Born in Ragusa in 1993, after graduating in Interior Design from the Polytechnic University of Milan, he collaborated for several years with several renowned design studios in the city. In 2017, he founded his own studio, which addresses the domestic challenges of contemporary living through adaptable and replicable products that address the practical needs of everyday life. The studio collaborates with universities, academies, institutions, companies, galleries, and private individuals.

Vincenzo Castellana works on architecture, design, and communications projects. Director of the Master's program in Strategic Design and Creative Direction at Abadir, he is an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan and previously taught the Master's program in Design Management at IULM. He received a Compasso d'Oro / Honorable Mention in the Business Research category. In 2008, he founded ADI Sicilia with Vanni Pasca, with whom he began nearly twenty years of work promoting the productive and educational values ​​of design.

Giulia Colletti is a digital content curator and ancillary activities consultant at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art. From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the curatorial board of the 19th Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d'Europe et de la Méditerranée. In 2019, she was a Visiting Lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art. She has lectured at numerous institutions and universities, including Kingston University in London; Columbia University (CAMS) in New York; La Sapienza University in Rome; IUAV in Venice; and NABA in Milan. At Abadir, she teaches History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the undergraduate degree program and Curating and the Mediterranean in the first-level master's program at Mater Matuta. Her writing has appeared in CURA, Flash Art, and OnCurating, among others.

He was born in Montescaglioso (MT), where he has lived and worked as a graphic designer since 1986. He graduated from the scenography course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He collaborated with Mario Cresci in Matera. From 1999 to 2006, he was an AIAP advisor. He teaches at the ISIA in Urbino. Since 2017, he has been a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

StudioGUM is a Ragusa-based interior design and planning studio, founded in 2009 by architects Valentina Giampiccolo and Giuseppe Minaldi. Their work exposes the essence of places through an archaeological process of subtraction, establishing ever-new rules and engaging in contemporary dialogues. StudioGUM's projects have appeared in leading Italian and international publications, including Interni magazine, Elle Décor, Vogue, and AD.

Paolo Casicci is a journalist, content curator, and design professor. After working for fifteen years for the newspaper La Repubblica, in 2019 he founded the communication studios The Design Cut and DigiTale We Share Design, through which he creates editorial content for some of the most important Italian and international design brands. With the web magazine Cieloterradesign, founded in 2015, he narrates and disseminates design culture. He writes for specialized magazines and teaches at Rome's leading universities and design academies. A member of the ADI Lazio board of directors, he believes in communication not as mere dissemination, but as a form of accomplished design to build new meaning.

An architect with a PhD in design, he is the founder and creative director of Studio Forward, an architecture and design studio whose projects range from interior design to exhibition design, retail design, communication, and physical branding. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Palermo since 2008.

A graduate of Industrial Design from the University of Palermo and Information Design from the Design Academy of Eindhoven, after her experience in the Netherlands, she returned to Sicily in 2019 and became Art Director of Studio Forward, where she is now a partner. A fervent researcher before a designer, books are her passion, which is why she has been the art director of Forward Edizioni (a side project of Studio Forward) and Topic Edizioni since 2023.

He studied architecture in Florence and Vienna. At the Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Florence, he was an assistant on several research projects and coordinated several workshops. He is an avid designer in the residential and contract sectors.

After graduating and completing his MFA at Tokyo University of Fine Arts, he joined the Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio from 1996 to 2016, working on major projects for the city of Barcelona and internationally. Since 2006, he has collaborated with architect Toyo Ito, developing projects in Europe and South America.

Massimo Siragusa is a photographer and Editorial Director of Phaos Edizioni. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of the Vatican Museums, the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the Mart in Rovereto, and the Museum of Rome in Trastevere. He has collaborated with numerous public institutions and private foundations on editorial and exhibition projects, and his corporate work has captured the identity of many of Italy's most prestigious companies. He is the author of twelve books and the winner of four World Press Photo Awards and three Sony Awards. He lives between Rome and Catania.

Giacomo Boffo is a Bologna-based designer specializing in digital, editorial, and branding design for the culture, art, and design sectors. He has collaborated with studios such as Folch e Apartamento (Barcelona) and Blanco (Reggio Emilia). He teaches at IED (Milan), the Quasar Institute (Rome), and the Abadir Academy (Catania), where he also serves as Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Visual Communication and Art Direction, as well as a Brand Design instructor.

A Communication & Marketing Manager, for twenty years he has been moving within (and beyond) the broad scope of communications: print newspapers, radio, blogs, communities and social media, online advertising, content marketing, strategy, training, and public speaking. Always without a precise map, but with a firm compass: doing to understand, not understanding to do.