Politecnico di Milano

Faculty Member, Department of Architectural Design

Associate Professor

School of Architettura e Società

About

Personal researches focus mainly on domestic interiors, questioning relations among culture of dwelling, domestic architecture and modernity, with specific attention to Nordic countries. I am also interested in museography and in preserving and diffusing collective memory and cultural identity, connecting the museographic issues with the domestic ambit. From 2004, within the area of teaching and research “acting upon the existent”, I am promoter of PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE @ POLIMI, a research & operative group that puts the resources of Architecture in the service of the Public Interest. Identifying and proposing solutions for practical problems of human interaction with built environment, but also acting (through “Active-actions”) as a catalyst for public discourse through the design of public spaces and services for a better dwelling.
See:
http://www.lablog.org.uk/category/diploma-works/
http://www.lablog.org.uk/category/02_year-books/

On going researches:
From 2006 is promoter of IFW-Interior Forum World an academic network and a web platform for research edited by the PhD in Interiors at POLIMI.
http://www.interiorsforumworld.net

From 2009: "Ghost towns: possible re-use strategies"
http://www.abarchive.info/

From 2010: “Conflict Heritage Archaeology” (National grant)

From 2011: MeLa: “European Museums and Libraries in/for the Age of Migrations” (EU-FP7 Granted)
http://www.mela-project.eu
http://www.mela-blog.net/

list of main publications:
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr96-36859

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