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The architect Alberto Iacovoni (1966) is a founding member of ma0/emmeazero (www.ma0.it), an architecture studio whose activity ranges from interactive multimedia installations to urban planning, which has earned him numerous awards in national and international competitions. He has also taken part in exhibitions that include the 10th, 11th and 12th edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. From 1999 to 2004 he was part of Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade (www.stalkerlab.it).

His works have been published in the most important architecture magazines and publications. He is the author of Game Zone, playground tra scenari virtuali e realtà (Birkhauser 2003; Edilstampa 2005), Playscape, published in 2010 by Libria, and - with ma0 - Borderlines (Damdi 2008), a monograph dedicated to the work of the studio.

He has taught in various universities and training institutes, such as the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, NABA in Milano and Cornell in Rome.
He is currently Scientific Director at the Rome office of Istituto Europeo di Design (www.ied.it), the international Design training network, after spending three years as Director, from 2009 to 2012.

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With a degree in architecture from Genoa, he worked for a long period with Giancarlo De Carlo. Towards the end of the 1970s he founded StudioBau, a workshop with which he developed many projects marked by the pursuit of solutions for interaction between users and spaces, receiving many prizes and honors, including nomination for the Compasso d’Oro.
His projects in public contexts include the design of several waterfronts, masterplans and guidelines for zones involved in processes of urban regeneration, also in the wake of exceptional events like the earthquake in Umbria and the Marches at the end of the 1990s. He has acted as art director of several manufacturing firms, designing product lines, display spaces and installations, supervising the entire chain of operations, including the phase of communication.
He has taught design at the Milan Polytechnic, the University of Trento, Florence Institute of Design, and has been a lecturer at the Academy of Mendrisio; in 2012 he was appointed as Visiting Professor at the American University of Sharjah, and later at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of Canadian University Dubai.
Thanks to his experiences in the Middle East, in 2017 he founded UAE Modern, a curatorial project for the creation of knowledge transfer between local and international experts in the field of sustainable development (www.uaemodern.org).
Invited by Mario Cucinella, in 2018 he became the director of the program of studies of SOS – School of Sustainability, the post-graduate course that combines education, research and professional practice in close contact with companies, with the objective of training professionals in the field of sustainability. As Director he has initiated a path of internationalization of the school, while focusing on programming, development and curriculum maintenance, promotion, consultant relations and the launching of projects with the partners of SOS, including (during the year in progress): collaboration with Eni Gas & Luce on the project smarTown, organized by Interni Magazine for the FuoriSalone in Milan; the project for the Amani for Africa NGO for a center for street children in Zambia; the pilot project for new collaborative civic spaces in Bologna, in collaboration with Fondazione per l’Innovazione Urbana; the project for innovative hospitality models and the project Pollution 2018 organized by Iris Group for Cersaie in Bologna, 23-28 September 2018.

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Massimo Iosa Ghini is founder and president of a multidisciplinary architect and design company based in Bologna, Milan and Miami. 
Iosa Ghini has produced work in many forms, including architecture, furniture design and interiors. Its focus on sustainable design can be seen in most of his projects like the worldwide Ferrari Stores, the electric transport line People Mover in Bologna and hotel designs. Residential projects and a very innovative concept of a building for short term apartments have been designed for clients like Oko Group, CMC Group and Prelios Sgr.
Massimo Iosa Ghini has been appointed Ambassador of Italian Design, Member of Leonardo Committee, and in 2015 received the Marconi Award for Creativity.

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Sebastian Irarrázaval nace en Santiago, Chile, en 1967. He graduated in architecture at the Universidad Católica of Chile and continued his vocational training in this field at the Architectural Association of London. He is Ordinary Professor at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Católica of Chile, and visiting professor at various universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston (MIT) and the Istituto Universitario of Architecture of Venice (IUAV). His works have been displayed at various exhibitions and biennials and also widely published in specialist magazines. He has received numerous acknowledgements, including the nomination for the Swiss Architectural Award (2016) and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (2016), the AOA award (1999), the Biennial of Architecture of Chile award (2008), the Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture award of Shenzhen & Hong Kong (2012), the WAVE (2014, 2015), the AZ Award (2016), the Wood Design and Building Awards (2016) and the RIBA International Prize (2016).

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1941  Born in Seoul Metropolitan City
1965-69  Graduated from The University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture
              Worked at Kiyonori Kikutake Architects and Associates
              Started his own studio, Urban Robot (URBOT) in Tokyo
1979 Changed its name to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Awards and Prizes
1986 Architecture Institute of Japan Prize for “Silver Hut”
1992 33rd Mainich Arts Award for Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
1998 Ministry of Education Award for the Encouragement of Arts for “Dome in Odate”
1999 Japan Art Academy Prize for “Dome in Odate”
2000 Accorded the Title “Academician” from The International Academy of Architecture
2000 The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters
2001 Grand Prize of Good Design Award 2001 from Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO) for “Sendai Mediatheque”
2002 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 8th International Architecture Exhibition NEXT at the Venice Biennale
2003 Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for “Sendai Mediatheque”
2004 XX ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for “Ripples” (furniture design)
2006 Royal Gold Medal from The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
        Public Building Award for “Sendai Mediatheque”
2008 ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for the Stand Horm 2005
        6th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts
2009 Medalla de Oro from Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid
2010 The Asahi Prize 2009
        The 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu
2012 Golden Lion for Best National Participation for the Japan Pavilion 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (Served as Commissioner)
2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize