About the festival
How can science, technology and the arts help us to imagine, explore and prototype responses to the urban challenges of post-pandemic society?
What opportunities can arise from collaboration between scientists, engineers and creatives? And what’s their impact on society?
STARTS Urban Fest explores perspectives, visions and collaboration frameworks from all over the world.
Sign up to learn, debate and be inspired by over 50 international speakers working in policy making, urbanism, design, social innovation, science, contemporary arts and much more.
Programme
Speakers
Matt Adams
Professor and Co-Founder "Blast Theory"
Alessandro Avataneo
Founder, Hypercritic
Renata Avila
Co-Founder and Council Member, Progressive International
Adriano Bacconi
Consultant, Math&Sport
Mara Balestrini
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) expert and technology strategist.
Luca Ballarini
Founder and Creative Director, Torino Stratosferica.
Lorenza Baroncelli
Architect, Researcher, Curator. Artistic Director Triennale di Milano.
Monica Bello
Director, Arts at CERN.
Chiara Bertini
Curator, MAXXI.
Alessandra Bianco
Corporate Communication Director, Lavazza Group
Ghislaine Boddington
Creative Director Body > Data > Space collective.
Andrea Bolioli
Research & Innovation Manager, CELI - H-FARM Innovation
Francesca Bria
President of Italian Innovation Fund, UN Advisor and S+T+ARTS Ambassador
Mario Calderini
Professor, Politecnico di Milano - Torino Social Impact
Anna Carbone
Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino
Jesi Carson
Lead Designer, Partecipedia
Ciro Cattuto
Steering Committee Member, Fondazione CRT, Associate Professor, University of Torino
Mariona Ciller
Co-founder & Co-director, SokoTech.
Brice Coniglio
Founder & Artistic Director, Viadellafucina16 Condominio-Museo
Kate Crawford
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research & Research Professor at USC Annenberg
Clémence Debaig
Dance artist, Designer and Creative Technologist
Carlo De Marchis
Group Chief Evangelist, Deltatre
Tomàs Dìez
Director and founder, Fab City Initiative
Linda Di Pietro
Chief Cultural Officer, BASE Milano
Marta Di Vincenzo
Education Curator, ARTECO
Juan Carlos De Martin
Founder and Director of Nexa Center of Internet and Society.
Josè Luis De Vicente
Cultural Researcher, Head Curator of Sónar +D
Ralph Dum
Senior Expert, European Commission.
HER
Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, HER: She Loves Data Research Centre.
Milou Jansen
Policy Adviser, Digital Rights, City of Amsterdam
Outi Kuittinen
Senior Expert, DEMOS Helsinki.
Morgana Lalli
Data Scientist, Deltatre
Matteo Lanfranchi
Founder of Reverb Srls and Effetto Larsen.
Massimo Lapucci
Secretary General, Fondazione CRT, CEO OGR Torino.
Veronika Liebl
Director of European Cooperation, Organization and Finance, Ars Electronica.
Vittorio Loreto
Director, Sony Science Computer Labs Paris.
Pietro Marini
Group Head of Innovation, Deltatre
Giorgio Marsiaj
Presidente, Consulta di Torino
Maria Grazia Mattei
Founder and President of MEET, Digital Culture Center
Geoff Mulgan
Professor, University College London and Former CEO, Nesta
NONE Collective
Gregorio De Luca Comandini, Mauro Pace, Saverio Villirillo, NONE collective
Daniela Paolotti
Senior Research Scientist, ISI Foundation
Ilaria Peretti
Assistant Curator, ARTECO
Matteo Pessione
OGR Tech Coordinator
Samuele Piazza
OGR Curator.
Carlo Ratti
Director at MIT Senseable City Lab.
Denis Roio
Founder & CTO at Dyne.org
Paola Sabbione
Culture Goal, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
Elly Schlein
Vice President, Emilia Romagna Regional Council
Karla Spiluttini
Project manager, STARTS Prize, Ars Electronica
Marleen Stikker
Founder of Waag.
Studio Above & Below
Perry-James Sudgen and Daria Jelonek, Studio Above and Below
Cristina Tajani
Councillor of the City of Milan.
Giulia Tommasello
Artist, Future FLora and Alma Project.
Menno Weijs
Project Manager, European Cultural Foundation
Pontus Westerberg
UN-Habitat
300.000 Km/s
Mar Santamaria Varas and Pablo Martinez Díez, 300.000 Km/s
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