Davide Salamino is an architect and Design Manager at Lombardini22 in Milan. He has spent twelve years working in the French market, between Paris and Rotterdam, contributing to the establishment of MVRDV's Paris office, where he worked as project leader on iconic competitions and built projects across several French cities. His career has revolved around two recurring themes: the ability to build strong design consistency and translate it into real buildings, and the design of the public realm, from the urban square to cable-based urban ecomobility infrastructure. Today, he leads multidisciplinary technical coordination across a range of public and private commissions. The thread running through all of these projects is a single question: under what conditions can an intervention succeed in generating optimism in a community?