News, voices and proposals from cities around the world
The festival guests — 2023

Admir Masic
Professor, Founder & Scientist
Boston (USA)

Anna Lisa Boni
Deputy Mayor for European Funds, Ecological Transition and International Relations
Bologna (Italy)

Baharash Bagherian
Chief Executive Officer of URB
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

Bram Dewolfs
Director of Urban Foxes
Brussels (Belgium)

Carlota Rebelo
Editor of Monocle
London (UK)

Caroline Bos
Co-founder of UNStudio
Copenhagen (Denmark)

Christine Murray
Founding Director & Owner at The Developer / Festival of Place
London (UK)

Costanza De Stefani
Project Manager Reinventing Cities, C40
London (UK)

David Dudley
Senior Editor, Bloomberg CityLab
Baltimore (USA)

Doug Gordon
Activist / The War on Cars
New York (USA)

Eugenia Kargbo
Chief Heat Officer of Freetown
Freetown (Sierra Leone)

Giulia Frittoli
Partner BIG Landscape
Copenaghen (Denmark)

Grégory Doucet
Mayor of Lyon
Lyon (France)

Hélène Chartier
Director of Urban Planning and Design, C40
Paris (France)

Hubert Beroche
Founder of Urban AI
Paris (France)

Jack Murphy
Executive Editor, The Architect's Newspaper
New York (USA)

Jacyntha Serre
Third-place development consultant and urban planner at Sinny&Ooko
Paris (France)

Juval Dieziger
Co-Founder/Chief Emotional Officer at Holzmarkt
Berlin (Germany)

Marjan de Blok
Initiator of Schoonschip
Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Marta Stella
Board Member & Chief Marketing Officer, Borio Mangiarotti
Milan (Italy)

Martin Knuijt
Landscape architect and Partner of OKRA
Utrecht (Netherlands)

Massimo Diotallevi
Head of Progetti Immobiliari Speciali, FS Sistemi Urbani
Rome (Italy)

Pablo Sendra
Professor and author of “Designing Disorder”
London (UK)

Patrice Gillespie Smith
Chief Operating Officer of Friends of The Underline
Miami (USA)

Peter van Wingerden
Partner of Floating Farm
Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Petra Marko
Architect and author of "Meanwhile City"
Bratislava (Slovakia)

Ramon Marrades
Director at Placemaking Europe
Valencia (Spain)

Reto Bürgin
Scientific Collaborator, Davos Alliance Baukultur
Bern (Switzerland)

Richard Upton
Founder of Are You?
London (UK)

Scott Kratz
Director of 11th Street Bridge Park
Washington DC (USA)

Sergio Urbani
Executive Editor, Fondazione Cariplo
Milan (Italy)

Stefano Minini
Project Director — MIND Milano Innovation District for Lendlease
Milan (Italy)

Vivian Doumpa
Director of STIPO Greece, Board Member for Placemaking Europe
Athens (Greece)

Zuhal Kol
Co-Founder of OPENACT
Istanbul (Turkey)
The first city making festival in Italy
For all city lovers
Utopian Hours is the one festival that tells stories about “making cities”: the ideas, projects and places that life improving scenarios in the cities across the world.
For three days the festival gives voice to the protagonists of these changes: city makers, activists, architects and innovators share their experience, stimulating new visions of Turin’s future and a reflection on the concept of the city.
Utopian Hours launches a manifesto for a new city making that introduces new concepts and invites guests and audience to suggest keywords for a new way of conceiving human evolution.
Read the 7th edition’s manifesto.

We are back at Centrale Lavazza!
Once again this year the Utopian Hours festival will take place at La Centrale della Nuvola Lavazza. Stratosferica will provide a safe and comfortable environment that will allow the public and guests to enjoy the event in the best possible way.
