The Maarten Van Severen Chair (MVSC) was founded in 2015 by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) at University College Ghent and the Maarten Van Severen Foundation with the aim of conveying the relevance and significance of the designers work for today's designers. 

Francesca Torzo was the fourth designer to hold the Chair in 2019. She gave a lecture and a masterclass, summerized in this fourth volume of the MVSC cahier.