Contributors

Architect and graphic designer, Raul Pantaleo is co-founder and senior partner of the Venice-based practice TAMassociati, specialising in impact design and sustainable design in the social and humanitarian sphere. Since 2004 he has collaborated with the NGO Emergency, designing hospital facilities in numerous countries including Sudan, Sierra Leone, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan and Uganda — among them the “Salam” cardiac surgery centre in Khartoum, awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013. With TAMassociati he has received numerous international awards, including the Curry Stone Design Prize (2013), the Zumtobel Group Award (2014) and the title of Best Italian Architect of the Year (2014). In 2016 he was a member of the curatorial team for the Italian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and a tutor for the G124 working group led by Renzo Piano at the Senate of the Republic. Since 2019 he has been a contract professor of Architectural Composition at the University of Trieste. Together with Marta Gerardi, he is also the author of several volumes combining architecture, comics and narrative reportage, including Architetture resistenti (Becco Giallo, 2013), La nave (Becco Giallo, 2024) and Architetture del noi (Elèuthera, 2025).

Andrea Margaritelli, an engineer, combines his primary role as an entrepreneur within the family business, the Margaritelli Group, with operational roles in various non-profit institutions engaged in social and cultural work. Attentive to the strong potential of an organic relationship between economics and culture, he participates actively in debate on corporate communication, territorial values and social responsibility. As President of the Fondazione Guglielmo Giordano, he is engaged in promoting design culture in Italy and abroad, through initiatives spanning the fields of art, architecture and design. From 2018 to 2026 he served as President of the National Institute of Architecture, the prestigious cultural body founded by Bruno Zevi in 1959 as a forum for the genesis and diffusion of renewed sensitivity to design in Italy. He teaches Interior Design within the Degree Course in Design of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Perugia.