Ginevra D’Agostino
Co-Founder, President
Ginevra D’Agostino is a principal of Alliata / Alcega, and is currently at MIT pursing a Master in Architecture. At MIT, she founded Out of Frame, a platform envisioned to retain dialogue across the university’s diverse community as it was dispersed globally by COVID-19. Her current academic research, supported by the Marjorie Pierce/Dean William Emerson Fellowship MIT’s NuVu Prize and MIT’s Transmedia and Storytelling Initiative grant, focuses on abandonment patterns of towns and infrastructure across rural Italy.
Ginevra received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has taught at MIT as part of its Summer Research Pedagogical Experiments program.
Carmelo Ignaccolo
Co-Founder, Vice President of Research
Carmelo Ignaccolo is a Ph.D. Candidate in City Design and Development at MIT, DUSP, where he is a Research Affiliate at the Civic Data Design Lab. He is also an Adjunct Faculty of Digital Techniques for Urban Design at Columbia University GSAPP. His academic work employs urban analytics and mapping techniques to analyze the urban morphology of historic cities and investigate how the built environment affects human cognition and behavior.
Before joining MIT for his PhD, Carmelo worked as an Urban Planner for the United Nations (UN-Habitat) in the Nairobi Headquarter (Kenya) and for the AECOM Urban Design Studio in New York City. Carmelo received a Master in Urban Design from Columbia University, GSAPP as a Fulbright Fellow, and a 5-Year Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Architecture-Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy.
Nicolás Delgado Alcega
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President
Nicolás Delgado Alcega is a principal of Alliata / Alcega, a design studio based in Rome, and a founding editor of Pairs, a journal dedicated to conversations with designers, academics and activists involved in issues of the built environment, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work uses architecture as a reflective tool in order to affect the social, political and economic phenomena transforming cities and towns today.
Nicolás received a Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami. He has been involved with research at the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard, as well as the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in Turkey. He currently teaches in the design sequence at the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments.
Elena Militello
Founding Partner
Elena Militello is a researcher and an activist living in Italy. Her postdoctoral research focuses on issues related to criminal justice. Elena is President of the not-for-profit association South Working®️, a public policy strategy to improve cohesion and bridge the current economic, social, and territorial gap affecting Southern Italy and Italian inner areas. She is passionate about linguistics, restorative justice and sustainability.
Elena holds a Combined Bachelor and Master Degree in Law from Bocconi University in Milan and a Ph.D. in Law and Humanities from the University of Insubria in Como. She is currently a researcher in criminal procedure at the University of Messina in Sicily.
Lucrezia Scarapicchia
Founding Partner
Lucrezia Scarapicchia is a young professional who connects people and businesses on a full-time basis. She is the Founder and President of REGIB, the first formal network of young Italians in Belgium, and is a Senior Sales Manager at the leading media network in Brussels. She thrives on building profitable and meaningful relationships, loves telling stories of people, and is fascinated by the repopulation of rural spaces.
Lucrezia currently lives in Brussels after years in the UK and China. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Exeter, and has extensive experience in Sales and EU public affairs. She speaks Italian, English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.
Yaara Yacoby
Founding Member
Yaara Yacoby is a passionate multi-disciplinarian. She completed her Bachelor of Art History in Art and Architecture at Harvard, where she also explored topics in anthropology, psychology, and biology. Curious about community building and design, she researched, documented, and wrote her thesis about the history and culture of the European Alpine huts. Her passion about design for communities has carried over to her Master in Architecture at MIT, where she has explored designing across multigenerational gaps and socio-economic boundaries. Her experience ranges from research and communication to working on tech platforms and innovation consulting.
Mariel Collard
Founding Member
Mariel Collard is an architect, landscape designer, researcher, and design educator. She maintains an independent practice based in Mexico City that works with the multiscale entanglements between living and built environments. Through collaborations with other creative organizations, she operates within and around the fields of architecture and landscape. She is currently a lecturer at the School of Architecture at McGill University where she introduces architecture students to landscape thinking. Her current research focuses on non-city landscapes as sites of inquiry—a space that has been neglected by the design professions in the last decades. She is interested in human and other-than-human agency in farming practices, and the way these intersect with decolonial epistemology and non-Western ways of knowing.
Mariel obtained a Master in Landscape Architecture and a Master in Design Studies with a concentration in Risk & Resilience from Harvard University. She graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana with a professional degree in architecture and has worked as a landscape designer and architect in Mexico, The United States and Canada.
José Francisco Muci
Founding Member
Frank is an applied researcher in economic development and public policy at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Over six years, he has worked on projects in Albania, Jordan, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Loreto (state in Perú), Namibia, and South Africa with the same goal – to identify and implement public policies to accelerate economic and social development. He enjoys using leveraging the traditional tools of economics and econometrics with the modern tools of Data Science to inform policy design, implementation and decision-making.
Frank holds a M.A. in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Brown University. His research interests include public finance, growth policy and economic diversification. He co-taught “Why are countries poor, volatile and unequal?” at the Harvard Kennedy School with Prof. Ricardo Hausmann in 2019 and 2020.
Chiara Romano Bosch
Founding Partner
Chiara is an internationalist and humanitarian, currently working as a Humanitarian Military Interaction Officer at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome, Italy to support WFP’s operations in addressing potential civil-military coordination gaps. Before being in this position, Chiara has covered different roles within the organization – all within the realm of emergency preparedness and response – acting as a Programme Officer, Operations Officer and Emergency Preparedness Officer in Djibouti, Yemen, the Sahel, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to working at WFP, where Chiara has been for six years, she dabbled briefly in journalism- which remains a strong area of interest, alongside food security, access to education and migration.
Chiara holds a bilingual BA in International Relations from the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Spain) and a MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London (UK), where she developed her interest in civil-military relations and thus proceeded to write a thesis on the ‘Civil-Military Gap in Colombia’ historically and how it has shaped Colombian reality today.
Claudia Ignaccolo
Founding Partner
Claudia Ignaccolo is a young doctor in Cultural Heritage. She graduated with honors from the University of Catania. In her graduation thesis, Claudia analyzed and documented the baroque ornaments of the eighteenth-century noble palaces in Catania.
Fascinated by the possibility of combining her passion for the history of art with the computational potential of information technology in museum professions, she decided to begin a master's degree course in Humanities Computer Science at the University of Pisa. Claudia’s skills, which vary between the historical study of places and digital techniques (virtual and augmented reality environments, graphics, multimedia production), can contribute to an innovative reading of the cultural heritage of small Italian towns.
Stefano Rossi
Member
Stefano Rossi is co-founder of RossiWalker Architects, a studio that sees architecture as a tool to engage action towards a better quality of life, as well as a way to communicate by means of representation what society wants to change for the better. He received a Master in Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). He has worked as a teaching assistant in Introduction to Construction, as well as for a Certificate Program on Wood Construction. Interested in mixing local resources with technology and science, he sees in multidisciplinary projects a more responsible way of creating cities.
Juan Walker
Member
Juan Walker is co-founder of RossiWalker Architects, a studio that sees architecture as a tool to engage action towards a better quality of life, as well as a way to communicate by means of representation what society wants to change for the better. He received a Master in Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). Interested in theory, history and practice, he aims to understand how the relationship between social change and architecture affects the form, uses and limits of spaces. He has been a teaching assistant for four years at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and at the Universidad de Chile for two years.