Nina Bassoli

Nina Bassoli (1983), architect, researcher and curator, PhD at the IUAV University of Venice, graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan, is curator for Architecture, Urban Regeneration and Cities at Triennale Milano.

The themes of crisis, ruin and waiting spaces are at the centre of her academical research, aimed at a phenomenological reading of architecture as an event. In addition to her research, she is also involved in an intense editorial and curatorial activity, seeing exhibitions and magazines as useful complements for verifying the effects of architecture on the city and on socio-spatial dynamics.

She published articles and essays in several international magazines and catalogues and she led lectures, conferences and workshops at several international universities, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the ETH in Zurich, the Berlin Technische Universität, the AA Summer School of Architecture, the Potsdam School of Architecture, and the Concepción Universidad in Chile, among others, and, as ambassador for the Italian Design Day, she presented her work in the Dominican Republic and in Brazil.

She has been teaching Architecture and Landscape design at the Polytechnic University of Milan since 2015 and at the UTPL in Loja, Ecuador, Ecuador, as a visiting professor, and at the Faculty of Design and Arts at the Free University of Bolzano, where she also worked as a research fellow on the project Architecture in the Age of Display, an investigation into architecture exhibitions over the last twenty years.

Author of several essays, catalogues and books, since 2008 she is a member of the editorial board of Lotus International. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Pirelli HangarBicocca Foundation and of the Cultural Board of the Architects Chamber of Milan. Among the exhibitions and events she has curated are: the edition 2025, 2024 and 2023 of the international festival of architecture Milano Arch Week; Cities, Triennale Milano 2025, in the context of the 24th International Exhibition of Triennale Milano; Gae Aulenti (1927-2012), Triennale Milano 2024, with Giovanni Agosti and Nina Artioli; Home Sweet Home, Triennale Milano 2023; the section dedicated to Alessandro Mendini as part of the exhibition Marco Zanuso and Alessandro Mendini. Design and Architecture, ADI Design Museum 2022, with Pierluigi Nicolin and Gaia Piccarolo; ADI. Take Your Seat on the occasion of Supersalone 2022; Reconstructions. Architecture, City and Landscape in the Age of Destruction, Triennale Milano 2018, with Alberto Ferlenga; the 2017 Turin Architecture Festival, with Davide Tommaso Ferrando; Architecture as Art at Pirelli HangarBicocca and City after the City. Street Art as part of the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano in 2016. She collaborated with Cino Zucchi on the curation of the Italian Pavilion Innesti/Grafting at the 14th Venice Biennale and with Pierluigi Nicolin on the 6th edition of the Triennale Design Museum Design. The syndrome of Influence.

She collaborates with various research and design groups, regularly participating in projects and competitions. She coordinated the participatory redevelopment of La Piana in Piazzale Fabio Chiesa in Milan and participated in the juries of various awards and competitions, including the Italian Architecture Award held by Triennale Milano and MAXXI Roma 2025, 2024, 2023 an 2022, the competition for the contraction of the new Lorenteggio Library in Milan and the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Architecture Film Award at the Milan Film Festival.

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), based in New York City. The firm design at a range of scales, from city plans to individual buildings. Recent projects include the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, completed in 2023, and the ongoing redesign of New York’s Penn Station, with HOK.

Chakrabarti is the author of two books: The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy, published last year by Princeton University Press, and A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America, published by Metropolis Books in 2013. In 2025 he was awarded the Edmund N Bacon Urban Design Award in recognition of his visionary approach to urbanism, commitment to ecological and equitable design, and leadership in shaping the built environment.

Dennis Pohl

Dennis Pohl is director of the Flanders Architecture Institute. As a postdoctoral researcher, he was a member of the Design, Data and Society group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and worked as research coordinator at The New Open.

He frequently publishes on the relationship between energy, politics and architecture in the post-war era. In his recent book Building Carbon Europe (Sternberg Press, 2023), he analyses how architectural design influenced political planning in post-war Europe.

Dennis was a research associate at the DFG research group Knowledge in the Arts at the University of the Arts in Berlin (2015-2018), DAAD Fellow at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York (2018) and received a fellowship for the LOEWE project Architectures of Order at Goethe University Frankfurt (2022).

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