Massimo Bignardi trained in the 1970s at the University of Salerno with Enrico Crispolti. He teaches Contemporary Art History and Environmental Art and Landscape Architecture at the University of Siena, where he directed the School of Specialization in Historical-Artistic Heritage. Among his recent publications: Praticare la città (2013); Autoritratto urbano (2017); Siena laboratorio del contemporaneo (2018); Terrazze al sole (2019).