Would you like to introduce yourself to Vivishenzhen’s readers, please? Who are you and where do you come from? Can you tell us about your professional and academic path before moving to China? My name is Manfredi Valenti and I was born in Sicily. To be more precise in Palermo. I studied at Universita’ di Architettura of Palermo and RWTH University of Achen, Germany. My first steps in the job market were in Northern Europe. I did a lot of work in the Netherlands. Mecanoo, on