Ico Migliore, Italian architect and designer, three-time winner of Compasso d’Oro Award, is Professor at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano and Chair Professor at Dongseo University in Busan (South Korea). He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of Franco Albini Foundation. In the last years, he was appointed by the Italian Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs as ambassador of Italian Design in Doha, Seoul, Bogotà and Luxembourg. He took part in several conventions and exhibitions such as: “Metamorph – IX Biennale di Venezia”, the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice, and the Italian Pavilion at the 22nd International Triennale Exhibition of Milan “Broken Nature: Design takes on Human Survival” (2019), where he was art director and co-curator. He was one of nine members of the award jury of the BIE (Bureau International des Expositions) for Expo Milano 2015 and he has been part of the Scientific Committee of the Biennale di Architettura of Pisa, in 2019.

Ico Migliore is founder and director of the Politecnico di Milano’s research unit DeCuPr - Design for Cultural Proximity since 2020, which is focused on the theme of urban reactivation and cultural sharing, investigating new futurability design scenarios on various scales. Together with DeCuPr he has been selected to participate in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2023, where ten projects realized by his students from the New Interiors II course were on display.

He is the co-founder with Mara Servetto of Migliore+Servetto, a Milan based design studio that is internationally renowned for its spatial and communication design works. He has carried out over 800 projects in 21 countries, obtaining prestigious international awards, including 13 Red Dot Design Awards (GER), 2 German Design Awards (GER) and 3 IDA - International Design Awards (USA). The studio is behind several major cultural destinations in Italy and abroad, such as the Natural History Museum of Milan, the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the ADI Design Museum in Milan and the Chopin Museum in Warsaw. He designed the interiors of the new headquarters of The Human Safety Net, the humanitarian foundation of the Generali Group, at the Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco in Venice, and the new Electa bookshops inside the Colosseum Archaeological Park in Rome. In terms of urban design, he conceived the project for the Waterfront Door / Into the Ocean and the Blue Line Park in Busan in South Korea. In 2006 the Studio together with Italo Lupi signed Look of the City, the Olympic outfit created for the city of Turin to host the XX Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: one of the largest ever developed public coordinated image projects including more than 250 groups of installations that punctuate the nodal points in the city.

Ico Migliore has contributed to discussions on the evolution of interior, communication and urban design with texts and articles, among them: “Museum Seed. The Futurability of Cultural Places” (2024) Electa, “Drawings” (2019) A&C Publishing, “Time to Exhibit” (2019) Franco Angeli and “Spacemorphing” (2007) Five Continents.