ZPZ Partners is a design firm from Italy. It handles architecture, interior design, product design and research, and focuses on designs for innovative facilities and structures, both in terms of concept and formal qualitites. Senior partners are Claudia Zoboli and Michele Zini. They designed more than 25 schools for children age 0—6, in Italy and abroad (Japan, USA, Dubai, Mumbai), from the meta-project design to construction administration. Michele Zini is a contract professor at the design faculty at Milan Polytechnic Institute from 1998, professor at the Domus Academy Master Courses in Design and Urban Management from 1995 to 2002. Partners in extensive research were and are: Domus Academy Research Centre and Reggio Children.