Alberto Cervesato is an architect, with a PhD in Architectural and Urban Composition from the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste (Italy), and a research fellow and adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine (Italy). He works on issues related to the enhancement of architectural and urban heritage, with a focus on the sustainability issues of regeneration projects.

Tommaso Antiga is an architect and PhD candidate in Architectural and Urban Composition at the Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste (Italy); he previously graduated from the Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Udine (Italy) with a thesis work in the form of a discourse around the theme of death and its places (supervisor: Prof. Giovanni La Varra). His current research focuses on the architectural themes of urban regeneration through renaturalization and urban forestry, and also on other correlated macro-themes such as cultural anthropology, ecology and nonviolence.

Elizaveta Proca holds a master's degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Udine (Italy), with a research and design thesis on the transformation of an abandoned village into an innovative prison model (supervisors: Prof. Giovanni La Varra, Dott. Alberto Cervesato). The research topics in which she is currently interested deal with the abandonment of villages in territories far from the centers providing essential services and all the related problems that this entails. At the same time, she is interested in the challenges faced by today's prison architecture.