Marco Casamonti graduated in 1990 from the University of Florence.

Since 1997, he has been the editor-in-chief of the international architecture magazine Area published by Tecniche Nuove Group.

In 1988, he founded the architectural and design office Archea together with Laura Andreini, Silvia Fabi and Giovanni Polazzi. Today Archea is an architectural and design office where more than 80 architects are operating in the Florence, Rome and Milan branches. The founding partners were joined in 1999 by Silvia Fabi, who coordinates the design activities of the architecture practice. Also thanks to the Partner design firms located in Beijing, Dubai and San Paolo, Archea has so far achieved architecture, design, Interior design and graphic design works all over the world. The interests and research activities of the firm range from the landscape to the city, from buildings to design. Even if the focus is on architecture, the projects vary from graphic design to publishing – through the direction and editorship of the international review of architecture “Area” – from exhibitions to applied research. The complementariness of the various activities focused on the design process with regard to different project scales open up a constant critical reflection on the issues of architectural construction.

Each partner, besides his or her research in the field of design, conducts research at the at the Architecture Faculty of the University of Genoa, where architect Marco Casamonti has been Full Professor of Architectural and Urban Planning since 2001, carrying out intensive research and critical analysis on architecture themes, publishing essays and papers and holding conferences and lectures.

In the course of the years, Archea has been invited to prestigious national and international competitions and has won numerous international recognitions and has participated, with their built works, in several editions of the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Among the main works of Archea Associati: the Public Library in Nembro (Bergamo), the enlargement and renovation of the Perfetti Van Melle site in Lainate near Milan, the Antinori Winery in San Casciano Val di Pesa (Florence), the Yanqing Expo Grape near Beijing, the Li Ling World Ceramic Art City in China, the Colle Loreto residential complex in Lugano, Switzerland, and the renovation and transformation of the former Magazzino Vini in Trieste where Eataly is hosted, the renovation and refurbishment of La Valletta Central Market in Malta. Under construction among others are the Forevregreen Tower and the Albanian National Stadium both in Tirana, Albania; the Changri-La Winery in Penglai (China).

Franco Collavino is Managing Director of Udinese Calcio.

He began working for the Club in 1998 as Youth Sector Secretary, in 2001 he became First Team Secretary and six years later, in 2007, he was appointed as the Club’s General Secretary.

Since 2010 he has been a member of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of Udinese Calcio.

Marcello Coppa is Managing partner of GELLIFY and in charge of Innovation Advisory and Interactive business units, dealing with the innovation process and the design and development of innovation projects. After a Master of Science in Communication & Economics at USI University of Lugano, he gained experience with Italian and global companies. His approach to consulting is aimed at delivering meaningful innovation.

Azzurra Lucignani has built a wide experience in the automotive industry, working within the marketing department of international brands such as Chrysler, Fiat and KIA.

She has joined Renault Italia in 2016 as Dacia Brand Manager. Since March 1^st 2019, she has been appointed as Advertising Digital & CRM Manager.

Gianluca Pavanello is the CEO of Macron spa, an Italy-based European company operating in the Technical Sportswear sector.

Mr Pavanello joined Macron spa in 2004 as Chief Executive Officer. Under his management, Macron turnover has grown from 10,5 M€ in 2004 to 97,8 M€ in 2018.

Prior to joining Macron spa, Mr Pavanello was Manager in the Milan office of McKinsey&Company, where he worked since January 1999. In McKinsey, he worked mainly in the Energy and Consumer Goods Industries.

Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked in the Corporate Finance division of an Italian Merchant Bank and before as financial controller for a “white goods” Company in London.

In 1998 Gianluca Pavanello got his Master of Business Administration at “SDA Bocconi” (Milan, Italy) and in 1994 received a degree in Economics at “Università degli Studi di Bologna” (Bologna, Italy).

Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Belfast. Previously he held a chair in Economic Sociology at Lancaster University. He has been a visiting Professor at the UCLA, UC Berkeley and the University of Bologna and has authored 14 books including of Skilled Workers in the Class Structure; Class, Power and Technology; Social Change and Economic Life in Britain and Children of International Migrants in Europe. He has a longstanding interest in the sociology of sport and has published articles in English and Italian that have compared the impact of stadia on local economic development and also the role of affective factors in the changing behaviour of football supporters. In 2013 he published an article in the EJSS on ‘Football, Nationalism and Globalization: a Comparison of England and Italy between 1930 and 2010’.