Speakers

Professor Sandra Kemp combines Senior Research Fellowships at Imperial College London (ICL) and at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She works at the intersection of the arts and humanities, museum curatorship and futures research. She has worked in both universities and museums, including the Universities of Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Southampton, the Royal College of Art, the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. As Director of Research at the Royal College of Art from 2000-2008, she nurtured interdisciplinary and industry-related research programmes and their commercial exploitation in areas including art and design, material science and computer science. Over the past 4 years at the V&A and within the Department of Materials at Imperial College, and cross-College with the Dyson School of Engineering Design, she has developed cross-disciplinary futures research, teaching and exhibitions in partnership with science-based industries, government agencies and the creative and cultural sectors.

Stefano Paschina
Stefano Paschina, born in Villamar (Ca), resides in Milan, spent a long and profitable experience at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) as Managing Director. Since 2009 he has been the acting Chairman of Ludum School, the first international school, dedicated to the education of children from the age of 1 to 18, supported by the innovative teaching methods of the Design Approach.

Carmelo Di Bartolo
Since 1980 he has been conducting studies and research in the area of bionics and of design. In 1982, he established CRIED, the Research Centre of the Istituto Europeo di Design school. In 1998 he left IED and founded Design Innovation, a workshop that researches processes of advanced design. He has developed projects for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the Fiat Research Centre, Ferrari GT, Argotractors, Samsung, the World Bank, Indesit, Luxottica, Electrolux and Pirelli. He is the Scientific Director of KC Ludum School. He is an associate professor at the University of Montreal, contract professor at the IULM University in Milan and the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples and corresponding academic for Italy with the National Academy of Fine Arts in Argentina. He has worked as a contract professor at Milan Polytechnic and as Visiting Professor at the ECAL in Lausanne, the TEC in Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara and in many other international universities and research centres.

Suné is Founder & Creative Director of Rock City Foundation, Co-founder and Festival and Programme Director of the Open Design Cape Town Festival. 
Suné is a designer, educator, entrepreneur and a design activist. Not only has she taught design for over 15 years and contributed to the development of the current secondary school’s national design curriculum, Sune was a key driving force in convincing the National Department of Basic Education to acknowledge and include Design as an independent and credible subject choice, at secondary school level.
Stassen was the former editor of the biannual online publication Design>Ed; was an assistant researcher for the WDC2014 (World Design Capital 2014) bid for Cape Town and served on the advisory committee for the development of the Western Cape Provincial Innovation policy. She has also contributed to the initial development phase of the Western Cape Design Strategy and currently serves on the SABS Design Institute’s Panel of Design Experts.
Suné is regularly invited to speak at conferences and design related events. Most recently in 2016 she was the keynote speaker at the Danish Health Conference, addressing the importance of design in the health care sector.
The key motivation behind Suné’s involvement in a project is the projects ability to mobilise - driving change and transformation in its respective sectors. And should a vehicle or platform not exist, she is equally eager to kick-start a project and make it happen. Educating, empowering and developing change- makers is what drives her ongoing agenda.

Alessandro Tartaglia
During adolescence he approached the world of graffiti and street art. He studied Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Bari and then Editorial Design & Graphic Systems at the ISIA in Urbino. In 2006 he created the free bilingual magazine FF3300, addressing the theme of contamination between languages and design disciplines. In 2008, the magazine became a communication design studio. Over the next few years, he approached political communication, working first for the re-election of Nichi Vendola in Puglia (2010) and then for the communication of the Democratic Party (2012-2013). Between 2013 and 2014 he promotes and coordinates “X – A variable in search of identity” and “XYLAB” with Lucilla Fiorentino and Alessandro Balena. In 2014 he was one of the co-founders of CAST digital type foundry (along with, amongst others, Luciano Perondi, his thesis supervisor at ISIA) and in 2015, after winning the CheFare call, was one of the co-founders of La Scuola Open Source. Over time, he studied social networks, collective imagery, memetics and process design.

Lucilla Fiorentino
Her early passion for different languages and cultures has inspired her to travel, to open-mindedness and to the unexpected. Curiosity and interest for research have over the years led to experiences in many different areas: from culture management to cinema, from publishing to sharing economy to participatory design and community creation. Along this journey, she met people and organizations with her same vision, with whom - in 2015 - she co-founded The Open Source School, after winning the CheFare call. In addition to being a vegan and practicing yoga and meditation, she is interested in philosophy, anthropology and ancient cultures. She loves music, books, challenges. But above all: she loves. She likes to define herself an “interpreter of the language of dreams”.

Professor Lawrence Zeegen is Dean of the School of Design at Ravensbourne in London UK, where he leads academic departments and research in Advertising, Architecture and Interiors, Communication Design, Fashion Design and Product Design. Lawrence has taught and lectured internationally in over 20 countries. His design and illustration clients include major international newspapers, magazines, book publishers, design studios and advertising agencies. Lawrence is the author of nine published books on graphic arts, including Fifty Years of Illustration and Ladybird by Design and is contributor to numerous publications. Lawrence is a member of the UK’s Design Council Sounding Board, trustee of both the De Le Warr Pavilion and the Creative Conscious Awards and a former trustee of D&AD. Lawrence has twice been appointed to the Executive Board of ico-D, the International Council of Design.