FRANCESCO AIROLDI is an architect and PhD candidate at the AUID program in Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU). His doctoral thesis delves around architectural co-design methods in areas exposed to natural risk, within the context of RETURN - Italian Recovery Funds (PNRR MUR). His research interests focus on participatory processes, community-based dynamics, informal spatial transformations, and their translation into architectural and urban forms. He published scientific papers in indexed journals and participated in international conferences. He works as an academic tutor assistant in architectural design studios for third-year BSc and first-year MSc students at the Politecnico di Milano.

GINO BALDI graduated in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano in 2017 with a thesis developed in collaboration with Aires Mateus Arquitectos. He completed a PhD in Architectural Composition in 2024. Since 2025, he is Adjunct Professor in Architecture Design Studio 3 at the Politecnico di Milano. In 2021, co-founded Vacuum Atelier, an architecture and design studio focused on interventions in existing buildings and strategies for material reuse. He participated in numerous national and international workshops, conferences, and publications in institutions and organizations such as Politecnico di Milano, La Sapienza University of Rome, University of Pisa, University of Genoa, EPFL Lausanne, and CIVA Brussels.

FABRIZIA BERLINGIERI is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and a faculty member of the AUID PhD Programme at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano. From 2009 to 2019, she led the architectural firm BAS_Berlingieri Architetti Studio, operating in both national and international contexts and receiving several awards and recognitions. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (2012–2017), and a member of the Expert Team for the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Parkstad (2014–2016). She currently serves on the Board of the Competence Center for Anti-Fragile Territories at DAStU.

DUCCIO FANTONI studied at the University of Ferrara and Waseda University in Tokyo, obtaining his master’s degree in architecture in 2018, focusing on the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park. He collaborated with NASCA studio in Tokyo on regeneration projects and co-founded NOIApractice in 2020, an award-winning studio specializing in adaptive reuse. Since 2022, he has been a PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, with research titled Unscripted Architecture. The Yards of Tbilisi, which explores latent urban spaces in Tbilisi. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Free University of Tbilisi and a visiting PhD candidate at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and the Georgian Technical University.

JACOPO LEVERATTO, PhD architect, is a Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano. Focusing his research on critical spatial practices, he has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed international journals and edited volumes. Besides having published different monographs, he is an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journals “Stoa”, “ARK” and “iijournal”, and he has written on “Architectural Design”, “Area”, “Interni”, “Op.Cit.”, and “Vesper”.

LINA MALFONA is an Associate Professor in Architecture, founder and director of the research lab Polit(t)ico. An architect with a PhD and a Postdoc in Architectural and Urban Design, she pursued her research thanks to a Fulbright grant and some fellowships, among which the Visiting Scholarship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). She authored essays and books on architectural theory and criticism, and on the relationship between architectural form and urban/exurban space, among which La condizione manierista and Residentialism. Her writings and built projects have been published in architectural journals, such as “Domus”, “Log”, and “The Journal of Architecture”.

SARA ANNA SAPONE is a PhD architect, Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano. Between 2020 and 2025, she developed her doctoral research, titled Precision Wildland. Designing Railyard Marginalia with Emerging Technologies, financed by an inter-department grant, completing a six-month exchange at the Landscape Architecture section of TU Delft (Idea League). In 2023 she co-curated, together with K. Santus and S. Mundula, the book Terrarium. Earth Design: Ecology, Architecture and Landscape and the international conference Architecture Unlocks Nature.

SARA PROTASONI, PhD architect in Architectural and Urban Design, is a Full Professor of Landscape Architecture and head of the PhD program in Architectural, Urban and Interior Design (AUID), DAStU, Politecnico di Milano. She has taught at various academic institutions and coordinated international workshops and summer schools. Since 2002, she has served on the teaching boards of several doctoral programs, including the Landscape and Environment program at La Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focuses on the role of landscape architecture in urban regeneration and infrastructure design. She has published widely, collaborating with prestigious magazines such as “Rassegna” (edited by Vittorio Gregotti).

ALESSANDRO ROCCA, PhD Architect, is a Full Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at Politecnico di Milano, where he also served as Head of the AUID PhD Program (2019–2024). He has been Visiting Professor and lectured at foreign and Italian universities such as Polytech Saint Petersburg, ENSA Paris-Belleville, ENSA Lyon, ENSP Versailles, TU Delft, FAUP Porto, la Sapienza University of Rome and Iuav Venezia among others. Author and curator of several books on architecture and landscape, he has widely published in major international journals and founded the magazines “Fuoco amico” and “Syllabus”. His professional work includes urban, landscape, and architectural projects and the coordination of international design workshops.

ETTORE ROCCA is a Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Literary, Linguistic, and Philosophical Studies, Pegaso Digital University, and Affiliate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen. He taught for more than twenty years at the Department of Architecture, University of Reggio Calabria. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen. His recent book publications include L’umano e l’inumano: Filosofia dell’architettura come filosofia della natura (Carocci, 2025) and, co-authored with Peter Brandes, Isak/Ismael (Wunderbuch, 2024). His research interests include aesthetics, theory of visual arts and architecture, and ethics.

Joaquim Almeida, University of Coimbra

Gaizka Altuna Charterina, TU Berlin

Oya Atalay Franck, ZHAW

Matthias Ballestrem, TU Dortmund

João M. Barbosa Menezes de Sequeira, Universidade da Beira

Fabrizia Berlingieri, Politecnico di Milano

Andelka Bnin-Bninski, University of Belgrade

Silvia Bodei, Politecnico di Milano

Ignacio Borrego, TU Berlin

Boštjan Botas Kenda, University of Ljubljana

Marco Bovati, Politecnico di Milano

Corneel Cannaerts, KU Leuven

Ricarda Cappeller, Leibnitz Universität Hannover

Kristinas Careva, University of Zagreb

Roberto Cavallo, TU Delft

Barbara Coppetti, Politecnico di Milano

Per-Johan Dahl, University of Lund

Johan De Walsche, University of Antwerp

Esra Akin Naime, Aarhus School of Architecture

Lidia Gasperoni, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture

Maarten Gheysen, KU Leuven

Pedro Guilherme, Universidade de Évora

Stamatina Kousidi, Politecnico di Milano

Maurice Harteveld, TU Delft

Urs Hirschberg, TU Graz

Matevz Juvancic, University of Ljubljana

Thierry Lagrange, KU Leuven

Andreas Lechner, TU Graz

Jacopo Leveratto, Politecnico di Milano

Simon Maris, Hochschule Trier

Michael McGarry, Queen’s University Belfast

Clara Elena Mejia Vallejo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

Carles Muro, Politecnico di Milano

Andrea Oldani, Politecnico di Milano

Claus Peder Pedersen, Aarhus School of Architecture

Orsina Simona Pierini, Politecnico di Milano

Gennaro Postiglione, Politecnico di Milano

Sara Protasoni, Politecnico di Milano

Ignacio Requena Ruiz, ENSA Nantes

Alessandro Rocca, Politecnico di Milano

Edite Rosa, Univerdade da Beira Interior

Sascha Roesler, Università della Svizzera Italiana

Emma Rowden, Oxford Brookes University

Sofia Salema, Universidade de Évora

Yves Schoonjans, KU Leuven

Jörg Schröder, Leibnitz Universität Hannover

Markus Schwai, NTNU

Sally Stewart, Glasgow School of Art

Eli Støa, NTNU

Pier Paolo Tamburelli, TU Wien

Johan Van Den Berghe, KU Leuven

Esther Venrooij, KU Leuven

Petra Vlachynska, TU Liberec

Liselotte Vroman, KU Leuven

Boštjan Vuga, AA School of Architecture London

Tadeja Zupančič, University of Ljubljana

Joaquim Almeida, University of Coimbra

Ana Betancour, Malmö University

Silvia Bodei, Politecnico di Milano

Marco Bovati, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano

Boštjan Botas Kenda, University of Ljubljana

Riccarda Cappeller, Leibniz University Hannover

Roberto Cavallo, TU Delft

Kristinas Careva, University of Zagreb

Giulia Cazzaniga, Politecnico di Milano

Cassandra Cozza, Politecnico di Milano

Barbara Coppetti, Politecnico di Milano

Per-Johan Dahl, Lund University

Johan De Walsche, University of Antwerp

Federico Di Cosmo, Politecnico di Milano

Lidia Gasperoni, Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL)

Pedro Guilherme, Universidade de Èvora

Urs Hirschberg, TU Graz

Stamatina Kousidi, Politecnico di Milano

Thierry Lagrange, KU Leuven

Andreas Lechner, TU Graz

Fabio Lepratto, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano

Maarten Gheysen, KU Leuven

Michael McGarry, Queen’s University Belfast

Carles Muro, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano

Sonja Oliveira, University of Strathclyde

Claus Peder Pedersen, Aarhus School of Architecture

Gennaro Postiglione, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano

Sara Protasoni, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano

Alessandro Rocca, DAStU, Politecnico di Milano

Sascha Roesler, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio (USI)

Edite Rosa, University of Coimbra

Emma Rowden, Oxford Brookes University

Sofia Salema, Universidade de Èvora

Gerardo Semprebon, Politecnico di Milano

Giulia Setti, Politecnico di Milano

Jörg Schröder, Leibniz University Hannover

Markus Schwai, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Sally Stewart, The Glasgow School of Art

Pier Paolo Tamburelli, TU Wien

Valerio Tolve, Politecnico di Milano

Alisia Tognon, Politecnico di Milano

Jo Van Den Berghe, KU Leuven

Esther Venrooij, KU Leuven

Liselotte Vroman, KU Leuven

Boštjan Vuga, University of Ljubljana

Francesca Zanotto, Politecnico di Milano

Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Politecnico di Milano

Tadeja Zupančič, University of Ljubljana