Cutting new directions

Cutting to Build
Transforming business through identity and conflict.
Tuesday, June 9th 2026 — Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Sala del Foro Romano, Milan
How can we change without losing our identity?

ULLMANN promotes a dialogue between different perspectives — business, art and social practices — exploring the meaning of cutting as a generative act.

In this gesture, the theme of identity — individual, collective and entrepreneurial — intertwines with relationships, conflict and the ability to imagine new directions.

Enrico Ullmann

Represents the third generation leading the family business, founded in Genoa in 1931. For many years, he has been committed to the company’s growth and innovation, guiding its evolution in a constantly changing market. In this conversation, he brings the perspective of an entrepreneur who faces the challenges of generational transition, organizational change, and the need to shape new directions without losing the company’s identity.

Dominic Barter

For more than twenty-five years, Dominic Barter has been developing restorative justice and mediation practices in complex settings, ranging from marginalized communities to public institutions. He collaborated with the Brazilian Ministry of Justice on the development of national restorative justice programs and served as President of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, founded by Marshall Rosenberg. In this conversation, he brings a perspective that is unusual in the business world: seeing conflict not as a problem to be avoided, but as a process to be engaged with and transformed.

NO CURVES

Is one of the leading international exponents of tape art. The event took place in the setting of his solo exhibition, EGO – From Adhesive Tape to the Great Masterpieces, where his essential compositions reinterpret the classical iconography of the masterpieces of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana through a contemporary visual language. In this conversation, he offers a reflection on the theme of identity, understood as a continuous process of construction, transformation, and redefinition.