1. Letizia Battaglia

Photographer Letizia Battaglia, the first Italian woman to work as a photojournalist, looks back on a career spent documenting Palermo under the mafia and the ordinary city behind the violence.

2. Mario Cucinella

Architect Mario Cucinella explains how his international studio of architects and engineers puts energy and environmental questions at the centre of every project, and how a building can carry the beauty and the resources of the place it stands in.

3. Michelangelo Pistoletto

One of Italy's foremost living painters and sculptors traces the road from his beginnings in advertising, through his encounter with American pop art, to the invention of Arte Povera.

5. Piero Lissoni

Milan, New York, Paris: the designer's studio works across architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, from private houses and yachts to residential schemes and large hotels.