Degree in Civil Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan, about twenty years of experience in construction companies. Master of Management and Organizational Development at MIP. Certified Project Manager IPMA®. LEED®, Living Future and WELL Accredited Professional. USGBC® and WELL Faculty™. Since 2009, he has been working with IDM South Tyrol (Italy) as an innovation manager in the Ecosystem Construction. From 2010 to 2011, he worked with the Energy & Environment Cluster of Trentino as manager of the business unit for sustainable products. From 2015 to 2016, he was the co-owner of a start-up focused on LEED consulting.
From 2017 to 2021, he has been working with Eurac Research as Chair and Project Manager of the COST Action 16114 RESTORE. Since 2018 he is European Executive Director for the International Living Future Institute and now President at Living Future Europe. LFE’s mission will hasten the change and provide needed direction towards a regenerative design transition in Europe.
Martin is a Sustainability Provocateur & Consultant with his Fairsnape organisation, where he is supporting, counselling and invigorating clients, designers, contractors, academic and industry groups on regenerative journeys and discoveries. A passionate advocate for regenerative climate + ecological innovations and solutions, he is the author of FutuREstorative, Working Towards a New Sustainability, along with many other papers, articles and publications on regenerative sustainability themes.
Martin is Vice-President, Living Future Europe, Vice-Chair, COSTRestore and received ILFI Hero status in 2018. In 2020 Martin founded Zoom Regenerative, a global conscious collective that, like a forest web of life, reciprocates and invigorates, nurtures and heals, cross-pollinating regenerative practices for a healthy thriving future.
Emanuele Naboni is an Associate Professor at the University of Parma. He practices, teaches, researches and publishes in the field of architectural technology and production process that lead to Regenerative Environmental Design, and Design for Climate Change, at different scales: Urban, Buildings and Components, with a focus on linking Ecosystems and Humans via Digital Design. He is an Affiliated Professor at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, School of Architecture (KADK), where he was an associate professor for 10 years and still teaches in the program of Architecture and Extreme Environments and CITA masters programs. He is a consultant for sustainable technology and processes with Emanuele_Naboni_Climate, currently dealing with projects in several countries.
Emanuele was design leader at the “Performance Design Studio” of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) in San Francisco(2006-2010). He has consulted for the design of more than 40 sustainable and energy-efficient buildings, districts and master plans, collaborating with Loisos + Ubbelohde, BIG, Arup, Kengo Kuma, William MC Donough, Autodesk. He has contributed to the design of new facade systems that are today commercialized in Europe, USA and Asia. He developed 10 full buildings with innovative climatic and energy-positive prototypes that were shown worldwide in places such as the Chicago Museum of Industry and Science, London Building Center. He won international design competitions including the 1st prizes for large scale headquarters such as Lavazza in Torino and Telecom in Rome.
He contributed to the scientific design of the Master of Architecture in Extreme Environments at KADK, which features a collaboration with NASA, and has led to the design of almost 200 built architectural devices in several locations worldwide. He offers a PhD international course “A guide to a PhD thesis in the Architecture and Design Disciplines” that was taught in several universities. He holds a Master in Architecture and a joint PhD program in Building Science awarded from Politecnico di Milano. He had further targeted short term education in Building simulation at UC Berkeley, Urban Physics at TU Eindhoven, City Energy Analysis at ETH and Urban Resilience with the United Nation. For years he was a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley (LBNL) (2005-2012) working with DOE (US Department of Energy) projects in the team of Stephan Selkowiz.
Emanuele was Invited Professor at ETH Future Cities Lab in Singapore (2019), EPFL Lausanne (2016-17), Southeast University in Nanjing (2018), Architectural Association in London (2014). University of California Berkeley (2013). He has been invited to lecture at TU Delft, TU Munich, UC Berkeley, Aalto University, National University of Singapore, The University of Nottingham, Arup World Research, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), SOS of MCA, Aarhus University, and several others. He is an invited course reviewer at EPFL, IAAC, and Bartlett (UCL).
He is involved in EU projects RESTORE: REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Design (2016) with focus on connecting regional, urban and indoor scales and technologies, the EU SHELDON that focuses on Smart Habitat for an Elderly Society (2017) and the CA19126 - Positive Energy Districts. He is an associate member of the Erasmus Project NLited (New Level of Integrated Techniques for Daylighting Education) (2020-24). He was also a member of the Erasmus Project BeInterBaltic, a project for the exploitation of Interdisciplinary Design Research and Teaching (2015-19). He was involved in a series of EU FP7 projects connected to computation in sustainable design: the VENUS-C: Virtual multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud infrastructures (2010-13) and the ASCETiC project: Adapting Service lifeCycle towards EfficienT Clouds. (2013-16). He is a reviewer for the EU of H2020 application and COST actions. He is involved in several other smaller European Projects and a reviewer of European and national based applications for Austria and Sweden governments.
He is an associate member of the boards of PLEA, CISBAT and IBPSA conferences. He writes for RIBA, DETAIL and Taylor and Francis, and has published (and is a reviewer) of several international journals of high impact factor. He has written the books “Green Buildings Pay” and “Regenerative Design in the Digital Practice” and currently contracted with Taylor and Francis, for the book “Tools for Environmental Design”. He supports humanitarian agencies in the development of climatic dwelling, in Tanzania and Thailand, and outcomes are in a collaboration described in the book "Healthy Homes".
Giulia Peretti is a sustainability consultant and ESG (Environmental Social Governance) manager. She studied sustainable architecture at the University IUAV of Venice and worked for over 12 year for the engineering company Werner Sobek as team leader for the sustainability department Green Technologies, managing worldwide projects in the field of sustainable building and urban design. Currently she works as ESG and sustainability manager for the real estate company Real I.S. in Munich. Her fields of competence are green building certification, integration of sustainable and regenerative design principles in the practice and ESG strategies according to the EU Action Plan as well as project management.She leads the working Group 3 of Restore (Regenerative Construction and Operation) and was the scientific director of the Training School 3 in Bolzano/Italy.
