Stefano Serafini
With a background as medievalist. He's a founder member of the International Society of Biourbanism and researcher in the field of Epistemology, with a special interest in Intentionality and Form. He devoted 10 years to the study of Evolution and self-organization, and has carried on an original research on the origins of Semitic alphabets, together with his master, geneticist Giuseppe Sermonti. Among his publications: the Italian edition of Antonio Lima-de-Faria, Evolution without Selection. Form and Function by Autoevolution, Biourbanism as a new framework for smart cities studies, SEGNISEED. A service design experiment implemented in the urban context.
Ya'ara Rosner Manor
Ya'ara Rosner Manor is an architect and urban planner with over 15 years of professional experience. She has over a decade of experience in teaching participatory planning, place making and strategic planning. She is the winner of several academic and professional grants and prizes, including the Israeli Planners' Association "Best Researcher" (2013), the President of the State of Israel Scholarship for Innovative Scientific Research (2015) and the Israel Planners' Association ‘Most influential Planners' (2021). Her professional work as well as her research is focused on informal urban structures, and especially on mediating the needs and aspirations of local communities and planning system(s).