9th National Conference – buildingSMART Italia

April 15, 2026

April 16th marks my first collaboration with buildingSMART Italia. We’ve been working in the same sector for ages, and yet we never crossed paths.

I’m not fond of everyone that’s been invited to speak but I am proud of my co-host, the brilliant engineer Silvia Gioja, and my guest will be a local entrepreneur who’ll speak about the difficulties of finding professionals that are as skilled as the market requires, and of the challenges of integrating infrastructural know-how and the technical capabilities needed for information modelling, everything in a speech titled BIMposter? which really makes me laugh.

I’ll also have the pleasure of bestowing an excellence award to some former colleagues, which is always nice. It’s happening in Rome.

books and literature

The Bicentennial Man (and other stories)

If not for the single story where they cure depression by blasting jazz against brainwaves (not how depression works, I’m afraid), one of the best collections I’ve read so far. It has the sequel of “Marooned off Vesta”, one of Asimov’s the best stories of

July 12, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Rebecca Ferrier’s The Salt Bind

Rebecca Ferrier’s The Salt Bind is a historical fantasy novel, set on the storm-lashed Cornish coast and steeped in folklore, sea magic, and women’s lives on the edge of the sea. It follows Kensa — daughter of a smuggler and with a regularly-complicated relationship with

July 11, 2026 9:00 am

art and fashion

Andrea Pazienza — They Don’t Always Die

At the beginning of this month, I was in Rome with some friends: we had heard that Danny Elfman himself was going to be on stage at the Auditorium, performing some pieces from his soundtracks, and we’re hardcore fans (I have mixed feelings about the

July 10, 2026 9:00 am