Dr Ezio Manzini

Polytechnic of Milan Italy www.desis-network.org

  Ezio Manzini, a leading thinker on design for sustainability, founded DESIS, an international design network for social innovation and sustainability (http://www.desis-network.org). He is an Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, a Professor at the University of the Arts London, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Jiangnan University, Wuxi. For more than two decades he has been working in the field of design for sustainability. More recently, his interests have focused on social innovation, considered one of the main drivers of sustainable change. In this perspective DESIS started: an international network of design schools specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability (http://www.desis-network.org).

Dr. Priscila Lena Farias

University of Sao Paulo Brazil 

  Priscila Farias is a graphic designer, researcher and professor of design. Her main interests, both as a designer and as a researcher, are typography, type design, communication and semiotics. His current research projects focus on graphic memory (first typographers in the city of São Paulo and printing workshops, in Latin America visual and print culture), and typographic landscapes (public letters and architectural epigraphs). She has a BA in Graphic Design (FAAP), an MA and a PhD in Communication and Semiotics (PUC-SP), and was a visiting scholar at Indiana University Bloomington and the University of the Arts London. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo School of Architecture and Urban Studies (FAU USP), where she coordinates the Visual Design Research Laboratory (LabVisual) and supervises undergraduate, master's, and doctoral research students.