Contributors: Dreams
Walter Aprile
Computer scientist, robotics expert and free thinker. Parma 1971
Massimo Banzi
Teacher, expert in physical computing, technologist, Monza 1968
Oliviero Barbieri
Born in Carpi (Modena) in 1954. His expository career began in 1978. From 1989 he started travelling frequently to the Orient especially to China. In 1993, 1995 and 1997 he particepated in the Venice Biennal and many other international manisfestations dedicated to contemporary visual arts.
Danilo Capasso
Artist and Designer, Director of N.EST. He collaborates with Hub
Stefano Caselli
Journalist, he has worked with Gad Lerner for L’Infedele and for 3131, RadioRai. Lives and works in Milan.
Line U. Christiansen
Interaction designer, Copenhagen, 1976
Diego D’Agostino
Architect and researcher for University, Editor in chief of Memenest
Laura Di Summa
1981, Laureata in filosofia a Torino, si interessa principalmente di filosofia della mente e scienze cognitive. Collabora con la redazione di Cluster. Graduated in Philosophy in Turin, her interests are especially on cognitive science and philosophy of mind.
Angelo Consoli
Graduated in jurisprudence in 1981. He is director of CODECO, a consultancy company in European Affairs and Progressive Communications with headquarters in Brussels. CODECO is the cell of European perspective of the Foundation on Economic Trends presided over by Jeremy Rifkin. Angelo Consoli has collaborated with the artist Jean-Michel Folon, in numerous progressive campaigns, of which “al libertà non ha casa”, “Roma Capitale della Lotta alla povertà e alla fame nel mondo”and “Preventive Peace”, for the European Social Forum in 2003. He is also a freelance journalist commissioned by television programmes relative to European issues on Italian television Europa 7 and he collaborates with other Italian media bodies among them the daily paper Liberazione and the online journal Articolo21.com
Tal Drori
Interaction designer. Rehovot (Israele), 1970
Vanni Ferrarelli
Architect, collaborates with Memenest and is the main coordinator of U.A. program
Paula Fox
Born in New York in 1923. Has written six novels, published in the Seventies but was rediscovered by a large public after Johnathan Franzen, the author of the cult novel The Corrections, notoriously ranked her work better than and more intense than work of authors like John Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Her most popular novel published in Italian is “Desperate Characters”
Piero Gondolo della Riva
A worldwide expert of the French writer Jules Verne, on whom he has dedicated over forty years of research. He is also involved in the study of the futuristic utopia from the seven hundreds on.
Franz Goria
FRANZ GORIA. Visual designer, musicista. Torino, 1968 Visual designer, musician. Turin, 1968
Nabeel Hamdi
Professor, housing and Urban development, and director for the Centre for Development and Emergency Planning (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University.
Heiko Hansen
Lives and works in Paris. He founded together with Helen Evans the media collective HEHE.Org based in the multidisciplinary Art Factory Mainsdoeuvres.
Sascha Haselmayer
An expert on the development of innovation and knowledge-intensive urban environments. He is a co-founder of Interlace-Invent ApS. He conducts research on locational embeddedness of innovation functions and is a visiting lecturer at the Post-Graduate Housing & Urbanism Programme of the Architectural Association (London), Full Time MBA of the Copenhagen Business School and Theseus Institute (France), the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
Lucas Introna
Professor of Organization, Technology and Ethics at Lancaster University Management School. His research interests are on economics and the ethical consequence of innovation and information technology and paying special attention to privacy and video surveillance.
Avetik Kalashan
“I’ve always been attracted to pencils and the comparison between their extreme physical simplicity and the infinite things they are capable of expressing and communicating, overcoming all barriers posed by cultural diversities.”
Diana Marrone
1973, Journalist and writer, fundraiser
Luca Milanetto
Researcher on social politics at the Department of Economics in Turin.
Stefano Mirti
Project designer, globetrotter, Turin, 1968
Simone Muscolino
Project designer & videomaker, Turin 1974
Alessandra Paracchi
Freelance architect based in Turin. In 2003, on the wake of keen interest towards research in both architecture and planning together with Rebecca Gasco and Camilla Paracchi she founded Skirt; a work group with a totally Turinese outlook focused on bringing forward theoretic and practical research on architecture and city related issues.
www.skirt.it, alessandra.paracchi@tiscali.it
Matteo Pastore
Architect and member of the group of architects, Cliostraat based in Turin.
Paolo Pedercini
Lives and works in Milano where he works in an alternative marketing agency called guerrigliamarketing.it. He teaches multimedia communication at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. He has been conducting the “molleindustria” project since 2003, the first site on politician videogames in Italy. www.molleindustria.it
Domenico Quaranta
Art critique and curator. He’s taking a docturate at the University of Genoa. He main areas of work are Net Art and new media. Ex-editor for Cluster, he writes for various contemporary art magazines and holds a course in Net Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Brera. He wrote NET ART 1994-1998. La vicenda di Äda’ web, and he curated the exhibition Connessioni leggendarie. Net art 1995- 2005 (Milano, Mediateca di Santa Teresa, October and November 2005)
Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG
Is the Bristish ambassador to Italy. Born in Liverpool, Roberts was educated at Oxford, earning a degree in modern languages in 1968 before joining the Foreign Office. He became the UK’s first ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on its recognition as a state. Serving as the ambassador to the Republic of Ireland he became the ambassador to Italy in March 2003. In 2000 he was made a Knight Commander of the order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) In May 2005, he was confirmed as the next President of Trinity College, Oxford starting on 30 September 2006
Salvatore Rizello
Professor of Cognitive and Experimental Economics at the University of Piemonte Orientale ed Economia of culture at the University of Turin. He coordinates the Centre for Cognitive Economics in Alessandria. He is among the founders of the Società Italiana di Scienze Cognitive (Italian society of Cognitive Science) and is the national secretary of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (Italian Association of Political Economy).
Francesca Sassaroli Architect and member of the group of architects, Cliostraat based in Turin.
Davide Szondy
Freelance writer and webmaster of Tales of Future Past based in Seattle.
Achille Varzi
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York (USA). His main research interests are in logic and metaphysics. Currently he is working on a book on identity and a volume of illustrated philosophical stories for children.
Davide Valentini
1980, Researcher on classical culture and literature at Università degli Studi di Torino. Lives in Torino.
Federica Verona
Born in Udine in 1976, architect living and working in Milan. She is dedicated to research of different aspects of urban life especially working on housing issues and “homelessness”. Since 2004 she has been working for Multiplicity as a Researcher.
Paolo Verri
Born in Turin in 1966, is director of Torino Internazionale. He was director of the Turin Book Fair and the Turin Music Fair from 1993 to 1997. Since 1998 he has been working towards improving Turin and its eminence.
Matteo Willis
An artist who lives in the UK. Using film he explores the principles of complexity, most recently through works on cities.
