Rent a researcher
“Rent a Researcher” is an opportunity to meet researches in an interesting, engaging and approachable way: a number of Italian scholars are available for one-to-one meetings with a limited number of PhD candidates and young academics for exchange and tutoring activities.
These are the scholars who will be available
to meet with you:
Matteo BASSO
Matteo Basso, urban and regional planner, Ph.D in Regional Planning and Public Policy, is assistant professor of Urban and regional planning at IUAV University of Venice and visiting professor at Venice International University. His research focuses mainly on quantitative and qualitative analyses of urban transformations and land-use changes, and their interaction with planning processes. In 2017 he has published Grandi eventi e politiche urbane. Governare «routine eccezionali»: un confronto internazionale, Guerini: Milano. He has been visiting scholar at University of Westminster, London and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai. He is a member of INU (Italian National Institute of Urban Planning) and INU-Veneto Region section’s coordinator of the Journal Urbanistica Informazioni.
Languages: Italian and English
Keywords: land-use changes, planning processes, urban and regional transformations,
Michele CAMPAGNA
Michele Campagna (Msc Civil Engineering, PhD Planning Support Systems) is full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, where he teaches spatial planning, geodesign, and GIScience in the curricula of Architecture and of Engineering (Bsc, Msc, PhD). Authors of over 130 publications, his main research interests concern the innovation of digital technologies in spatial planning and design, including geodesign, Metaplanning, Planning Support Systems, authoritative and volunteered geographic information, and Spatial data Infrastructures. On these subjects he delivered invited key-notes, lectures and seminars in Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, and United States of America. He is member of the International Geodesign Collaboration, and coordinator of the AESOP Thematic Group New Technologies and Planning
Languages: Italian and English (and very little Spanish, French, Portuguese and Greek)
Keywords: communicative plannign, geodesign, new techonology in planning, planning support systems,
Francesco CHIODELLI
Francesco Chiodelli is associate professor of urban and legal geography at the University of Turin, where he directs OMERO – Interdepartmental Research Centre for Urban Studies. His research focuses mainly on the social effect of spatial regulation, in particular with reference to questions of pluralism, diversity, informality/illegality. Currently, he is working mainly on different manifestations of illegality and informality in the urban and housing sphere: corruption in urban planning, criminal infiltration in urban governance, housing informality, unauthorized housing construction, occupation of public housing. He investigated also the spatial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem. His papers have appeared in renowned international journals, such as Political Geography, Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Geography, Planning Theory, Town Plan- ning Review, Progress in Planning, Housing Studies. He has recently published Shaping Jerusalem. Spatial planning, politics and the conflict (Routledge, 2017) and co-edited The Illicit and Illegal in the Governance and Development of Cities and Regions: Corrupt Places (Routledge, 2018).
Languages: Italian, English and French
Keywords: illegality/informality, urban conflicts, diversity and migrations, housing, legal geography,
Giancarlo COTELLA (not available)
Giancarlo Cotella is associate professor at Politecnico di Torino. His research positions in the field of comparative spatial planning studies, and in particular on the comparison of territorial governance of spatial planning systems in Europe and beyond. He devoted particular attention to the exploration of the mutual influence between European Union and domestic territorial governance and spatial planning, and of the resulting mechanisms of Europeanization. Through the years, the geographical scope of his research has interested Central and Eastern European Countries, the Western Balkan Region, but also Japan and Latin America. His work borrows from the toolbox of new institutionalism, and in particular sociological/discursive institutionalism, historical institutionalism, and actor-centred institutionalism. Giancarlo participated to a high number of international research projects on the above matters, among which it is worth to mention ESPON SUPER, ESPON URRUC, ESPON COMPASS, ESPON ReSSI, MILESECURE-2050, ESPON TANGO, ESPON Smart-Ist, LisGo, ESPON 2.3.2 Governance, ESPON 2.3.1 ESDP. He taught and researched in Germany, Poland, Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Turkey and Japan, and published widely in the international scientific literature. He’s actively involved in the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) since 2005, first as a member of the AESOP Executive Committee and now as national representative for Italy
Languages: Italian, English and Polish
Keywords: comparative spatial planning systems research, europeanization, new institutionalism,
Luciano DE BONIS
Luciano De Bonis is Associated professor at Università del Molise
Languages: Italian and English
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Giovanni ATTILI (not available)
Giovanni Attili works as an Urban Planning Associate Professor at the University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy) where he teaches “Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems” and “Sustainable Development”. In the last years he has been working in the field of urban analysis and in the construction of planning processes aimed at building social bonding through learning and knowledge exchange. Among his publications: Rappresentare la città dei Migranti (Jaca Book), Il Pianeta degli Urbanisti (DeriveApprodi, with E. Scandurra), Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning (Springer, with L. Sandercock), Civita. Senza aggettivi e senza altre specificazioni (Quodlibet), Civitonia. Riscrivere la fine o dell'arte del capovolgimento (Neroeditions, with S. Calderoni).
Languages: Italian and English
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Lidia DECANDIA (not available)
Lidia Decandia, PHD, è Professore Associato presso il DADU di Alghero (Università degli Studi di Sassari) dove insegna Progetto e Contesto Storia del territorio e della città. Nella stessa facoltà ha fondato e dirige: Matrica, laboratorio di fermentazione urbana. È membro del collegio dei docenti del Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria dell’Architettura e dell’Urbanistica presso l’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Tra i suoi ultimi volumi: I territori marginali e la quarta rivoluzione urbana. Il caso della Gallura, (con L. Lutzoni e C. Cannaos, Guerini Associati, 2017); Territori in trasformazione. Il caso dell’Alta Gallura, Donzelli, 2022.
Languages: Italian
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Gabriella ESPOSITO
Architect, PhD in Urban Planning and researcher at the CNR since 2001, she is Senior Researcher (2010) and member of the Scientific Board of IRISS since 2015. She developed research activities since 1994 in national and international universities and in 2000 started coordinating research groups and projects regarding heritage-led urban regeneration, multicultural city, urban safety and security, cohesion policies for territorial balancing. She is visiting scholar in European and USA universities and collaborates with several international research institutions. Since 2010 she is member of the AESOP TG Public Space and Urban Culture in which she has been coordinator (2015-2019) and is currently member of the Advisory Board. Dissemination and exploitation activities have been developed through: books and journal articles, editor and reviewer activities, conferences: as organizer, chair, scientific committee and keynote. She is member of the Managing Board of the Italian Scientific Society of Urban Planners (SIU) in which she coordinates the Thematic Group on Marginalized and In-between areas.
Among others teaching activities, she is developing academic courses in Italian universities since 1996 and internationally, since 2012, within IRSES Marie Curie projects, PhD courses and international summer schools. She is member of the Academic Board of the International Doctorate Programme Urban Regeneration and Economic Development. Is 2013 she has been granted by the Ministry of University and Education of the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale as Associate Professor in Urban Planning.
Languages: English, Italian
Keywords: democracy, futures, ideology,
Valeria FEDELI (not available)
Valeria Fedeli is full professor in urban planning at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Languages: Italian and English
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Filippo MAGNI
Filippo Magni (1985), Urban planner, PhD in Planning and Public Policies for the Territory at the Iuav University of Venice, Master's Degree in Planning at Iuav with double title of International Master in Estudios Territorials i de la Poblaciò issued by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently assistant professor (RTDa) in Urban Planning (ICAR / 20) where he teaches in the courses of Fundamentals of urban planning and Spatial Planning and Design for Climate Change. He is coordinator of the technical unit of the INTERREG MED 2014 – 2020 projects “COEVOLVE, LIFE “MASTER ADAPT” and INTERREG Italia-Croatia “ADRIADAPT”. Since 2011 he has been actively collaborating with various research groups operating at national level on issues related to territorial resilience, including Iuav Planning Climate Change Lab of which he is a senior member, the Young Planner Ectp-ceu network and the RESILIENCE LAB of the Politecnico di Milano. Since September 2019 he has also been associate researcher for the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation.
His research focuses on the need to redesign urban planning tools and policies through the study of governance and public policy orientation systems, recognized as the main vectors capable of directing urban development towards resilience to climate change.
Languages: Italian and English
Keywords: spatial planning, climate change and climate proof design & planning, energy and environmental planning, coastal zone management, policy design for tourism sustainability, policies for landscape management,
Leonardo CHIESI (not available)
Leonardo Chiesi graduated in Social Sciences in the School of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri” in the University of Florence. He holds a PhD in Methodology of the Social Sciences from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. He is associate professor of sociology in the School of Architecture of the University of Florence and visiting associate professor in the Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley. He is interested in social research methods for architecture, urban design and planning and he studies how sociology and design can be mutually engaged. He is the scientific coordinator of Master Degree in “Futuro vegetale. Piante, innovazione sociale e progetto” (futurovegetale.it )
Languages: Italian and English
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Stefano MORONI
Stefano Moroni is full professor in planning at Milan Polytechnic University. His main research interests include planning theory, applied ethics and philosophy of the law. He is a member of the editorial board of the international journal Planning Theory. Recent publications: (with G. Brunetta), Contractual Communities in the Self-Organizing City, Springer, 2012; (with C. Basta), Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment, Springer, 2013; (with D.E. Andersson), Cities and Private Planning: Property Rights, Entrepreneurship and Transaction Costs, Edward Elgar, 2014; (with D. Weberman), Space and Pluralism. Can Our Cities Today be Places of Toleration?, Central European University Press, 2016
Languages: Italian and English
Keywords: complexity and self-organization, just city, sustainable intentional communities,
Camilla PERRONE
PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Design (2002); associate professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florence (UniFi) Italy. Founding Director of the Research Laboratory of Critical Planning and Design and Coordinator of the PhD Program on Urban and Regional Planning at Unifi.She has served numerous academic roles at UniFi, University of Tübingen, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW in Sydney, York University in Toronto (as visiting PhD student). She has published articles and books on spatial planning, interactive design and urban governance, urban diversity, processes of multiscalar regional urbanization, fixity and motion problematique for new sciences of cities. Publications includes “Diver-City” (Franco Angeli, Milano 2010); “Città in movimento. Dimensioni dell’urbano oltre le soglie del terzo millennio” (Guerini 2019 - in corso di pubblicazione); ”Innumerable Types of Diversity: The Potential of Latent Urbanity”, in Ressources urbaines latentes (Mètis Presses, Paris, 2016); "Space Matters: Spatial Implications of Post-metropolitan Transition" (with Giancarlo Paba), 2017, in A. Balducci, V. Fedeli, F. Curci, Eds., Post-Metropolitan Territories: Looking for a New Urbanity, London: Routledge; “Post-metropoli – tra dotazioni e flussi, luoghi e corridoi, fixity and motion” (with Giancarlo Paba and Paolo Perulli), 2017, in A. Balducci, V. Fedeli, F. Curci, Eds.: Guerini, Ripensare la questione urbana: Guerini.
Languages: Italian and English
Keywords: diversity, regional urbanisation, urban governance,
Barbara PIZZO
Barbara Pizzo is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at Sapienza University of Rome. She works mainly at the interface between planning theory and practice, with a critical orientation. Her interests are in the processes of socio-spatial structuration, the relationships between spatial planning and socio-economic changes, politics and policies. She works in interdisciplinary research groups and networks, where planning is considered together with policy analysis, political economy and ecology, so that keeping together the ‘How’ with the ‘Why’ of urban transformation processes progressively became a distinct feature of her research and teaching approach.
Languages: Italian and English
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Laura SAIJA
Laura Saija is an Associate professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of Catania, Italy. She has previously worked as Assistant professor for the City and Regional Planning Department at the University of Memphis, TN (USA), where she had previously served as a EU-funded Marie Curie Global Research Fellow. Her main research interest is on the theory and the practice of Engaged scholarship, with a focus on action-research, in the field of Community Environmental Planning. She has worked on the role played by research in promoting more-than-human development in long-term lagging regions, characterized by long-term power inequalities. She is currently working on the relationship between planning and civic organizing in contemporary Europe.
Languages: Italian and English
Keywords: action-research, circular economy, planning theory,
Filippo SCHILLECI
Filippo Schilleci (Palermo, 1963). Degree in Architecture (1987). Master in Garden Architecture and Landscape Planning, University of Palermo (1995). PhD in Urban Planning, University of Palermo (1999). Research Fellow in Urban Planning, Department of City and Region – University of Palermo (1999). Researcher in Urban Planning, Department of Archi- tecture – University of Palermo (2002). Associate Professor, in Urban Planning, Department of Architecture – University of Palermo (2015). Full Professor, in Urban Planning, Department of Architecture – University of Palermo (2018). Member of INU (Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica) since 1991. Member of SdT (Società dei Territorialisti e delle Territorialiste) since 2011 and Member of the Scientific Committee since 2018. National Representative in the Council of Representatives (CoRep) in the Association of European School of Planning (AESOP) (2018).
Languages: Italian and English
Keywords: ecological network planning, green infrastructures, protected areas,
Iacopo ZETTI
Iacopo Zetti is associate professor of Urban and regional planning at the University of Florence.
Master degree in architecture in 1994 and PhD in Urban, territorial and environmental His research activity covers several fields, as: GIS and cartography as knowledge instruments for urban planning; the participation of inhabitants to the urban project and to planning policies; re-use and rehabilitation of marginal spaces and in-between areas; photography as a tool for urban survey.
He is currently the coordinator of a research team for the H2020 EU project "PHOENIX. The rise of the citizen voices for a Green Europe" planning in 2000.
Languages: Italian and English
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Anna MARSON
Full Professor in urban and regional planning at Università Iuav di Venezia, where she coordinates the PhD program in territorial planning and public policies and teaches courses/studio works in heritage and landscape planning and policies.
Among her recent research projects, the coordination for Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo of an Experiemental project for the implementation of Piedmont landscape plan strategies (2018-2023) https://www.compagniadisanpaolo.it/it/progetti/piano-paesaggistico/
As a scientific councillor of Fondazione Scuola dei Beni Culturali, she is currently in the steering committee of an ongoing national research on the implementation of landscape plans and regulations in Italy.
She is the author of numerous national and international articles on territorial planning and policies, besides a number of books as author or editor. Member of Scientific Board of Scienze del territorio, a Scientific Journal for Urban and Regional Planning and other disciplines.
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Elena OSTANEL
Assistant Professor in urban planning at Università Iuav di Venezia, she has been Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in partnership with the University of Toronto and TUDelft. At IUAV, she teaches courses in community planning and she is the vice-director of a Master Course on urban regeneration/social innovation.
She is the author of numerous national and international articles on diversity and urban inclusion/exclusion, urban regeneration/social innovation and innovation in planning.
Among her recent publications: (2020) Community-based responses to unjust processes of neighbourhood change in Parkdale, Toronto in Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism. London and Toronto, UCL Press and (2023), Innovation in strategic planning: social innovation and co-production under a common analytical framework, in Planning Theory 0(0).
Languages: Italian and English
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Carla TEDESCO
Carla Tedesco, PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture and Art - IUAV University of Venice, where she was the coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Planning and Urban Design (2019-2022).
She is a member of the Board of the European Urban Research Association. She is a member of the Board of the Italian Association of Town Planners. She was a member of the Commission for the reform of the national legislation on spatial planning, urban standards and building regulations, set up at the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility (2021-2022).
Her main research interests include: innovation in urban policy and planning; EU city networks and mobile urbanism; urban regeneration, community involvement and social innovation.
She has researched and published on these topics as part of national and international research groups.
Languages: Italian and English
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Davide PONZINI
Davide Ponzini is a Full Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano, and the director of the TAU-Lab [ http://www.tau-lab.polimi.it/ ]. He has been a visiting scholar at Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and Sciences Po and Visiting Professor at TU Munich. His research activity focuses on planning theory, urban and cultural policy, architectural design and heritage preservation. Co-editor (with Harvey Molotch) of the book The New Arab Urban (New York University Press), editor of The Faces of Contemporary Cities (Rizzoli New York) and author of the book Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Cities, Plan, Transform, and Learn (Routledge).
Languages: Italian and English
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Daniela DE LEO
Full professor in Urban Planning@ DiArch Federico II, Napoli
Languages: Italian and English
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Marco PICONE
Marco Picone is full professor of urban geography and geopolitics at the University of Palermo, where he teaches Urban Geography, Social Geography, Participatory Practices and Geopolitics of Migrations. His research focuses mainly on urban neighbourhoods, participation for the involvement of young adults and popular geopolitics.
Languages: Italian and English (along with some French)
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Carlo CELLAMARE (not available)
Full Professor in Town Planning at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Director of the Laboratory of Urban Studies “Dwelling Territories” and of the scientific journal Tracce Urbane. Member (and referent person) of the staff of the PhD Programme in Town Planning of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Scientific coordinator of several national and international research.
His research items are the study, even with an interdisciplinary and action-research approach, of the relationship between town planning and everyday life, of the regeneration of the peripheries.
Among his publications: Fare città. Pratiche urbane e storie di luoghi (2008), Progettualità dell’agire urbano (2011), Fuori raccordo. Abitare l’altra Roma (ed., 2016), Città fai-da-te. Tra antagonismo e cittadinanza. Storie di autorganizzazione urbane (2019), Periferia. Abitare Tor Bella Monaca (& F. Montillo, 2020), Abitare le periferie (2020).
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Carlo PISANO (not available)
Carlo Pisano is assistant professor (tenure track) of Urbanism at the University of Florence where he coordinates the Laboratory of Regional Design. He holds a PhD from the University of Cagliari in collaboration with TUDelft and the European Master in Urbanism (EMU). His field of research focuses on the issues of strategic urban projects, visioning praxes at the metropolitan level and their multi-scalar relationship. Among the most significant experiences in which he has been involved are the masterplans of New Zuid in Antwerp and the visions of Brussels 2040 and for the Great Moscow with Studio Secchi-Viganò, the Wienerstrasse masterplan in Linz, the Mondeggi estate regeneration and the Strategic and the Territorial Metropolitan Plan of Florence.
Languages: Italian and English
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Loris SERVILLO
Professor in urban and territorial planning at the Polytechnic of Turin, he spent ten years of his academic life at the University of Leuven (KUL), in Belgium, and two years as a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship researcher at the University College of London (Bartlett School of Planning) and at Science Po in Paris (Center for European Studies).He has been the coordinator of the FULL Interdepartmental Centre since 2022.His expertise is built through the intersection of three domains: (a) spatial planning studies, (b) territorial and socio-spatial analyses, and (c) community-led and strategic spatial planning initiatives in Europe.He has devoted his research to the issues of territorial cohesion and the role of the EU cohesion policies in spatial dynamics, the rise of lagging behind places and territorial initiatives dedicated to marginal(ised) areas, the design of multilevel governance processes and tailored arenas for the activation of local development strategies, and the implementation of integrated urban and territorial redevelopment programs
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Stefano BORGO
Stefano Borgo is Head of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) and manager of the CNR-ISTC branch in Trento. He studied mathematics and informatics at the University of Padova (IT), Indiana University (USA), and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT). His research focuses on applied ontology and knowledge representation across socio-technical and cyber-physical systems with emphasis on model construction and interoperability. Application areas include engineering design, robotics, urban planning, and architecture. He co-authored the DOLCE ontology and published about 200 papers in conferences and journals. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Applied Ontology journal and of the Semantic Web journal. He is member of the Advisory Board of the International Association on Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) where in the past he served in the Executive Council. He is a technical expert for ISO and IEEE, and for the Italian standardisation institute UNI.
Languages: Italian and English
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Ferdinando FAVA (not available)
Ferdinando Fava is full professor of urban anthropology in the University of Padua (Italy) at the Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences (DiSSGeA). He is a research member of the Laboratoire Anthropologie/Architecture (LAA) of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-La Villette (France) and the Laboratoire Architecture Ville Urbanisme Environnement (LAVUE). Central to his research is the analysis of the socio-institutional processes of production of urban marginal areas (paradigmatic in this regard is his research on the Zen public housing complex in Palermo) as well as critical reflection on the epistemology, ethics and politics of fieldwork that these areas and their inhabitants wish to understand. Among his latest publications: L’ascolto antropologico: epistemologia, etica e (in)giustizia, Antropologia Medica, vol. 24, n. 55, pp. 249-281 (2023); Beyond the Presence: Dwelling with People and with their Places, in Cognetti, F., Marango., E., (eds), Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration. Beyond Participation in Large-scale Social Housing Estates, Springer, pp. 85-97 (2023); Il non-luogo del desiderio e l’equivoco dello spatial turn in Dimpflmeier F., Aria M. (eds), È ora di andare. Dialoghi nell’assenza in onore di Alberto Sobrero, Roma, Centro d’Informazione e Stampa Universitaria (CISU) (2022); El antropólogo en la escena etnográfica. Implicación y lazo emergente (Editorial SB, 2021); Illusion of Immediate Knowledge or Spiritual Exercise? The Dialogic Exchange and Pierre Bourdieu's Ethnography in Biscaldi A., Matera V. (eds), Ethnography. A Theoretically Oriented Practice (Palgrave, 2021)
Languages: Italian and English
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