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 Monica Amari, AR.ME.S president

Paolo Nepoti, AR.ME.S scientific director

Shantena / Augusto Sabbadini


Giuseppe Maria Longoni, Professor of Modern History, University of Milano

Paola Briata, researcher on the timing of urban and land policies

Ludovica Manusardi Carlesi, scientific journalist

Nicolò Leotta, Visual Sociology and Urban Tourism Professor,
University of Milano Bicocca,

Fara Molinari, Elisa Storace


Ludovico Pasini, Federico Ramponi (Premiata Fabbrica di Idee)


Olga Enova


Sarah Dominique Orlandi, Artebi - progetti e consulenza per la didattica attiva

Gaia Milani, DTRH



Monica Amari, AR.ME.S. president
Monica Amari has devoted years to cultural projects and policies. Ms Amari's
activities do not only revolve around research and teaching; she also organises exhibitions, seminars and lectures and is advisor in public institutions. She developed courses to help reinforce company cultural assets and collaborated with the Università La Sapienza in Rome, for the Apollo educational project.
Ms Amari was member of the Committee of Cultural Heritage in Lombardia and
of the Scientific Committee for entrepreneurial culture.
In 1997 she published "Company Museums" ( 2nd edition 2001), released by
Franco Angeli, and in 1999 " Industrial Tourism Guide ", released by Electa.
Among her most recent titles: A changing world: company museums in Italy in
"Manual of entrepreneurial Museology", published by Rubattino (2003), Style
in Power in "Companies in the Milan Stock Market from 1861 to 2000"
published by Libri Scheiwiller (2002).
Ma Amari is founding member and president of the
AR.ME.S - Art, Media, Science - Association
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www.armes-mi.it


Paolo Nepoti, AR.ME.S scientific director
Paolo Nepoti is president of AMP - Association for Public Mediation - and scientific director of AR.ME.S. -Art, Media Science.
With Stefano Baia Curioni he was curator of "The evaluation of cultural projects", Egea, Milano 2004. Mr Nepoti is psychotherapist in Milano
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Giuseppe Maria Longoni
Professor of Modern History at the University of Milano
Giuseppe Maria Longoni, having taught at high school for many years, now teaches Modern History at the Department of Social and Institutional History at the University in Milano. He analyses economical, social and trade unionist phenomena in modern times, in particular of the Lombard area.
Mr. Longoni is author of numerous articles and essays published in history magazines and of various books as A city of work (Cappelli 1987), Trade Fairs in the History of Milano (Motta 1987), The Art of Hat Makers, (Archivio del lavoro 2001). He writes for periodicals and newspapers as "Il Giorno" and "Corriere della sera"
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Paola Briata
Researcher on the timing of land and urban policies
Paola Briata, architect, is researcher in Land Management and Public Policies. Since 1998 Ms. Briata  has been free lance researcher on urban and land policies; she collaborates with the Department of Achitecture and Planning at the Politecnico in Milano. In Great Britain, Ms. Briata was involved in projects of urban regeneration, specifically analysing cultural and land policies in multiethnic environments.
In Italy she took part in numerous researches on local development, housing and commercial policies, mostly in Lombard contexts.
Ms. Briata covers didactic roles at the Politecnico in Milano in Prof. Luigi Mazza's "Urbanism" corse,  Prof. Gabriele Pasqui's "Urban Management" course and in the "Manager of Development Policies and Programmes" Master. She is curator of Governing the Crisis. Work and Development Policies in the Locate Triulzi Saiwa case, Angeli, Milano, 2004 and co-author of Beneath the same ceiling.
Facts and stories of the building coop in Lampugnano, MB, Milano, 2004
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Ludovica Manusardi Carlesi, scientific journalist
Degree in Nuclear Physics at the University of Milano with a dissertation on cyclotron. Researcher, physics professor and publicist since 1992.
Scientific journalist, Ms Carlesi collaborates with: Il Giornale, l'Avvenire, il Sole-24 Ore, Le Scienze, Il Giornale di Brescia, L'Impresa.
For the third consecutive year, curator of the Science Agenda, published by Scheiwiller.
Professor of the Science Divulgation Master at the Applied Physics Institute, University of Milano.
Privileged contacts with researchers, universities and the leading institutions of technological innovation: Enea, CNR , INFN, ASI, CERN; Enel ,Assolombarda, Aem, Eniricerche. Detailed knowledge on issues concerning energy, astronomy, astrophysics, biotechnologies, nuclear physics, geophysics, medical information technology, environment.
President of the Leonardo da Vinci Science Museum Friends Association, since July 2004.
Member of the Porta Vercellina Rotary Club, Milano since 1998
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Nicolò Leotta
Professor of Visual Sociology and Urban Tourism,
University of Milano Bicocca

Born in Messina 23/08/1953

June 1994- 2004: with the scientific supervision of Prof. G. Martinetti, Mr Leotta is curator of the Urban Sociology video cassette course produced by C.T.U. (Centre of Learning Technologies) of the University of Milano. In collaboration with C.T.U. he runs "MOEBIUS: Project for a virtual campus". The project intends to explore the ways in which Visual Sociology can help study cities and how this can become material for a series of"Distance Learning" seminars. Mr. Leotta collaborates with the Visual Sociology Lab at the Sociology Faculty of the University of Milano-Bicocca and with the EUREX Visual Lab - on line European Urban Sociology course coordinated by Prof. Yuri Kazepov of the University of Urbino. Scholar of Urban Sociology at the Sociology Faculty of the University of Milano - Bicocca.
Since 2001 professor of Environment Sociology: Urban Tourism and Visual Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Milano - Bicocca.
Mr. Leotta is recording a 12 video cassette course for Urban Tourism and Visual Sociology for NETTUNO Network for Ovunque University.

* Leotta N, Photometropolis. Visual Sociology of cities,
Le Vespe, Milano-Pescara, 2000. (cd-rom attached).
* Leotta N. (curator), The birth of a new university:
Milano-Bicocca, Skirà, Ginevra-Milano, 2002.
* Leotta N., Virtual Mediterranean Tours, CUEM, Milano 2003.
(cd-rom attached)
* Leotta N., Travel moments, observation moments. A visual approach to urban
tourism, Milano (in print)
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email: nicolo.leotta@unimib.it


Elisa Storace
Graduated in History of Art at the University of Torino, Ms Storace has collaborated with various newspapers, artists and cultural organizations in the field of contemporary art and museology.
At the moment she is researcher on a grant at the Adi Foundation for Italian Design
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Ludovico Pasini (Premiata Fabbrica di Idee)

He attended the politecnico in Milano.
Mr Pasini, strong of his creative and planning capacities acquired in a decade spent on projects and industrial design, starts working in the field of didactic games.
He is partner of the Premiata Fabbrica delle Idee with which he has been collaborating since 2002
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email: ludovico@giochiperlaformazione.com


Federico Ramponi (Premiata Fabbrica di Idee)
Graduated in Industrial Design at the Politecnico in Milano in 2001.
With a past as interior designer, industrial products designer and technical supervisor, Mr Ramponi now works to apply games in the development and management of human resources. He also collaborates, with this scope, with the second year Industrial Design Lab at the Politecnico.
Sinnce 2004 he is partner of the Premiata Fabbrica di Idee with which he has been collaborating since 2002
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email: federico@giochiperlaformazione.com


Sarah Dominique Orlandi,
Artebi - projects and counselling in active didactics
Born in Australia in 1971 Ms. Orlandi graduated at the Univesity of Milano in Modern Literature, with a specialisation in History of Art. From 1993 she worked in the organisation of events and cultural projects.
Since 2000 she is entirely dedicated to Didactics, with projects in ancient and contemporary art, architecture, design, teaching show business (theatre and dance), web didactics. (Educated at the Centre Gorge Pompidou in Paris with a  Master at IC.COM Institut de la culture, de la communication et du managment - Paris).

Recent projects:
Didactic consultant for the video of the Region "Cucinismo 2004".
In charge of the Architecture didactic project for the pubblication of Metamorph, for the Biennale di Venezia 2004, published by Marsilio.
Teaching design consultant for the Kid-a/lab project.
Author of web didactics for the www.Kid-a.it network (Apri la porta 2003 - Fumetto 2004 - Fototag 2004).
Author of the project - journey Observing Art for Milano Brera Picture Gallery, 2003
In charge of supervising and programming the project "Think, Act, Play Ubuntu" 2000.
Lab activity promoter at the Brera Picture Gallery, the Scala Museum, the Triennale in Milano, L'Umanitaria, excellency commendations from the Orsoline, and other public and private schools in Lombardia.
Contemporary dance and Plastic Arts trainer since 1994.
She has a past as dancer and performer
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Zetalab.com
Visual Communication lab
ZetaLab develops highly creative communication strategies: systemised images,
publishing projects and video production.
The lab seeks to enhance the relation between companies and consumers, strongly believing in the competitive advantage of efficacious and correct communication.
A constant analysis of the international scenario and exploration of visual languages,
an interdisciplinary approach in devising strategies assure the excellency of the Lab's projects.

Zetalab plans and produces:
* Visual identity (brand design, packaging, systemised image, publishing projects)
* Communication strategies (format, events, guerrilla marketing, brand and product positioning)
* Videos (spots, billboard, corporate videos)
* Special communication projects (high visibility projects, artistic projects
)

www.zetalab.com


Fabio Carnino

With a degree in Industrial Design (2003) a the Politecnico in Torino, Mr. Carnino collaborates with Forcolini.Lab in the multimedia division.
His activities of web site design, presentation cd-roms and  multimedia communication include projects for:
Afterhours (www.afterhours.it), Airon (www.airon.it), Bianchi Cuscinetti (www.bianchicuscinetti.it), Cassina (www.cassina.it), Clou (www.clouonline.it), Cristina Donà (www.cristinadona.it), Mescal (www.mescal.it), Pensiero Innovativo (www.pensieroinnovativo.it), the Italian version of the web site for independent film producer Troma (www.tromaitalia.it).
With the artist Mao, he worked on projects for "LaBaseWeb" (www.labaseweb.it) & "CortoCorto" (www.cortocorto.it).
The Troma Italia web site  was listed in the 2004 ADI Design Index as one of the best projects in the "Web graphics and Kinetic Art" category.
The Cassina web site was listed in the 2003 ADI Design Index as one of the best projects in the "Web Graphics and Kinetic Art" category.
In 2002 he supervised the exhibition "Design in Italy" for La Triennale di Milano, at the Guangdong Museum of Art, in Guangzhou, Cina
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email: 4004@katamail.com


Mariagrazia Tagliabue
Mariagrazia Tagliabue worked as translator and researcher in the research and development division of counselling companies.
Since 2003 she is dedicated to Marketing and Communication in no-profit and cultural fields.
Ms. Tagliabue organised the XXIX ATEE Conference (Association Teachers Education in Europe) collaborating with the Pedagogy Department of the Università Cattolica in Milano and the III edition of the Festa dell'Europa, sponsored by the Regione Lombardia Authority for Education and  by the Milanese branches of the European Parliameny and the European Commission.
For publisher Franco Angeli Editore she was curator of "Corea del Sud" (1997) e "Ungheria" (1998) for their "Discovering the World" catalogue
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