Bio
Carlo Alberto Redi is an Academician of the Lincei, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi, former Professor of Zoology at Università degli Studi di Pavia, honorary member of the Genetic Society of Chile. He conducts research in functional genomics and genetic reprogramming. With Manuela Monti he published DNA. Life in three billion letters, (Carocci, 2019), Preparing for the future. Chronicles from the life sciences (Il Mulino, 2022), Social genomics (Carocci, 2025).
Manuela Monti is Associate Professor of Human Histology and Embryology at Università degli Studi di Pavia. She conducts research on stem cell differentiation and oogenesis in collaboration with research institutes in the USA and Japan. She is the author of several popular science essays, including Social Genomics, with Carlo Alberto Redi (Carocci, 2025).
Gabriel Fontana is a designer known for his unique approach to social design, focusing on reshaping society by creating new sports games tailored for today’s world. His work has received international acclaim within the realms of education, culture, and the sports industry.
His games have been played in schools across Europe, and presented at Paris Olympic Games 2024, at Nike World Headquarters (US) and in renowned museums such as MoMA (US), Het Nieuwe Instituut (NL) and Taiwan Design Museum (TW). This year, Gabriel is leading the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale as a main exhibitor, where his project Sidelined explores sport as a tool for imagining new modes of togetherness.
Raumlaborberlin is an experimental architectural practice and a collective of 9 trained architects. They work at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention, addressing city and urban renewal as a process. They love difficult urban locations – places torn between different systems, time periods or planning ideologies, abandoned, left over, or just in transition – trusting the untapped potential which they try to activate. This approach opens new perspectives for alternative usage patterns, collective ideals, urban diversity and difference.
Their design process includes interdisciplinary experts, as well as residents with their deep local knowledge about history, fears, desires, existential needs and deficits that exist like an invisible network over every spatial situation. By forging active alliances between local actors and external experts, Raumlaborberlin discovers new areas of action and opens new fields of experimentation.
Valeria Margherita Mosca is a cultural anthropologist specialised in ethnobotany, an environmentalist, and a hiking guide in foraging, environmental exploration and forest bathing. In 2010 she founded Wood*ing – wild food lab, the most important research laboratory on the use of wild food for human nutrition and forge of projects for the protection of biodiversity and cooperation with the environment.
Over the years she has become a consultant to important realities linked to sustainability, protection and cooperation with the environment and a speaker at research institutes such as UC Davis – University of California, Politecnico di Milano, Università Statale di Milano, Basque Culinary Center, The World’s 50 best, TedX, Legambiente, Ersaf and many others.
In 2020, she was included in the prestigious list of the 50 most influential women in the world in the field of sustainable food, published by Corriere della Sera. She writes for numerous magazines on travel, exploration, ethnobotany, anthropology and sustainability and has published five books as an author for major Italian publishers (Mondadori, Giunti, Rizzoli).
IED is an international Group, the largest Higher Education Network in the creative field to have maintained a global outlook and a deeply Italian cultural matrix, since 1966. IED is a network that spanning with 11 campuses over 3 countries, Italy, Spain and Brazil. In Italy IED works through the parent company. In 2022 it was transformed into a Benefit Company, in order to formalize a positive impact on society and on the planet. IED is an inclusive, transdisciplinary school that uses design as a universal language for change.
Every year, IED launches innovative educational projects in the fields of study of Design, Fashion, Communication and Management, Film, Arts and Restoration and Visual Arts, developing forms of learning and new models for interpreting the future.
The IED Group’s educational offer includes Undergraduate courses, Postgraduate courses and Lifelong Learning courses. IED relies on a network of more than 3.000 lecturers, active in their respective fields of reference, with whom it collaborates continuously to ensure the perfect performance of the training activities of its locations.
