Rovereto; the Bologna Museum of Modern Art.
In 2006 he received an honorary degree in architecturefrom the “Federico II ” University of Naples.
Architect/entrepreneur and event designer.
Riccardo Donadon was born in Treviso and, after graduating from high school, embarked on a psychology degree course. In 1990 he started working with his father but his great passion was the internet, so halfway through 1995 he accepted the challenge to create a work crew whose purpose was to tell the world the story of the Benetton sports teams via the internet. A few months later the first Italian virtual mall Mall Italy Lab (http://www.mall.it) was set up. In 1999 it was signed over to Infostrada and is still present in the commercial area of the Italian portal Libero.it
September 1998 marked a turning point: Riccardo Donadon left Verde Sport together with the 8 people who had accompanied him along the Mall adventure and founded E-TREE (www.e-tree.com). From this moment on, it is all about e-nergy, enthusiasm and pure e-speed.
With Riccardo Donadon, in just a few months E-TREE became a reference point throughout Italy for its way of working, its informal outlook, its rapid growth, its business method and the undoubted skill in the solutions created. In 2001, when the company reached a 26-billion lire turnover and employed 160 people, it was sold in its entirety to the Etnoteam group.
In September 2003 Donadon left E-TREE and spent almost a year looking after his garden, relaxing and pondering new ideas and new initiatives.
In January 2005 Donadon founded H-FARM, the first private Italian incubator, with the aim of transforming innovative ideas into successful startups. H-Farm was born in the countryside of Ca’ Tron, near Treviso, and in May 2008 the second epicentre in Seattle, WA, USA was established. H-farm already boasts an operational office in Mumbai, India, which will soon become the third epicentre for business.
Michel Roth, cuisine director at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, deeply respects his neighbour and believes in professionalism that is achieved step by step, without improvising or leaving things to fate.
For this reason he can present himself to his clients properly and rigorously. But apart from being a great chef, he is also a creative and resourceful person.
It is his creativity that makes him dare and experiment with new recipes, such as in the case of the totally coffee based menu that was recently presented at the Ritz Hotel in Paris.
Designer and entrepreneur, founder of MHWay.
Senior Lecturer in Design, St Martins College of Art – London.
Spanish by birth, Cristina Nuñez has a passion for bringing out the best qualities and the strengths of her sitters.
Her charismatic portraits have appeared in the national and international media and in various books on photography.
She has been taking self portraits for 20 years and teaches photo self portraiture as a means of stimulating creativity at Forma, Domus Academy, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and the Steiner School in Milan.
In 2007 she founded with Davide Catullo Selfportrait Performance, a corporate training program based on the self portrait.
Her autobiography in images will be due for publication shortly.
Luis Sepúlveda was born on 4 October 1949 at Ovalle inChile. At the early age of fifteen years he was already a member of the national communist youth organisation and began distributing his stories and poems at tradeunion meetings, strikes and political rallies. His first book of short stories, “Crónica de Pedro Nadie”, won the 1969 edition of the Casa de las Américas Award.
His commitment as a political activist led to his arrest during the coup. He was imprisoned and tortured, and in 1977 managed to go into exile. His first stop-off was in Ecuador, where he lived for a while with the local native population. He then moved to Paris and Hamburg. After spending some time in the Black Forest, he now lives in Gijón in Spain. In addition to his authorial activity, he also directs the Iberian-American Book Salon.
His books have been translated into more than fifteen different languages.
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Martino Gamper hails from Bozen, where he was born in 1971. After studying sculpture and product-design at Vienna, he moved to Milan where he worked for a time with an important design studio. In 1998 he moved to London, where he enrolled in a masters course with the Royal College of Art and opened a studio all of his own. His works have been exhibited at the London Design Museum, the Nilufar Gallery in Milan, the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, the MAK in Vienna, and the Norwegian National Gallery in Oslo.
Sebastiano Bagnara is Full Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics as well as President of the Graduate Degree Course in Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the Alghero Campus of the State University of Sassari in Sardinia. He has taught at the Industrial Design Faculty of the Milan Polytechnic and directed the Department of Communication Sciences of the State University of Siena and the Psychology Institute of the Italian National Research Council.
He has been Secretary General of the International Ergonomics Association, and President of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) and of the Italian Ergonomics Society (SIE). He is currently science director of the specialized Italian journal, “Ergonomia”, as well as a member of the editorial committees of several leading national and international journals in the sector, including “Applied Ergonomics”, “Cognition Technology and Work, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing”, “International Journal of Applied Psychology”, “Travail Humain”, and “Sistemi Intelligenti”. He is associate editor of “Theoretical Issues” in Ergonomics Sciences. His publications include ten books and over two-hundred papers and essays in international journals dedicated to issues in the fields of cognitive psychology, ergonomics, and risk theory.
Moreno Gentili’s publications include: Suite Sarajevo (Archivi del ’900, 2008), On The Move, (Skira, 2008), Ideators (Skira, 2007), Do Not Cross (Johan & Levi, 2007), Skiing in The Sky (Olimpiadi Torino, 2006), Sguardo Nomade, (Archinto, 2004), Europe Terminal (Charta, 2004), NYC, New York Revisited (Charta, 2001), In linea d’aria (Feltrinelli, 1998), Habitat (Art&, 1995), Rivedute Veneziane (Idea Books, 1993), Milano Metropoli (L’iIlustrazione Italiana, 1988).
He has designed the interior decor and trademark of the new Fiat style centre, “Officina 83”. He is the author of the “Harmonia Mundi?” project for the new offices of the Milan-based national daily “Il Corriere della Sera”, where a permanent installation of 300 panels exhibit large-size images covering the history of the twentieth century. He has also designed the interior of the Benetton offices in Rome. He obtained the collaboration of Al Gore, Steven Spielberg, Marc Augé for the book On The Move, and was the editor of a series of books published by Skira on entrepreneurial culture in the world. He participated in the 2007 edition of the Venice Biennale, where he organised an exhibition in collaboration with illycaffè for the protection of European forests called “Do Not Cross”.
A journalist for La Repubblica, he is also a special correspondent for the Trieste newspaper Il Piccolo. Since 1986, he has dealt with events in the Balkans and in 2001, he went to Islamabad and Kabul to report on the American attack in Afghanistan. He is well known for his summer tours by bike, train or sailing boat, of which he gives daily accounts in the Repubblica: his last was in 2005, with Moni Ovadia in Jerusalem.
A journalist for La Repubblica, he is also a special correspondent for the Trieste newspaper Il Piccolo. Since 1986, he has dealt with events in the Balkans and in 2001, he went to Islamabad and Kabul to report on the American attack in Afghanistan. He is well known for his summer tours by bike, train or sailing boat, of which he gives daily accounts in the Repubblica: his last was in 2005, with Moni Ovadia in Jerusalem.
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Luca Campigotto, a Venetian photographer, has combined his work for businesses and institutions with his own research projects since 1990. His projects have included assignments in Venice, Rome, Naples, New York, Chicago, Cairo, Patagonia, Morocco, Yemen, and Cambodia.
He has exhibited at Mois de la Photo, Paris; the 47th Venice Biennale; MAXXI, Rome; MEP, Paris; IVAM, Valencia; the Gottardo Gallery, Lugano; the Art Museum, Florida; C.C.A., Montreal; and the Rome Photography Festival.
His works are featured in private and public collections including: Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland; Margulies Collection, Miami; Sagamore, Miami; Unicredit Collection, Milan; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Metropolitana in Naples; Museo Fortuny, Venice; Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Varese; Civic Gallery, Modena; Photography Museum, Cinisello Balsamo; Civic Museum, Riva del Garda; and CRAF, Spilimbergo.
He has published: Venicexposed, Contrasto/Thames&Hudson 2006; Sguardi gardesani, Nicolodi 2004; L’Arsenale di Venezia, Marsilio 2000; Fuori di casa, Galleria Imagina 1998; Molino Stucky, Marsilio 1998; Venetia Obscura, Peliti 1995. His latest work, entitled Le pietre del Cairo, published by Peliti, will inaugurate Rome’s International Photography Festival next April. He has always been interested in writing. In 2005, the review Nuovi Argomenti published a selection of his pictures and poems.
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