Raul de la Cerda (1988), Mexican industrial designer. Trained as a designer in Mexico, Paris and Madrid, looking to have a proper understanding of design, to produce new proposals in products and spaces, always starting from a concept without forgetting his identity, his context and the essence of each project. In 2012, he became independent and started a design firm with his name, Raul de la Cerda. He has won several awards, like the first place in the category of "utilitarian object" in the National Silver Price "Hugo Salinas Price 2015". He has been in several exhibitions at fairs and museums like Desgin Week Mexico, Abieto Mexicano de Diseño, Salone del Mobile (Milan), Salone Satellite (Milan), Cervantes Academy (Madrid), Zona Maco (Mexico), The London Design Festival (London), The Franz Mayer Museum (Mexico), among others. His inspiration is life, the continuous curiosity about things, travel, art, his family, the people around him, his country; Mexico, his history and the passion and the desire to have to do things different.

Bianca Felicori is a PhD candidate at UCLouvain with a research Fellow (ASP - Aspirant) fellowship of the Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS. Together with Professor Beatrice Lampariello she carries out her research with the aim of demonstrating the confluence of artistic and architectural experimentation born in Europe and America between the 1960s and 1970s. She graduated at the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on history of architecture dedicated to the intersection of architectural and artistic thought between 1965 and 1976, a topic read in relation to the publications of the critic Germano Celant in the magazine “Casabella”. She has curated exhibitions and cultural programs collaborating with institutions such as Triennale (Milano, Italy) and she wrote for magazines such as “Domus” and “AD”. She recently published the book Forgotten Architecture (Nero Editions 2022).

Architect and designer

Leticia Wouk Almino is a Brazilian architect based in New York, NY. She has lived in Brasília, Washington, San Francisco, Lisbon, London, and again in the Brazilian capital before moving to the United States for her studies. She most recently completed her Masters in Architecture at Yale University in New Haven, CT and is currently working at Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York. She draws her inspiration from the world of cinema, as she is interested in exploring the interstice between architecture and fiction, real and imaginary, public and private space. She is looking to publish her book, Capital Urbanism, a comparative study of public space in four capital cities in Portugal and Brazil.

Eleonora Orlandi is passionate about feeling the beauty of spaces. She is interested in inspiring and stimulating people to deeply resonate inside dimentions/atmospheres/ambiences/places. Architecture creates spaces in which we live our lives, often without even being conscious of it and she wants spaces to affect and move people. Born in Milano, in Italy, Eleonora Orlandi is a designer architect currently based in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Polytechnic of Milano and received her Master degree in Architecture from the M.Arch II program at SCI-Arc, her master thesis won the SCI-Arc Thesis Award . She has international study experiences in liberal arts at Stanford Univeristy in California, Brown University in Rhode Island and at Central Saint Martins in London, furthermore she was selected for the exchange program at UMPRUM in Prague. Her work has been exhibited in Hauser & Wirth, Milano Design Week, and Venice Biennale. Her working experience crosses over architecture, stage design and event design. Eleonora is currently working for Greg Lynn as a Junior Architect at Greg Lynn Form office in Los Angeles, California.