Grants & Fellowships

2023/06/21 Smart and Coop. 1° Place with Alibi.

2023/07/24 Social Tides Aspire Italy. Promoted by Google and INCO

01/11/2020-01/11/2023 PhD Research Scholarships funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. “Glocal Tools: Temporary interventions in urbanism and architecture. Experiments in socio-spatial co-production”. Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) and Dipartimento di Architettura of the University of Florence (DIDA-UNIFI).

2.12.2019 - 02.05.2020 Arquia Foundation Fellow

01.03.2019 - 15.10.2019 Researcher for the University of Aveiro for the Masterplan of the Campus of The University about transportation and public space

Work

01.01.2020-01.11.2020 Curator of the Titti Maschietto Archive.Archive composed by the work of Titti Maschietto and of the work of the radical architecture group UFO

2.12.2019 - 02.05.2020 Aires Mateus Associados, Lisbon

12.11.2018 - 07.12.2018 Architect for the office Oitoo, Porto

05.2014 - 07.2016 Co-founder fo the collective ab-USO

09.2015 - 02.2016 Intern for Officina Abitare, Firenze

09.2012 - 06.2013 Assistant for the artist Andrea Mizzau

Publications & Conferences

Ceci n’est pas un projet. Prossima Apertura: un cantiere aperto per la produzione collettiva di spazio e socialità.in “Recupero, manutenzione e innovazione dell’ambiente costruito”, La Scuola di Pitagora, 2023. To be published soon.

Colors in contemporary urban praxis. in Diskursiv n°2 Colors, Graz, 2023. To be printed soon.

In the light of Lumen. How to get a 30 years loan of use for a common space in Florence. in Anastasia Karandinou (ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference Repurposing Places for Social and Environmental Resilience. Counterarchitecture in collaboration with UEL and Arup, 2023. ISBN (ebook): 9781739268107 pag.39-42. Written with Setti Cristina, Jacopo Ammendola.

Historic Ludic Landscapes, in Restauro Archeologico, Numero speciale (2022), Atti del convegno internazionale 1972-2022. Il patrimonio mondiale alla prova del tempo. A proposito di gestione, salvaguardia e sostenibilità, Firenze University Press, Firenze, ISSN 2465-2377, Vol. II, p. 242-247 Written with Jacopo Ammendola, Benedetta Masiani

Picnic Safari. in Orizzontale+Atto (Ed.). Around Tables, Vuoto, ISSUE #4, 2023.

Tactical Urbanism and DIY Architecture for a gentle urban revolution. Lambert Academic Publishing, 2021. ISBN: 978-620-4-71826-2

Gated Urbanism Everything you wish you knew about urbanism* (*and have never been told). 2022.

From Commons to Urban Commons Complexity and Contradiction in the Translation of a Concept in Nobile, Maria Luna (ed). “Commons”, UOU Scientific Journal, ISSUE #01 June 2021. ISNN:2697-1518 DOI: 10.14198/UOU

Touristocracy or The Death and Life of Great Tourist-Historic Cities. In Designing Heritage Tourism Landscapes Conference (DHTL Conference), ” ‘Sense of Past and Sense of Place. Designing Heritage Tourism’. Lettera 22, Siracusa, 2022. ISBN 978-88-6242-673-2

Loggias and Benches in Florence. Magnificence between public and private interests during the Renaissance. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, in the panel Architecture and The Common Good, 13/04/2021.

Urbanismo tático e Arquitetura DIY no espaço público: uma abordagem leve na transformação da cidade. Master thesis at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, 06/11/2018.

Tents of stone: the metaphor of the tent in the use of structural concrete. International Symposium on Conceptual Design of Structures Sept, 2019,Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja, Madrid. Written with Papini, Lorenzo.

Dal Paesaggio al Posacenere. Scarto Zine #3

Touristocracy. The New DINSTionary, SpringSummer 2020 Concepts.

Tutor in workshops

As Organizer

06/05 - 09/05/2019 “Campus à medida” Workshop for FAUP students about the Campus de Santiago of the University of Aveiro

24/03 - 04/04/2019 “Workshop Autocostruzione ARK” self-building workshop in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence

As University tutor

03/2023 - 08/2023 2DESIGN FOR ALL! Installazioni ed eventi temporanei in autocostruzione per la diffusione della cultura dell’accessibilità

03/2022 - 01/2023 Urban layers Firenze lungo le mura. Laboratorio di Architettura e Autocostruzione.

As researcher/assistant of Orizzontale

LuOgo, Lugo, 06/2022

Civico Civico, Laboratorio Umano di Rigenerazione Territoriale. 08/2021 Riesi.

Cento Workshop, 150 anni di Valle Giulia. 09/2021Università di Valle Giulia, Roma

Spaziature Comuni. 09/2021 Giardini Luzzati, Genova.

Lectures about public space

18/02/2023 Architecture and Public Space. A lesson about public space to seventeen years old highschool students after the lockdown. Alberti Art Highschool, Firenze.

08/12/2022 Concetti e Progetti: ampliare l’immaginario dei futuri attori (Concepts & Projects: engeging future users). Lesson presented in the workshop Design for All at UNIFI. https://www.architettura.unifi.it/upload/sub/seminari_tematici/2021/Locandina%20Seminario%20Pallium%20DESIGN%20FOR%20ALL!.pdf

15.06.2021 “Glocal Tools, dall’Architettura Radicale all’Urbanistica Incrementale”. Palazzo della Pilotta, Università di Parma.

04.01.2019 “The collectives of architecture and the public space”at FAUP, Porto.

26.09.2014 “The city and the other city”, at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence

07.05.2015 “Small Urban Regenerations”at the Faculty of Urbanism of the University of Florence

Competitions

2023/04/29 Abitare l’Arte, Crema.

2014/06 “Estate Fiorentina 2014”, Freematch, realized project with ab-USO.

2015/06 “Area ex Stianti” 3° Place with Costanza Farolfi.

Exhibitions

05.2021 cARTelloni Piacenza.

29.04-01.05.2021”Spazio Pubblico!?” StreetLevel Gallery, Firenze.

08.10.2019 - 21.12.2019 ANUÁRIA’19 - Master Thesis

08.10.2018 - 21.12.2018 ‘ANUÁRIA’18 - Afinidades’ Group project “[P]Repar Porto para as Pessoas”

11.2015 “TU35FI” Pecci Museum with ab-USO, performance at Officine Giovani in Prato

Education

09.2019 PhD student in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP)

09.2016 - 09.2018 Master degree at FAUP

09.2011 - 02.2016 Bachelor in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence

09.2009 - 02.2011 Student of Medicine in the University of Florence

07.2008 Italian and Frenc Highschool diploma (Maturità e Baccalauréat) at the International Highschool Gino Capponi in Florence

Languages

English IELTS: 7 || Italiano Mother Language || French Highschool Diploma B2 || Portuguese Master Thesis Diploma

Various

2021Researcher at Centro de Estudo Arquitetura e Urbanismo CEAU

2021-2022 Early career Advisor for public Space, City Space Architecture.