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Chiara Bergonzini
Chiara Bergonzini is a researcher interested in sustainability, urban food systems, gender issues and the interconnection between these topics. She has a BA in Intercultural Mediation and a MA in Japanese Studies, during which she had the chance to live and study abroad. After graduating and coming back to Italy, she completed a 2nd level Master course on Sustainability. She also works for EStà, an independent research centre in Milan that specializes on urban food systems and sustainability.
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Valeria Marina Borodi
Valeria Marina Borodi holds a BA in Sociology and a MA in Analysis of Social Processes from the University of Milan-Bicocca with a thesis on the public art scene of Milan. Here, she has been research assistant for the Department of Sociology and Social Research. Her research interests include urban governance, cultural policy, and artistic ecosystems. Additionally, she is passionate about extreme metal music and underground music scenes.
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Giacomo Campini
Giacomo Campini holds a MA in Analysis of Social Processes and BA in Sociology, both of them gained at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His main research interests entail public policies, media studies, the role of experts in contemporary societies and social control.
Email me: g.campini1@campus.unimib.it
Thalia Creac’H
After a preparatory class in literature and a double bachelor’s degree in history / political science, Thalia Creac’h joined a research master’s degree at Sciences Po Paris, with a specialization in comparative politics. She is interested in the issues of changes in spaces in the context of the arrival of new populations and conflicts of use between groups. She also studies the modes of regulation of local institutions and in particular the implementation of security policies.
Email me: t.creach@campus.unimib.it
Lilen Cecilia Scarpitta
Lilen Cecilia Scarpitta holds a BA in Language and International Relations from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and a MA in Area & Global Studies for International Cooperation from the University of Turin. Her interest in urban geography and social justice grew after she worked and studied abroad, namely at the University of Helsinki (2021), Umeå University (2020), Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (2019), and Beijing Language and Culture University (2016). Her research project focuses on urban division and social discrimination in Buenos Aires, where she grew up.
Email me: l.scarpitta@campus.unimib.it | Linkedin | RESEARCHGATE
Agustín David Wilner
Agustín Wilner holds a licentiate in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and a MA in Urban Studies from the National University of General Sarmiento. His interests include the political economy of housing in Latin America, processes of housing financialization, and mixed-methods research.
Email me: a.wilner@campus.unimib.it | LINKEDIN | Google Scholar
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Laura Abet
Laura Abet is the lawyer in charge of the Franco Bomprezzi Anti-Discrimination Center of LEDHA, an association that works to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It offers free legal advice and promotes innovation in local and national welfare policies, legislation and technical solutions. Her main interest is to fight inequalities and promote an inclusive policy, ending discrimination, violence and segregation of people with disabilities.
Email me: l.abet@campus.unimib.it, abet.legale@ledha.it
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Simone Cerulli
Simone Cerulli is a Roman anthropologist whose current field of study is the Bangladeshi community in Rome and London. He is teaching assistant of Urban Anthropology at Trinity College and vice-president of the Ethnographic Lab at Tor Vergata University of Rome. His research activities include migrants’ housing strategies, marginalisation and grassroots movements in the peripheries of Rome.
Email me: s.cerulli@campus.unimib.it
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Sergio D’Agata
Sergio D’Agata holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Catania and a MA in Organizations and Territory Management from the University of Trento. His main research interests are social innovation, urban development and the role of deliberative democracy in the environmental planning of local areas.
Email me: s.dagata2@campus.unimib.it
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Francesca Donati
Francesca Donati graduated in Social and International Political Sciences with a master’s degree in Local and Global development. She has been specializing for the last years on the comparative evaluation of urban public policies at the Urban Governance Lab in Sevilla. Her main research interests focus on the analysis of urban initiatives from a gender perspective in the South of Europe.
Email me: f.donati12@campus.unimib.it
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Laura Raccanelli
Laura Raccanelli graduated in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (MA) at the University of Turin, after a BA in Anthropology, Religion and Oriental Studies at the University of Bologna. Her main research interests are critical urban studies and ethnographic methods, center-periphery dialectic, spatial inequality and racial studies. She is currently focusing on the study of aesthetic capitalism in multicultural neighborhoods, connecting theories on territorial stigmatization with the approaches of critical whiteness studies.
Email me: l.raccanelli@campus.unimib.it
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Giorgia Ricondi
Giorgia Riconda holds a BA in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Turin and a MA in Sociology from the University of Milan-Bicocca). In order to deepen her interests, she studied abroad at the University of Seville (2013-2014), Central European University of Budapest (2018) and University of Granada (2020). In recent years she has begun to focus on Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, Human Geography and Tourism Studies.
Email me: g.riconda@campus.unimib.it
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Michela Voglino
Michela Voglino holds a double degree from the University of Turin and from Sciences Po Bordeaux: after her BA in international cooperation, she specialized in urban government and in cultural policies for local development. She is currently interested in visual research methods to analyse urban planning policies and regeneration processes in stigmatised neighbourhoods, through a focus on renderings and the real estate market.
Email me: m.voglino1@campus.unimib.it
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Marco Zabai
Marco Zabai holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Padua and a MSc in Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning from IUAV University of Venice. A proud Trevisan, he has always been interested in urban policies related to social activation, regeneration of abandoned buildings, local welfare and cultural integration, especially involving students and young people. His late main research interest focus on how housing welfare can influence the housing dynamics of young people within the urban environment.
Email me: m.zabai@campus.unimib.it
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Gabriele Morelli
Gabriele Morelli holds a BA in Political Science, a MA in International Relations, a 1st level university Master’s Degree in Economics of Cooperation at the University of Bologna. His research interests have developed towards critical political and social theory (post-colonial studies, world-system theory, global labour history, post-marxism), and more recently towards alternative economic practices and cooperativism.
Email me: g.morelli12@campus.unimib.it
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Giulia De Cunto
Graduated in architecture with a thesis on communities and local identities transformation in post-disaster reconstruction, she obtained a second level Master in Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation. She is now a Phd student, working on the theme of inner areas and alternative school models as drivers for local development.
Email me: g.decunto@campus.unimib.it
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Sebastian Burgos
Sebastian holds a BSc in Gastronomic Sciences, an international Joint master’s degree in Sustainable Territorial Development, an MSc in Local Development and a master’s in applied economics. His research interests focus on the interrelations between food, environment, and society, with key international experiences in urban planning, food policies and sustainability analysis.
Email me: s.burgosguerrero@campus.unimib.it
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Rita Jankowski
Rita Jankowski is passionate about urban mobility and believe that cycling can make our cities happier. Her research interests are inclusive cycling infrastructure, social inequalities, and urban management. She has studied international economics and international relations in Budapest and worked in Berlin for the past 3 years in consultancy and politics.
Email me: r.jankowski@campus.unimib.it
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Chiara Caterina Razzano
Chiara Razzano holds a BA in Human Geography and a MA in Tourism and Local Development. She has always been interested in understating dynamics and inequalities of the global food system and the implications for developing countries. Her research areas relate to food and agricultural sustainability, rural development and the role of farming communities in the African context.
Email me: c.razzano@campus.unimib.it
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Claudio Melli
After a BA in History, Claudio Melli obtained a MA in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences with an experimental thesis gained through an ethnographic experience in the Maldivian archipelago, where he still carries out study and research assignments. Always passionate about the geopolitics of South East Asia, he is interested in the relations between local leadership models and Islam. Through this new research project, he is dealing with the political and social role that sport assumes within the different spaces of power between the Maldivian capital and the suburbs, as well as with the development of urban projects that this brings with it.
Email me: c.melli@campus.unimib.it
Francesca Lacqua
Francesca Lacqua research interests mainly revolve around the relationship between mobility infrastructures and inequalities from a social, territorial and political point of view. Born in Genoa, after her BA in Humanities at the University of Pavia, she graduated in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography (MA) at the University of Turin with a research thesis called “Building distances. Infrastructures and mobility practices along the Turin – Genoa railway”.
Email me: f.lacqua@campus.unimib.it
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Pietro Agnoletto
Pietro Agnoletto holds a bachelor degree in Visual and Performing Arts and a masters degree in Film, Theater and Television studies obtained cum laude in Padova University. While studying in Padova he has been a visitor scholar at Duke University in North Carolina and attended a semester at Venice International University. He is currently working in the project “Greening the Visual” for Bicocca. His main interests are environmental humanities, in particular Italian ecocinema, and visual analysis of green media.
Email me: p.agnoletto@campus.unimib.it
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Tom Brennecke
Tom Brennecke has studied architecture in Germany, then urban studies in Estonia and Australia. He is currently doing his PhD at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he researches loneliness amongst young adults. Tom’s interests span in between emotions, interactions and the built environment.
Email me: t.brennecke@campus.unimib.it
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Ying Liu
Ying Liu is a PhD candidate in Urbeur-Urban Studies at University of Milan-Bicocca & PhD candidate in Sociology at Sciences Po Paris (with joint supervision). Her main research interests are: urban regeneration, urban governance, culture, politics and built environment, China
Email me: y.liu18@campus.unimib.it
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Arianna Luisa Cavaliere
Arianna Luisa Cavaliere holds a degree in primary teacher education from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Her main research interests are diversity and migration, European Union in everyday life, the relationship between children and urban space, and urban quality of life. She has been based in Austria for five years.
Email me: a.cavaliere4@campus.unimib.it
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Maria Chiara Cela
Since 2014 Maria Chiara Cela has been working in the field of public and social housing first at Milan City Council and then at DAR=CASA cooperative. She is currently developing a three-year research project on housing, social innovation and local participatory action in urban contexts.
Email me: m.cela@campus.unimib.it
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Greta Scolari
Greta Scolari got a MSc in Sociology at the University of Milano Bicocca. After graduating she carried out research activities in the field of sustainability. She is interested in socio-spatial dynamics, with particular attention to polycentricity and post-suburbanization. Her dissertation explores the central role of peripheral settlements in steering processes of regional urbanization through a focus on infrastructures and logistics.
Email me: g.scolari@campus.unimib.it
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Jacopo Targa
Jacopo Targa is an Urban Sociologist, and his main background is in sociological sciences.
His research is about urban commons and their potential for imagining alternative urban futures. He also has a general interest in researching post-car urbanism, the sociology of the bicycle and public transport.
Email me: j.targa@campus.unimib.it
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Emanuele Lucia
Emanuele Lucia has a bachelor’s degree in Social and Regional Development from the University of Quebec at Rimouski (UQAR) and a master’s degree in Knowledge Mobilization from the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS) in Montreal, Canada. His main research interests are the life courses of youth, from a territorial and community perspective.
Email me: e.lucia1@campus.unimib.it
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Lorenza Dodi
Lorenza Dodi got a MSc in Sociology at the University Milano-Bicocca and a MSc in Political Sciences – Social area at the University of Bologna. Her main interest of research are: qualitative research in Health care services, organizational ethnography, visual studies, risk management, urban studies.
Email me: l.dodi1@campus.unimib.it
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Federico Prestileo
Federico Prestileo (Palermo, 1991) graduated in 2018 in Local and Cultural Economics working on economic informality and gentrification in Palermo. His research topics are the touristification phenomenon in the Mediterranean area, with a specific focus on Short Term Rental Platforms such as AIRBNB, tourism agenda and gentrification, and digital geography. He’s an activist for SET – Southern Europe against Touristification.
Rosario Cutuli
Rosario Cutuli is a sociologist that works in social cooperation. He is currently working on Social Innovation with a focus on the partnership between public and private, from the perspective of the Foundational Economy. His research interests lie at the intersection between urban and welfare studies, with a focus on Foundational Economy.
Email me: r.cutuli1@campus.unimib.it
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Stefania Toso
Licensed Italian architect with work experience in urban and territorial planning in Turin, Milan and Vienna. She specialized in heritage management (2015, University of Turin) and carries out research projects on rural areas, landscape and heritage. As a Ph.D. student at Urbeur, her research topic deals with second homes tourism, place attachment and community resilience. She is also part of the working group ‘Inner areas and rural spaces’ of the IASSC (Institute for Advanced Study of Social Science). Passionate about everything visual, she lives in Asti and is among the co-founders of the Association for the Ecomuseum ‘Terre Astigiane’.
Email me: s.toso3@campus.unimib.it
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