Storico dell’arte, editore e curatore

Morad Montazami

Morad Montazami è uno storico dell’arte, editore e curatore. Dopo aver lavorato al Tate Modern, ha fondato la piattaforma Zamân Books & Curating, dedicando i suoi studi alle ricerche transnazionali sull’arte moderna e contemporanea araba, asiatica e africana.

Federica Fragapane

Federica Fragapane is an independent information designer. Over the years, she has created data visualization projects for the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Publications Office of the European Union, the BBC, Scientific American, Google, Triennale Milano, and La Lettura of Corriere della Sera. In 2023, three of her data visualizations became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Across many of her projects, she adopts an experimental approach, carefully selecting visual languages to invite readers to explore the stories told by the data.

Keir Milburn

Dr. Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and consultant. He has a background as an academic in political economy and organisation theory and is currently co-director of the action-research think tank Abundance. He is the author of Generation Left (2019 Polity) and co-author, along with Bertie Russell and Kai Heron, of Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future (2025). As a member of the Red Plenty Games Collective he also designs and runs political strategy games and uses game play to research common political imaginaries. He also co-hosts the popular #ACFM podcast on Novara Media.

Caroline Woolard

Caroline Woolard is a founding co-organizer of Art.coop and Head of Strategy at Pollinator.coop. She is the Area Head of Foundations in the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University and the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and Spirits and Logistics (Center for Cultural Innovation, 2022) and three books: Making and Being (Pioneer Works, 2019), a book for educators about interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored with Susan Jahoda; Art, Engagement, Economy (onomatopee, 2020) a book about managing socially-engaged and public art projects; and TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019, a book about peer learning that Woolard catalyzed in thirty cities internationally over a decade. Woolard’s artwork has been featured twice on New York Close Up (2014, 2016), a digital film series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS. https://carolinewoolard.com/

Kate Rich

Kate Rich is a trade artist and feral economist, trading in and outside formal institutions for over 30 years.She is co-founder of the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), an international agency producing an array of critical information products including economic and ecologic indices, event-triggered webcam networks and animal operated emergency broadcast devices. From 2003-2023 she ran Feral Trade, a long-range economic experiment and underground freight network, utilising the spare carrying capacity of the art world for the transportation of groceries. Kate has worked as bar manager, usher, director and finance team member at Bristol's all-volunteer run Cube Microplex. She is system administrator with the Irational.org linux server collective, a satellite agent of the FoAM network of transdisciplinary labs and a member of the Community Economies Institute. In 2019 she co-organised RADMIN, Britain's first festival of Administration. And in 2020 Kate established the Feral MBA, a radically reimagined training course in business for artists and others. Alongside colleagues from FoAM she is currently setting up the Institute for Experiments with Business a lab for investigating new and wild shapes for business and enterprise in Europe. This work forms part of Kate's Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted at the Alpine Community Economies Lab (ACELab), research arm of Brave New Alps (Italy).

Bianca Elzenbaumer

Dr Bianca Elzenbaumer is a feminist design researcher based in the Italian Alps. Elzenbaumer is a founding member of the design practice Brave New Alps and of the community academy La Foresta. Her 40-year research plan focuses on supporting and creating community economies and commons starting from the rural places she lives in. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and an MA in Mediation and International Peacebuilding from the University of Bologna. She is a member of the Community Economies Institute based in Sydney and with 50 members across the world. www.brave-new-alps.com www.laforesta.net www.alpinecommunityeconomies.org