The Author

My name is Fabio Mariani. I was born in Giussano in 1984, but Seregno is my center: the place that shaped me and the lens through which I read the world. Here I learned the value of work, discretion, and a presence that doesn’t need to be announced.

From that provincial heart in the Nothern Italy between Milan and Como my path took shape: a desire to go further without severing my roots. In 2008, I graduated in Environmental and Territorial Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. Como, with its mountains and the changing voice of the wind across the lake, became my first complex map.

I chose geomatics: understanding how we observe, measure, and narrate reality. There I discovered that every truth depends on perspective, on data, on the tools we use, and that every map is a choice. In that classroom, faces from Asia, Africa, and across Europe taught me to question overly comfortable certainties.

My professional life began in energy and renewables: concrete technology, immediate responsibility, numbers turning into decisions. Then I stopped focusing only on my instrument and began to conduct the orchestra, people with different cultures, languages, and sensibilities. That’s where I understood that facts are never neutral, but constructed narratives.

My curiosity has never stopped: technology, computing, geopolitics, history, cinema. Paths that seem different, yet are united by the same drive: to understand the systems and invisible forces that shape what we see, believe, and fear.

This is why I write. To bring complexity and storytelling together. To show a world where geopolitics, technology, and power are not a backdrop, but a constant pressure. A world where truths compete, overlap, and change form. I’m not looking for simple answers: I’m looking for tension, ambiguity, the exact point where a story forces us to think.

Because today, the question is no longer “what happened,” but “who decides how it is told.”