Formafantasma

Formafantasma is a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political and social forces shaping the discipline of design today. The studio was founded in 2009 by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. The aim of the studio is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities. Working from their studio in Milan (Italy) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands), the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy.

Daniel Godínez Nivón

Daniel Godínez Nivón is a visual artist, educator and independent researcher based between Amsterdam and Mexico City. His practice is grounded in tequio—a form of collective work rooted in Indigenous communities, especially in Oaxaca, Mexico—shaping a practice that merges social participation, pedagogy, and collective knowledge-making. Godínez Nivón investigates the ties between dreaming and the living world, asking how the dreams of humans and other beings can illuminate environmental crises and spark collective imagination. He studied at the UNAM Faculty of Arts and Design in Mexico City and later completed a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2021–2022). His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, including at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Museo Tamayo, MUAC, Van Abbemuseum, Kunsthalle Bern, macLYON, ATLAS Arts and Amant. In 2022, he received the Prince Claus Fellowship Award and represented Mexico at the 23rd Milano Triennale, where the Mexican Pavilion received the Silver Bee Award. He currently holds the Mondriaan Fonds Artist Basis Grant (2025–2029).

Curator and professor

Ute Meta Bauer

Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and professor whose work connects contemporary art, film, video, and sound through transdisciplinary formats. Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore and full professor at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media, she has held key curatorial roles at major international exhibitions, including Documenta11, the 3rd Berlin Biennale, the Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, and the 17th Istanbul Biennial.

Colleen Macklin

Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the school of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design. She’s interested in how games model and reveal ideologies through systems. At Parsons, she is the founder and co-director of PETLab, a design research lab that develops games for experimental learning and social engagement. PETLab projects include disaster preparedness games and sports with the Red Cross, the urban activist game Re:Activism and the physical/fiscal sport Budgetball. She is a member of the game design collective Local No. 12, known for the videogame Dear Reader and the social card game, The Metagame. She has co-authored (with John Sharp), Games, Design and Play: A detailed look at iterative game design (Addison Wesley Professional, 2016) and Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure (MIT Press, 2019). Colleen has a BFA in Media Arts from Pratt Institute, and an MA in International Affairs from The New School.

Joice Preira

Joice Preira is an expert in Strategic Foresight and Futures Studies, a consumer insights analyst specializing in Social Foresight. Until 2026, she served as President of ALAF – Associação Latina de Futuros, an international organization dedicated to promoting anticipatory thinking in Latin America, and is co-founder of ABF Pro – Brazilian Association of Professional Futurists. She teaches Futures Design and Strategic Foresight in Brazil's leading Master's program in Futures & Strategic Foresight. She was a speaker at TEDx Barletta (2020) with the talk "Futures Studies Explained to My Daughter" and at TEDx Verona (2023) with the workshop "Verona in 2050: What Will Its Natural Capital Be Like?" She currently coordinates the Advisory Board of the IFF Italian Institute for the Future Foundation.

Chus Martínez

Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. She is currently the Head of the Institute of Art Gender Nature of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland, and associate curator of TBA21 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. She is board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums) and also serves on the advisory boards of numerous international art institutions, including SAHA Association in Istanbul; De Appel, Amsterdam and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. She has been the Chief Curator at El Museo Del Barrio, New York and dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department. Previously she was Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona, Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Martínez has organized numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. She lectures and writes regularly including numerous catalogue texts and critical essays and is a regular contributor to international journals. Recent exhibitions: Danish Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale (2026) with artist Maja Malou Lyse; A Velvet Ant, a Flower and a Bird at the Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2026); Pedagogies of War, featuring artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21; The Oracle, the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025); Clear, Lucid, and Awake at the Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2025); Stephanie Comilang: Search for Life at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (2024); Doblad mis Amores, Collegium February 2023; Living in Joy, Art Sonje March 2023; Mathilde Rossier, Fondation Pernod Ricard, May 2023. Recent publications are The Complex Answer: On Art as a Nonbinary Intelligence, Sternberg Press (2023); Like This. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art. Hatje Cantz Verlag (2022); Coding Care (edited together with Sabine Himmelsbach), Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022; Corona Tales. Let Life Happen to You, Lenz, (2021) and The Wild Book of Inventions, Sternberg Press (2020).

Marialaura Ghidini

Marialaura Ghidini è una curatrice e ricercatrice il cui lavoro esplora le intersezioni tra arte e tecnologie digitali. Il suo interesse si rivolge a ciò che spesso rimane invisibile—dalle infrastrutture delle piattaforme alla retorica aziendale—e a come queste plasmino la produzione della conoscenza e il rapporto tra le persone e i loro ambienti. A seguito del suo dottorato di ricerca practice-based presso CRUMB, University of Sunderland (2015), ha approfondito la curatela sul web e la curatela digitale, concentrandosi sul loro impatto sulla produzione culturale, sull'accesso alla cultura e sul coinvolgimento del pubblico, e indagando i processi di traduzione tra contesti online e offline. Tra i suoi progetti figurano or-bits.com (2009–2015), #exstrange (2017), curating.online (Italian Council 9, 2021), Codici Magici (2023) e We Are All Users, Till We Are Not (MACTE Digital, 2025). Ha inoltre tenuto seminari e conferenze presso università internazionali ed è stata docente e course leader presso lo Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology di Bangalore (2015–2021). È coautrice di La Natura Ibrida della Curatela Digitale. Dal Web all’IA (Mimesis, 2026) e co-curatrice del progetto editoriale Silicon Plateau. https://marialaura-ghidini.hotglue.me/