BK Talks: Expired?

Simona Galateo
Ph.D. architect, curator, and editor, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ferrara. She studied Urban Studies at Brighton University, obtained an II level Master's Degree in Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano and a Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano. She has curated numerous exhibitions on the main topic of contemporary architecture, exhibited in the "Italia2050" exhibition section of the Italian Pavilion at the 2010 Architecture Biennale, and the Triennale of Milan.

Dick van Gameren
Dick van Gameren has been the dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment since 1 April 2019. Dick van Gameren studied Architecture in Delft and graduated cum laude in 1988. For a long time, he ran his own architecture firm and in 2013 became a partner with Mecanoo Architecten in Delft. Over the years he has realised numerous projects, ranging from exhibition designs to urban-development master plans. Examples of his designs include residential buildings in IJburg and the Eastern Docklands area of Amsterdam and in the Westelijke Tuinsteden neighbourhood of the city. His design for the Dutch Embassy in Ethiopia won him the prestigious Aga Khan Award in 2007. It is just one of the many awards he has received. Recently, he won the Rijnlandse Architectuurprijs with his design for the Langebrug student housing project in Leiden. He has been Professor of Dwelling at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment since 2006, and chairman of the Architecture Department for ten years; his responsibilities include managing an international teaching and research network aimed at tackling the problem of affordable housing in rapidly expanding cities in Asia and Africa.

Martina Muzzi
Martina Muzi is a designer, curator, and educator based between Italy and the Netherlands. Her work engages critically with design through its complex material logistics, its geopolitical cultures, and its effects on social formations from the family to the school. She is the curator of the GEO—DESIGN exhibition platform at Design Academy Eindhoven, the founder of the collective pedagogical research program on Stigmergy, and the co-initiator of ArcHertz, an experimental sound program at Universo Assisi. She has also made documentary and speculative films for the Venice Architecture Biennale and Vitra Design Museum (as a member of Space Caviar) and for M+ Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong (with Joseph Grima) and co-curated the exhibition X is Not a Small Country at MAAT Museum in Lisbon with Aric Chen. Alongside her design research, she has collaborated on the production of large-scale exhibitions at Atelier Clerici and ALCOVA during the Salone del Mobile in Milan.

Elisa Pasqual
Elisa Pasqual is a designer and co-director of Studio Folder. The studio’s work spans between the cultural and commercial domains and the investigation of autonomous research paths, while working through a diverse range of outcomes—from data visualisation to the design of exhibitions, editorial products and digital platforms. Her PhD research maps the evolution of the visual communication of states, looking at the intersection of design, politics, and identity. She has taught visual design for BA and MA students of various universities between Venice, Milan, Bolzano, Lugano, and San Marino since 2008.

Erica Petrillo
Erica Petrillo is a writer and curator based in Milan, where she currently works for 2050+, an interdisciplinary agency working across the environment, technology, politics, and design. Her main interest is to create, with others, temporary zones for reflection, exploration, and exchange. In previous years, this manifested through public programs, which she curated for institutions as diverse as The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she co-curated the R&D Salon program (2017-18); the XXII Triennale di Milano—Broken Nature, where she was responsible for the cycle of symposia accompanying the exhibition (2018-2019); the post-academic institute van Eyck Academie of Maastricht. She holds a BA in Politics, Sociology and Psychology from Cambridge (2014) and a MA in Arts, Politics and Society from Maastricht University (2016).

Cino Zucchi
Born in Milano in 1955, Cino Zucchi has earned degrees in Architectural Design at M.I.T. and at the Politecnico di Milano, where he is currently Chair Professor. He has taught in many international design workshops and has been John T. Dunlop Visiting Professor at the GSD of Harvard University. Author of several articles and books on matters of architectural and urban theory, he  participated to various editions of the Milano Triennale and of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, where he has been the curator of the Italian Pavilion in 2014. He has been the chairman of the jury of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies Award 2015. Together with his studio CZA he has designed and realized several projects, among which the ex-Junghans factory site in Venice, the ex-Alfa Romeo-Portello Nord area and of the Corte Verde in Milano, the Keski Pasila master plan in Helsinki, the Car Museum and the Nuvola Lavazza in Turin, the Salewa HQ in Bozen.