Lucia Babina has a degree MSc in Modern Arts at the University of Bologna and a Masters Diploma in "International Cultural Management" at the University of Genova. Her work is focused on how culture and art can affect urban areas. Her projects produce visions, interpretations and actions that are affecting the way we see, use and inhabit the urban realm. She is founder of iStrike foundation in Rotterdam, an environmental organization aimed at creating multidisciplinary platforms of analysis, comparison, and international exchange. She is also part of the collective group Wilde Western which initiated the project The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and their Neighbor (Amsterdam, 2009), together with Marjetica Potrc and in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum.