Contributors

Musician, producer, songwriter and sound engineer, guitarist and founder of Subsonica, one of the most important bands in Italian music of recent decades. Raised in the Turin underground scene of the 1980s, he has collaborated as producer and songwriter with artists including Afterhours, Almamegretta, Mina and Africa Unite — the last a band he was part of before founding Subsonica in 1996 together with Samuel Romano. He currently pursues several parallel projects, including Deproducers, dedicated to the musical transposition of science, and has served as president and co-director of the Traffic Torino Free Festival.

Edicola 518 is the rebel newsstand for lovers of fine paper. We, the artists of Emergenze, founded it on 1 June 2016 on the site of a historic newsagent’s in Perugia, and have made it a bookshop without equal anywhere in the world. Its selection offers a range unique in Italy of independent magazines, artists’ books, anarchist ephemera, fanzines and self-produced works under our own publishing imprint, Emergenze Publishing. We have defined the space of Edicola 518 as four square metres of infinite space.

Mauro Magatti is a sociologist and economist. His research focuses on the relationship between economy and society, with particular attention to the transformation of contemporary capitalism, understood as a historical-social construct in which techno-economic, institutional and cultural dimensions interact. Following the influence of his mentors — including Zygmunt Bauman, Luc Boltanski and Bernard Stiegler — he has investigated the relationship between individual experience and major economic, technological and social transformations, developing in recent years, together with other scholars, the paradigm of social generativity.

Director of photography for more than ten years in film, advertising and documentary production, collaborating with brands such as Giorgio Armani, Lavazza and Universal Music Italia. In 2021, during lockdown, he began a path of artistic experimentation, creating architectural installations built with Kapla wooden building blocks, combining two long-standing passions: wood and architecture. His works, built live in front of audiences as genuine performances, are eventually dismantled or demolished in a collective event, forming a cycle of construction and deconstruction that reflects on the transience of beauty. In 2019 he created his first permanent installation, La Stanza Magica, at Casa Bossi (Novara), and in 2022 he launched the Wood Arc project. Since 2023 he has collaborated with the Salvatori brand, experimenting for the first time with natural stone — Carrara marble, Pietra d’Avola, Grigio Versilia — to create permanent installation works.

A professional journalist since 2003, Maria Soave has worked with Il Messaggero and Il Sole 24 Ore — covering the economies of Umbria, the Marche and Tuscany — and with the RCS MediaGroup. In 2004 she joined Rai, initially at Tg3, before moving to Tg1, where she served as head of the domestic affairs desk and presented various editions of the news bulletin over the years, from the late-night to the early-evening and 1:30pm slots. In 2009 she moved from the economics desk to the political desk, remaining there until 2023. Since September 2023 she has presented Tg1 Mattina, while since 2022 she has co-hosted Unomattina Estate on Rai1 with Massimiliano Ossini. Since 2024 she has also presented Agorà Estate on Rai3, a programme dedicated to the economy, employment and housing.