Sam Gosling is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. His research focuses on the psychology of physical space, how personality is expressed in everyday context, and on new methods for collecting data in the behavioral sciences.

Paolo Boccagni is a Professor in Sociology (University of Trento). He is currently doing comparative research on the lived experience of home, with a particular focus on the temporalities and boundary-making of asylum seekers in reception facilities.

Alaa is a London-based visual artist, designer and creative facilitator. Throughout her various roles her work always seeks to emphasise the value of using creativity as a pedagogical process to address and explore larger issues such as identity, faith and race.

Yuka Oyama is a Japanese-German artist based in Berlin. Oyama’s artistic practice employs human body and worn objects as sculpture, jewellery, video, photography choreographic experimentations and performances.

Greg Noble is Professor of Cultural Research at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. His research interests are youth, ethnicity, class and gender; migration and multiculturalism; material culture and the home; cultural pedagogies; multicultural education.

Paulina Yurman is an industrial designer, researcher and lecturer in industrial design at Central Saint Martins, London. Her design research explore the ambivalence of designed artefacts and the associated behaviours these may incite.

Flavio Martella is a PhD at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and he researches the expansion of the concept of domesticity into the urban (and vice versa). Since 2018 he is co-founder of the architectural studio m²ft architects.

Friedemann Yi-Neumann is an anthropologist at the University of Göttingen. He works on forced migration and life in asylum reception from a perspective on things and home-making.

Michela Bassanelli, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on domestic interiors, exhibition design, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in contemporary living.

Anuradha Reddy is a post-doctoral fellow in Interaction Design at Malmö University, Sweden. Her research aims to understand if design research, as a part of maker/hacker communities, can contribute to a creative critique of the data society.

Andrea Staid teaches Cultural and Visual Anthropology at Naba, comparative literature at Insubria University. He holds a Phd at the University of Granada and he is the author of the multiple books.

Christopher K. Travis is a writer, publisher, theorist and the managing partner and lead residential designer of Sentient Architecture LLC, an architecture firm, and Truehome Design. Build in Colorado, USA. He is known for using psychological and therapeutic methods to inform the design of homes.

Kim Barbour is a qualitative new media scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Media at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her research looks at online persona and the domestic use of social media.

Lorenza Liandru is an art historian. She is the responsible for PR and communication at the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, in Trento, Italy. She is the curator of the Virtual museum ‘Museo della Quarantena’ (translated as Quarantine Museum).

Andrew Bruno is an architect in New York City. He works in the NYC Housing Authority and he is the creator of ‘One House Per Day’ project where he drew a different detached house for 365 days.

Janine Combes is a contemporary jeweller and researcher based in Tasmania, Australia. She focuses on objects left behind in abandoned human settlements and the meaning of these objects.

Sophia Maalsen is senior lecturer at University of Sydney, Australia. Her reaserch focus is on how digital technologies mediate and reconfigure housing, the urban and the everyday.

Ziggie Bruhn is a Danish Born Artist and a yoga teacher. She also teaches drawing classes for kids in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Keith Jacobs is a Professor of Sociology at University of Tasmania, Australia, and his research is focused on housing policy.

Corinna del Bianco is a researcher and curator of projects such as ‘Spontaneous living places’ and ‘Archipelago’. She is PhD and adjunct professor of Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Yasaman Esmaili is an architect and educator working between Tehran and Boston. Her Studio Chahar is a research-driven collaborative architectural design studio focused on design equity and innovation.

Alessandra Micalizzi is a psychologist and a PhD in Communication and New Technologies. She is lecturer at SAE Institute of Milan and her focus is ‘housing psychology’.

Guglielmo Brambilla is a product designer between Milan, London, and Seoul. He worked for Nicholai Wiig Hansen, Philippe Malouin, Bethan Laura Wood, and Fabrica.

Lauren Reid is a curator, researcher and educator. She is a PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Ahmed Al-Mallak is an Iraqi architect and academic at Coventry University, UK. He is also the founding director of Tamayouz Excellence Award.

Stef Bakker is a designer and a professor at Design Academic of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He also has his own design studio called Studio Bakker in Amsterdam.

Short video: “The meaning of Home Objects”

Short video: “The meaning of Home”

Launch video: “The meaning of Sociable Objects - Oggetti Socievoli”

Matilde Vaghi is the writer of the essay “A psychological view | Uno sguardo psicologico” in Oggetti Socievoli book