Authors’ Biographies
Abhirami R nair
Abhirami R Nair (1996) from Kerala state, India. I completed my B Arch in 2019 and currently pursuing MArch in Urban Design in India.
Ana-Maria Stefan
Ana-Maria Stefan is a visual artist from Romania. She currently is studying graphic arts. At the moment she works and lives in Bucharest.
Megan Lueneburg
Architectural designer, Fulbright scholar of the anthropology of architecture in Bulgaria. B.Arch, Iowa State University. Building a practice with artisans in le Marche, Italy.
Dezire Tilinger
Dezire Tilinger is an architect based in Belgrade, Serbia. She earned her master degree at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture. She participated in a number of workshops, exhibitions and won multiple architectural competitions. Her master thesis Monument: Landscape: Cityscape was awarded by the Sister Bulajic foundation in 2019. Her main field of research is the mapping of city transformations. She currently works for Blakstad Haffner arkitekter.
Donna Tansil
My name is Donna Tansil and I was born in Linz, Upper Austria. Since 2013 I live in Vienna. I am studying Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. At the moment I am working in a studio for landscape architecture, my next goal ist o finish my master degree.
Floor van Ditzhuyzen
Floor van Ditzhuyzen is an architect, researcher and tutor with long-standing interest in, and experience with, public space. Based in Rotterdam, she operates as the Public Space Detective, investigating common and uncommon phenomena in public space; www.publicspacedetective.com. Furthermore, she is one of the founding partners of the 'We Love Public Space' Festival; www.welovepublicspace.com.
Giulia Bonaiuti
Born in 1992 in the outskirt of Rome.
Architecture Graduate, I’m not an Architect. Studied Illustration, I’m not an Illustrator. Currently Studying Speech Therapy.
As Bruno Munari said “One thing leads to another”
John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin is a practicing architect and senior lecturer in architectural design in University College Cork.. He curated the Irish Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennales in 2012 and 2014. He exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016. He co-edited the book Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016. He won the Emerging Practice Award from the RIAI in 2015 and the Arthur Gibney Prize from the Royal Hibernan Academy in 2019.
Madeleina Kay
Madeleina Kay is a visual artist, writer and activist awarded ‘Young European of the Year 2018’. In 2019, she received a ‘Democracy Needs Imagination’ grant from the European Cultural Foundation, completing a performance/research tour of the EU27 with her project ‘The Future is Europe’. Madeleina has written, illustrated and self-published eight books for adults and children. Her visual artwork explores themes of identity, migration, nationalism, social cohesion and connectivity.
Patrick Macasaet
Patrick Macasaet is an Associate Lecturer at RMIT Architecture and co-founder of Superscale, a research and ideas-led experimental architecture studio currently operating in the uneasy terrains between speculation and reality; experimental and the industry pragmatic; between fiction and non-fiction.
Petra Marguc
Petra, architect, urban designer and lecturer, practised in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain, before setting up her practice in Paris, called Polimorph. Her current research project investigates Contact Urbanism, introducing play as a space of investigation and creation in architecture and urban design.
Scot Ritchie
Scot Ritchie is an author/illustrator from Vancouver, Canada. Mostly he does kids books (60 to date) but the life of a freelancer allows a wide range of opportunities to discover new art.
https://www.instagram.com/scot.ritchie/
https://scotritchie.blogspot.com/
https://childrensillustrators.com/scotritchie/portfolio
Valeria Penna
Architect and co-founder of the Atelier Appennini cultural association.
She graduated in Reggio Calabria with a thesis on the theme of urban regeneration. After a first experience at the riccispaini studio, he attended the master in Interior Design at the IED in Rome and began collaborating with Arch. Giuseppe Pasquali for the development of architectural and cultural projects.
She teaches "Theory and Technique of Representation" at the Master in Interior Design. With Pino Pasquali, she founded the cultural association named Atelier Appennini which has as its objective the theme of returning to small Italian villages.
Alberta Cuccia
My name is Alberta Cuccia, I’m 36. I studied History of Art at La Sapienza University in Rome and photography in my spare time. After my studies, I specialized to become a Photo Editor. I worked for several years in Milan for different magazines. I moved to Palermo in mid-2018 to deepen my work as a photographer.
From January 2020 I came back to Rome, my hometown, where I work as a consultant for Gambero Rosso and continued to be a photographer.
Angela Maria Miceli
Freelance architect works crosswise in landscape design&research and education in collaboration with public institutions, associations and no-profit organizations. Carries out studies on risk management issues and ecological transition.
Daniela Pardo
Daniela is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, and a minor in sustainability. As a young architect in training, she is very passionate about the design field, and everything associated with it. Her college career taught her that curiosity and passion are what drive design to be the best. Daniela’s background encompasses a wide range of architectural, graphic design, public relations, and marketing skills as she has gained experience and knowledge in each of these fields. Since the beginning of her college career, Daniela has worked as a freelance graphic designer and as the graphic designer for the Latin American Studies Center at UMD. These opportunities led to her involvement with Dupont Underground as their marketing and social media chair in 2019, and to her recent appointment as LA.IDEA DC’s Vice-Chair, an AIA committee meant to become the leading collective of Latin American design professionals in the Washington, DC area by creating opportunities for interaction among members, fostering professional development, and engaging the community. Currently, she is an architectural designer at Page DC, where she is part of the Lab Planning and Academic studio, in addition to being a helping hand in multiple departments in the office including marketing, and sustainability. Daniela grew up in Bogota, Colombia for the first half of her life and then moved to the U.S. with her mother. Once in the U.S. she moved in with a Jewish family and encountered people from all over the world. This experience kindled her desire for travelling, learning about different cultures, and designing for different communities. She has been privileged to have travelled to and explored 12+ countries and lived in three of the 12. Through these experiences, she has been able to expand her knowledge of the role of architecture and what it means to be an architect. It has taught her the meaning of leadership, collaboration, and the importance of having an open mind. She hopes to continue in the design field to work towards a more equitable future.
Emanuela Caponera
I am a creative designer, keen on digital communication and chromatic combinations, legibility maniac and a great food lover. I have a graphic education but a wider ambition. My skills range all over traditional graphic design: from brand identity, editorial design, illustration, motion graphics, to user interface for web, design and implementation of communication strategies. Among the numerous publications: "The Biennale of public space in Rome" and "The Triennale of architecture in Lisbon". In 2017 Lazio Creativo proclaims her among the three best designers in Lazio.
Frida Rahne
Born in Genova, Italy and raised both in Italy and Germany. After getting my Abitur in Germany I studied media and culture without finishing and applied for the HfbK art school in Hamburg.
Gregorio Carboni Maestri
Gregorio Carboni Maestri, PhD (1977) trained as an artist during youth, studied architecture in Brussels (La Cambre), Milan (Politecnico) and Porto (FAUP). Graduated with an M.Arch. thesis on the Tendenza and Italophilia in Portuguese architecture (dir. Eduardo Souto de Moura) and T.A. at Politecnico di Milano (2006—2013). Since 2015 teaches architectural design at La Cambre Horta (ULB) and contemporary architecture history at LOCI (UCLouvain). Visiting Research at Columbia University (2013—2015).
Juan Sanin
Juan is an everyday designer focused on the co-creation of experiences that contribute to people’s wellbeing. He is interested in lo-fi technologies, DIY and friendly hacking.
Maria Veltcheva
Maria Veltcheva, architect, PhD Architecture Paris VIII, Sapienza Rome,
lives and works in Berlin and Rom. Her research is dedicated to the idea of public space in the contemporary urban architectural and social context. She has specialised in the development and management of complex urban and architectural projects.
Vei Tan
Vei Tan is a sessional academic and has taught at RMIT Architecture and Monash Art Design & Architecture. She is co-founder of Superscale and founder of MIMAW, an experimental creative platform investigating the wonders of the ordinary.
Ross T Smith
Ross T. Smith, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University, Australia. His focus is on phenomenology and experiential learning in architecture research design studios. Bachelor and Master’s degrees in New Zealand, PhD at the University of Melbourne, and Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Paris. Smith is also a practicing artist who has been exhibiting internationally for twenty years. He is the Provocateur of FAXLAB.net (poetics, pragmatics, pedagogy).
Alessandro Faiella
Architect, graduated in 2009, he worked in several architecture practice in Italy, China and Spain. Since 2014, he leads his own architecture practice in Italy. Interested in issues such as heritage, urban regeneration and sustainability, he conceives architecture as a continuous process that is capable of making something extraordinary from the ordinary. And, above all, making people happier.
Anna Merci
Founder at Anna Merci Architecture, postgraduate Degree in Architecture and masters degree in Sustainable Urban Design. In 2013 she won the NIB Prize, which selects the top ten young Italian architects, Landscape section. Member of Renzo Piano G124, the Senator’s working group on Italian suburbs. Experienced works on various scales, from temporary installations to urban regeneration, she has developed a distinctive approach driven by the conviction that architecture represents a crucial means to interrogate social, economic, and political phenomena. She believes that good architectural design is inspired by the surrounding environment, her projects reflect the spirit of the place, its specific character and quality. In 2018 she won the International Competition for the Mextròpoli Pavilion in Mexico City, now included in the best Mexican Architecture of the XXI Century. She is currently working on “Follow Me!”: 33.180 square meters archeological-ecological urban park in the historical context of Canosa di Puglia, south Italy.
Daniele Mennini
Graduated in Architecture (2010) and Sports Facilities Design (2013). Living in Rome, founder of UStudio, a multidisciplinary office focusing on Design, Graphic Design and Communication. Exhibiting art, painting, cooking and venerating food as a cultural heritage.
Fabio Balducci
(Rome, 1981) architect and PhD, has been collaborating for several years with Sapienza University of Rome. Together with Orazio Carpenzano, he is the creator of the ArchiDiAP website, a collaborative encyclopedia with free access to architectural materials. In 2017 he created studio.dismisura, with Paolo Marcoaldi, through which he has the opportunity to explore the dimension of the project at different scales and to open a close comparison between theory and practice in architecture.
Gábor Domján
Gábor Domján (1970, Hungary) is a Budapest-based graphic designer with degrees from the Hungarian (now: Moholy-Nagy) University of Arts and Design (1993 BA, 1997 MA). He has been working as a freelance designer ever since he completed his studies; his works have been included in multiple group exhibitions. About 15 years ago Gábor started to pursue his interest in the pixel as the building block of images in the field of digital graphic art. First he focused on new patterns created by the distortion of diagonally connected pixels, and then he moved on to possible pixel variations in a given area. This has led to creating “cmykrmx” images that he describes as controlled randomization, a process through which an image first is broken up into pieces and then, after multiple steps, a new aesthetic quality is generated. The selected piece “curvingtheflat” is an example of this working method: it shows a further reinterpretation of a fragment of a previously remixed image that was generated by controlled randomization.
Nikita Itenberg
Nikita Itenberg (1989), born in Leningrad (USSR), grew up in France and first studied sciences and computer sciences in Grenoble (ENSIMAG), switching to architecture in Brussels (La Cambre, ULB). He briefly worked on the Kenneth Frampton archives with Gregorio Carboni Maestri. His M.Arch. thesis explored the work of Raimund Abraham. Member of the Cooperative DIA he teaches BIM drawing in Marseilles (ENSAM) and worked as a project leader for Unic Architecture.
Koen Broucke
Koen Broucke (1965) is a visual artist, historian and performer. He makes drawings, paintings, publications, installations, music, videos and performances. His work is included in numerous museums and collections. In 2019, he became Doctor of the Arts with the research 'The rosy gloom of battle overhead' which resulted in a book and an exhibition at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (B).
Matthieu Gabay
Matthieu Gabay was born in Rome and has lived for 20 years in Trastevere, on the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, witnessing the evolution of the neighbourhood. He now lives in Paris, where he works as an architect. He has been travelling extensively, but couldn’t find anywhere else such a wonderful public space.
Carol Emmons
Carol Emmons is Professor Emerita of Art & Design at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and specializes in site-specific installations.
Sara Caramaschi
Sara Caramaschi is an urban planner and postdoctoral research fellow in urban studies at the Gran Sasso Science Institute. She is a former visiting Ph.D. at Columbia University and UC Berkeley. Her interests gravitate around the reciprocal influence of social relations producing space and urban space shaping social practices. This is reflected in her previous research activities on public space, social life and spatial regulation and in her interest in contemporary human practices between rules and collective action.
Yimin Qiao
Yimin Qiao is a Chinese born multimedia narrator currently based in London and studying at the Royal College of Art. Her work contains illustration, photography, and other narrative materials. With a tone of dark humour, her current practice is trying to trigger the interactivity of images, using narrative in daily life to arise discussion based on public context.
Alessio Patalocco
1982, born in Italy, PhD in Culture and transformation of cities and territory, is a visual artist and architect. He found his agency "Alessio Patalocco Atelier" in 2008, his artistic creations and architectures, as far as his lectures, had been published in several magazines and books. Actually, he's a professor of Visual Communications and User Experience.
Karen Bermann
Long-time professor of architecture and drawing at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa and in Rome. Finally locked and landed in The Internal City. Currently working on a graphic memoir.
Giovanni Stalloni
Photographer and architect with 10+ years of experience. Passionate about analogue photography, travelling, music, literature, foreign cultures and languages. Exhibiting photographs, participating in international photographic competitions. Teaching photography basics.
Federico De Matteis
Federico De Matteis, architect, is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. He has studied in Italy, Germany and the United States, and taught at several international universities. His latest book, Affective spaces: Architecture and the living body has been recently published by Routledge.
Giovanni Petrucci
Architect grown up in Apulia, southern Italy, moved to Rome to deepen his studies. He focuses his activity on teaching and university research in the field of Architectural Technology applied to buildings and urban organisms. Co-author of various publications on the topic of environmental sustainability, he is a research fellow at Roma Tre University on the topic of climate change mitigation in the proximity spaces between buildings, in the light of their reassessed role during the pandemic.
Ioana Dumitrescu
I am a Bucharest based visual artist, currently studying photography and video art at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. My approach is directed in quite a bunch of aspects, but lately, my practices are linked to documentary and street photography using mostly analogue materials and procedures of image-making. I am interested in the conceptual playfulness of the urban surroundings that cover the city space.
Lamprini Lyrou
My name is Lyrou Lamprini and I live in Greece. I grew up in Messolonghi, a beautiful city with a great past and many mosquitoes. I studied architecture at the National and Technical University of Athens, and I am currently planning an around-the-world-tour, for when the doomsday is over. I love photography, cinema, graphic arts and I really enjoy hammocks and sunsets. My plan B in life is to become a yoga instructor or a Jedi master.
Melisa Duque
Melisa Duque is a Research Fellow of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, and a full-time member based at the Department of Design MADA. As a design researcher, her work sits at the intersection of Design Anthropology, Participatory Design and Everyday Design.
Paul Emmons
Paul Emmons is the Lathrop Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech. A registered architect, his most recent book is “Drawing Imagining Building” (2019).
Sara Sanchez
Sara Sánchez is an Urban Planner, Architect and expert in Cooperation and Basic Habitability from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). Her Master Thesis has been awarded several prizes. She has been a cooperant architect in El Salvador. She is also studying Sociology. After working in Ezquiaga Arquitectura, where she took part in projects in Spain and Latin America, she is currently developing the Urban Agenda for Seville, Castelló, and other Spanish cities.
Ira Ferris
Ira Ferris is Sydney-based, Zagreb-born curator, writer, podcaster, and cross-disciplinary artist working across dance, poetry, video art, analogue and sound collages. She is co-Artistic Director of Artemis Projects creating between Australia and Europe. In 2016 she was Director of profit-for-purpose gallery Folonomo (Surry Hills, Sydney), and is currently on the Alpha House Gallery committee (Sydney). Ira holds BA in Art History and MA in Journalism. She is occasional contributor to Eastside Radio’s 89.7FM arts program. Since 2017, she has been producing Artemis Projects podcast featuring interviews with artists from around the world. Her texts have appeared in Australian Delving into Dance, British Dance Art Journal, and in several international exhibition catalogues. She is regular contributor to Australia’s ADSR zine. Her own artistic practice spans across dance, poetry, sound, video, and collaborations. The works are conceptual investigations of social phenomena and she is continuously interested in exploring and communicating the relationship between the body and space. Ira currently runs classes in attentive movement and multi-sensory listening.