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Design is a collective act, an open and inclusive language nourished by diverse voices, stories, and knowledge.

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aims to value every contribution as an essential part of a shared creative process. Each person brings a unique piece of storytelling, culture, and innovation, helping to build an authentic and universal relational language.

VALENTINA BOTTANI

Designer di Duondolo

Valentina Bottani is the designer of Duondolo, a project selected within the interdisciplinary workshop at the Politecnico di Milano. Originally from the province of Milan, she graduated in Product Design from the Politecnico di Milano. With a longstanding interest in the narrative aspect of design, her thesis, titled “Stories Worth Telling,” focused on the importance of the stories behind every product. In 2024, she decided to pursue further studies by enrolling in the Master’s program in Integrated Product Design.

SARA RICCIARDI

Designer di Donna Franca e Liberty

Artist, designer, and educator, Sara Ricciardi lives and works in Milan. She is one of the most eccentric and vibrant voices in the Italian design scene. Her work freely crosses the boundaries of design, performance, and sensory research. Varied, energetic, and deeply connected to social and natural themes, she creates poetic worlds where objects become tools for relationship and wonder.
She studied Product Design in Milan, Istanbul, and New York, and in 2016 founded Sara Ricciardi Studio, working with her creative collective in her imaginative laboratory, Pataspazio. Here, she designs objects for companies, limited-edition art-design pieces for galleries, installations, interiors, and performances.

MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI MALERBA

Designer di Acanto

Born in 1976, Marcantonio attended the Art Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts, starting his career as a set designer and sculptor.
His early work involved creating art for collectors and designing interiors for private clients, including shops and venues.
Since 2001, Marcantonio has dedicated himself to art and industrial design, bringing an unpredictable, sculptural, and emotional dimension to the world of design. Over recent years, he has become one of Italy’s most celebrated art designers of his generation.
Marcantonio creates pure, everyday, and simple expressions that are also artistic, blending memories with provocative reinterpretations of objects.

MARTINA TOSO

Designer di BePunk

Martina Toso is a young Italian designer, born in January 2003 in Recanati and raised in Civitanova Marche. After one year studying biomedical engineering, she decided to change course, feeling unfulfilled in a less creative environment. The following year, she moved to Milan to pursue a degree in Industrial Product Design at the Politecnico di Milano, graduating last July. Her choice reflects her curious and eclectic nature.
She describes herself through three key qualities: empathy, adaptability, and curiosity. She does not see herself as having a fixed, unchanging identity but as someone with many facets that shape according to contexts, circumstances, and needs.

ELENA BONNET

Designer di BePunk

Born in Paris in 2003, Elena develops her research around a constantly evolving identity. Her work stems from the interplay between method and intuition: design becomes a space for synthesis between industrial rigor and expressive tension.
Through painting and photography, she explores the concept of identity as a process of layering, transformation, and new perspectives.
Raised between Italy and France, her design perspective is influenced by the dialogue between different cultures and languages. In 2025, she will graduate in Industrial Design from the Politecnico di Milano.
During her university journey, her project *Between Layers*, developed with her team, was selected as the winning proposal in a contest promoted by Fondazione FAR.

Through ongoing collaboration with designers, we continue to explore new ways of living and relating, driven by the deep belief that true design is always an act of listening, discovery, and connection.

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