Sapienza-Memotef
Filippo Celata (Principal Investigator) teaches economic geography, local development and spatial data analysis at the University of Roma La Sapienza. His research is about urban and regional economies and policies and, more recently, about the effects of digital platforms on cities, inequalities and sociospatial relations. He is chief editor  (…)

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Unisi
Cristina Capineri (UNISI scientific officer) is professor of geography at the Dipartimento Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive of the University of Siena, where she teaches human and economic geography and directs the Ladest Lab. She co-founded the Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science, and chaired the COST Action (…)

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Unina Federico II
Laura Lieto (UNINA Federico II scientific officer) is professor of Urban Planning. She has been visiting professor at Columbia University and Copenhagen University. She is in the Comittee of the Doctoral School of Architecture at Federico II University and is Principal Investigator of the EU HERA JRP project on social housing and public space (PuSH). (…)

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Unisi
Maria Cristina Addis is Research Fellow in Semiotics at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena (DISPOC), member of the Inter-university Center “Omar Calabrese” for Research in Semiotics and Image Sciences (CROSS), Lecturer of Theories and Languages of Product Design (…)

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Unito-CPS
Magda Bolzoni is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin and adjunct lecturer at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino. She holds a PhD in Sociology and she has spent periods of research (…)

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Unisi
Tiziano Bonini is associate professor in Sociology of culture and communication at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (Dispoc) of the University of Siena, where he teaches Sociology of Communication and Mass Media, Digital Culture and Society. His research interests are the political economy of the media (…)

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Unito-Esomas
Chiara Certomà works as Assistant Professor in Political-Economic Geography at the University of Turin, Research affiliate at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and at the University of Ghent. Her interests focus on innovative modes of urban governance and planning brought about by the digital turn and induced by the pressing (…)

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Alessandra Esposito is an architect and PhD student in Urban Planning at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she studies the impact of the tourist rental market on the historic center of Naples. In 2018 she taught a class at the Federico II University of Naples entitled: “Tourism and real estate market: the impact of tourism on the city in the era of sharing  (…)

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Unina Federico II
Orfina Fatigato is associate professor in Architectural and Urban Composition at DiARC, University of Naples – Federico II, and Maître de conférences invitée at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture ParisMalaquais. She had a post-doctoral fellowship holder in the International Research Programme Research in Paris. Her research is (…)

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Unisi
Tarcisio Lancioni is associate professor in Theory and Philosophy of Languages at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (Dispoc) of the University of Siena, where he teaches Semiotics, Visual Semiotics and Semiotics of Culture. His research interests are the meaning and effectiveness of images and visual representations. He is (…)

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Unina Federico II
Maria Luna Nobile is Associate Professor in Architectural and Urban Design at Umeå University, Sweden. PhD Architect in Architectural and Urban Studies at the DiARC of the University of Naples Federico II, her research focuses on the design of the contemporary city, with special attention to urban regeneration local policies, interdisciplinary (…)

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 Unisi
Antonello Romano is Research Fellow at University of Siena and scientific coordinator at Ladest Lab. Ph.D. in Economic Geography at University of Rome La Sapienza. Lecteur in Digital Geography, Spatial Data Analysis, and Social Network Analysis at DISPOC, University of Siena. His current research focuses on digital platforms and (…)

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Unina Federico II
Viviana Saitto is Reserarch Fellow in Interior Architecture and Exhibition. She is tutor at the Master in Restoration and Project for Archeology (RePARCH) of Federico II. Her research interests are interior architecture, public art, exhibition design, urban interior, and social housing. Among her recent publications are reported: Senza titolo. Arte, (…)

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Giacomo Maria Salerno is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering of the University of Rome La Sapienza. He has a Master degree in Philosophy and holds a PhD in Urban Planning. During his research activity in Venice, Rome and Barcelona, he focused on heritage studies, touristification (…)

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Unina Federico II
Marella Santangelo is Associate Professor in Architectural and Urban Composition at the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II, she is Rector’s Delegate at the University Penitentiary Centre of Campania, she is Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Course in Architectural Design. She is Member of the PHD program (…)

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Unito-Esomas
Francesca Zanutto works in marketing and communication for the tourism and cultural sector since over 15 years with a special interest for places image and destination branding topics. With a phd in Economic Geography (La Sapienza) she lived in Canada to complete her degree in Public Relations, worked in Madrid at the Communication and (…)

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Unina Federico II

Sapienza-Dicea

Giovanni Attili works as an Associate Professor at the University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy) where he teaches “Analysis of Urban and Regional Systems” and “Sustainable Development”. His research interests are focused on: images, multimedia and artistic practices as catalyst of social interaction in urban planning processes; (…)

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Unina Federico II
Fernanda Della Mura is an architect, graduated at University of Naples Federico II (Italy), with a Master’s Degree thesis entitled ‘Hunting for apartment. The effects of Airbnb on the historic city’, dealing with the tourism of the historic center of Naples. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Evaluation and Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture (…)

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Unito-Esomas

Paolo Giaccaria is associate professor of Economic and Political Geography at the University of Turin, where he teaches Territorial Marketing. His research is about territorial development (…)

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Unina Federico II
Ludovica La Rocca, architect, is a PhD candidate in Urban planning and Evaluation at the Department of Architecture (DiARC), University of Naples Federico II and co-founder of the Blam collective.
Her research-action activity investigates the opportunities generated by the hybridization between urban regeneration processes and social (…)

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Daniela Festa is research fellow at the University of Roma La Sapienza and lecture in Political and Economic Geography at the University of Bologna. She works with a critical legal geography approach on different topics such as spatial justice, urban democracy and political participation, the right to the city, urban commons, housing affordability, transitions strategies and social innovation. (…)

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Venere Stefania Sanna is a political and economic geography researcher currently working for Sapienza University and for the Italian Ministry of Environment. Her main research interests are local economic development, sustainability transition, the sharing economy and the circular economy. Her approach is interdisciplinary, (…)

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Gianluca Bei is a PhD student in Economic Geography at the University of Rome La Sapienza, MEMOTEF department. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Applied Social Sciences. He obtained a postgraduate research scholarship at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon. (…)

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