M.Sc, Architect, Urban Planner and Landscape Architect based in Brasilia, Brazil, graduated in Sustainable Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. He is interested in the future of architecture as shaped by innovation-driven technological achievements, as well as the classical language of architecture. He is the founder of Lucas Calixto Arquitetura and Co-founder of INTBAU Brazil - an organization aimed to protect and foster traditional expressions of architecture embedded with historical significance.

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Exploring Fog Harvesting in Europe: Characteristics and Guidelines For A Sustainable City Model

M.Sc Architect, based in Ancona (Italy) she is interested in material and technological innovation in the fields of sustainable architecture and urban environment. She graduated in Progettazione Tecnologica e Ambientale, with a double degree at Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino. She obtained a Diploma at Alta Scuola Politecnica, which combines in-depth technical knowledge with interdisciplinary skills through advanced multidisciplinary projects. 

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Exploring Fog Harvesting in Europe: Characteristics and Guidelines For A Sustainable City Model

This is Azadeh Razzagh Shoar, master student of OCAD University (Toronto) in Design for Health program and a BA holder in Industrial Design from The Art University (Tehran). I am a minimalist, product and life style designer and also a design researcher. ‎The area of my studies are mostly on the consumerist society and in general consumption. Moreover my future studies will be focused on sustainability and its relation with design.

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Toward Sustainable Cities Through Futuristic Design Model: A Concumeristic Society Perspective

Maria Canepa(Genoa, 1985), architect, PhD (2016) in Architecture (field: architecture technology) at Department Architecture and Design, University of Genoa, Italy. She graduated with honours from the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa in 2011.   since 2011 she carries out research and collaborates with Prof. Magliocco in teaching. Since 2012 she has been working as an architect in collaboration with Axèstudio and she is secretary of the Provincial Section of Genoa of the “Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura”. Author for Mimesis Edizioni.

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Artistic craftsmanship vs degradation risk of historical areas

Adriano Magliocco (Venezia, 1966), architect, PhD (1998) in technology of Architecture and Environment at Milan Polytechnic, Italy. Full Professor in Technology of Architecture at the Department Architecture and Design where he is Deputy Head, University of Genoa, Italy. He has been Coordinator of Master program in Architecture from November 2013 to November 2016 and Coordinator of PhD Program in Architecture years 2012-2015. Reference research field is environmental sustainability at different scales; results have been reported in several publications, conferences, seminars and training courses. Main topics: near zero energy buildings, strategic environmental assessment, building environmental assessment, eco-design, strategic environmental assessment in urban areas.

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Artistic craftsmanship vs degradation risk of historical areas

Fernando Rafael Calzadilla Sánchez. He’s studying Industrial Design in UAM Azcapotzalco. He was made projects with a social focus throught his career and he have exposed his work in “Museo Franz Mayer” by “Fundación GIN” and he participated in the First Interuniversity Design Workshop in Mexico City, in 2018. Previously, he have worked for the “Centro de Cultura Digital” as cultural promoter and he worked in forniture conceptualization at Artless Design in 2018. Actually, he’s studying the 9th quarter of Industrial Design Career.

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Utstal: Heading Hearts and joining communities

He holds a master in industrial design at the UNAM and is part of the Medialabmx.org team.

Works with sound in it’s different manifestations , through participating in many projects as musician designer, or sound engineer. He has also collaborated in many comunitary media projects related to sound art and open source technology.

He has worked independently giving workshops related to the use of free technological tools applied to artistic projects. In this context he has presented his work in places such as “Museo de Arte Moderno de Sao Paulo”, “CCJ Sao Paulo” or “Festival Fábrica de Fallas” in Buenos Aires and Santiago, MAM-MX, Centro de Cultura Digital MX.

As musician he has collaborated with many artist , including: Marcelo Armani (Brasil), Tomás Tello (Perú), Panetone (Brasil), Constanza Piña (Chile), Marcela Armas or Gilberto Esparza (México). He is also co-founder of SUDEX, a platform for exchange and collaboration in different independent artistic projects arround south américa.

He has organized the “Fábrica de Fallas” Festival (Santiago), co-organized the “Encuentro Internacional de Prácticas Sonoras: FRICCIONES” (January 2013, Santiago), he has also worked with sound landscapes producing the collective record “Ferias libres: música y paisajes sonoros” (Jacobino Discos, 2009)

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Collectivization of Design and Digital Manufacturing: Social Laboratories

Nina Costa is a researcher and designer with a background in product design and a PhD in leaders for technological industries, MIT-Portugal program. She undertook her initial studies at the University of Aveiro, and continued at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal. Her work focused on integrating Product-Service Systems (PSS) design approach with Service Design, supporting multidisciplinary teams and companies to co-create value with their customers and design more integrated solutions. Throughout her career, she worked in close collaboration with manufacturing and service industry, in particular, in the energy and laboratory sectors. Additionally she participated and published her work in conferences including IPDMC, QUIS and ServDes, and published an article in a leading international scientific journal in the field of Design (Design Studies). She was also invited to present her work at FEUP on multiple occasions and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She contributed to the management of the Service Design for Innovation Network (SDIN) H2020 project, and is currently developing her research at the intersection of user experience and circular economy in Aveiro.

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#ECOTERACY, designing an info inclusive and universal language of sustainability

Professor Dilys Williams FRSA is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion. Dilys’ work explores fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural elements to contribute to sustainability in and through its artistic, business and educational practices.

Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and holding a UAL professorship in Fashion Design for Sustainability, Dilys publishes widely on fashion and sustainability in peer reviewed academic journals and published books.  Dilys’ work draws on extensive experience in lead womenswear designer roles for international collections, including Katharine Hamnett, Liberty and Whistles. This industry experience is complimented by a longstanding internationally recognised teaching and research portfolio focused on the development of sustainability centred design practices, based on principles of holism, participation and transformation design.

Current change-making engagement in wider societal and governmental arenas includes acting as a key witness in the UK Environmental Audit Commission enquiry into fashion and sustainability, her contribution cited in its recent report, Fixing Fashion. She is a member of theUNFCCC Global Climate Action in Fashionand sits on advisory committees for Positive Luxury and the Global Fashion Agenda. Her place on the Evening Standard’s London’s Progress 1000 list in 2015, 2016 and 2017 evidences the public and academic influence of her work alongside regular appearances on broadcast television, radio and magazines including recent appearances on BBC World, Sky News, Radio 4, WWD, the Gentlewoman and Elle magazine.

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Fashion Design for Sustainability: a framework for participatory practice

I was born in Mexico City on July 2, 1986. In 2004 I entered the Bachelor of Industrial Design at Universidad Iberoamericana, finishing in 2008. For 5 years I was part of the team of Lighteam S.C., where I worked as project designer in residential, commercial, heritage and historical buildings. In 2011, I studied the specialty in Architectural Lighting, Architecture Division, UNAM, in order to upgrade my knowledge in this area.

Later on in 2013 I got into Industrial Design Master at UNAM, in the area of ​​technology. I obtained the degree with the thesis "Technological innovation for the agro-ecological production chinampera. Projects of restoration and ecological conservation of Xochimilco". My expectation towards my professional practice is to find ways to exercise design as a discipline capable of developing strategies, which might be performed regarding the current socio-environmental issues, approaching an environmental and cultural sustainability. Currently I work as a professor at the Universidad Panamericana.

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The social construction of environmental crisis and reflections on the sustainability debate