Francesca Cognetti is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Politecnico di Milano. Her work focuses on public housing, social inequalities, and the role of universities as urban actors. She has developed innovative approaches to participatory planning and action-research, particularly in marginalised contexts such as Milan’s San Siro neighborhood, where she has coordinated the long-term project Mapping San Siro. Since 2014, she has also served as Rector’s Delegate for Public Engagement, promoting the university’s social responsibility initiatives, including the Off Campus program. Her research and projects — often carried out in collaboration with institutions, local communities, and international networks — have received several national and international awards, and continue to explore how urban practices can foster inclusion, participation, and new forms of knowledge. 

MA in History and PhD at the Urban Studies Department of Università di Roma 3. Associate Professor in Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano and a member of the Teaching Committee of the Doctoral School in Urban Studies and Regional Science at GSSI.

Raffaella Saporito is an Associate Professor of Practice of Public Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management, where she has been engaged for nearly twenty years in research and teaching on the functioning, reform, and development of public administrations, primarily for the benefit of managers and officials of Italian and international institutions. Her studies focus on management models of public housing agencies and their implications for housing inclusion, within collaborations with these agencies and through nationally and internationally funded projects. She has collaborated with the Ministry of Public Administration on the civil service reform program and has served as a member of numerous selection committees, senior executive recruitment boards, and performance evaluation panels. 

Ivan Manuppelli, known as Hurricane, is an Italian cartoonist, illustrator, and musician inspired by the underground comix tradition. He is the creator of series such as Precary Man, Groove, and I Sopravvissuti, the latter published in Linus and later collected by Eris Edizioni. His satirical works have appeared in Frigidaire, Il Male, Linus, MAD Magazine, and Il Manifesto, where he also published the daily strip series Cronache dal Virus. Active in Milan’s independent comics scene, Hurricane co-founded the AFA Festival and directs the magazine Čapek, continuing to use satire and grotesque imagery to critique contemporary urban and political life.