Architect and teaching tutor at the University of Bologna, she focuses on topics related to urban and landscape design, with particular attention to socio-ecological practices of regeneration. She integrates skills in design, graphics, and drawing into both research and teaching. She actively collaborates with other professionals, research groups, and local administrations, promoting interdisciplinary approaches to architectural and landscape design.
Academic Career
After obtaining a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Bologna and a Master in Environmental Humanities from Roma Tre University, she pursued a PhD in Architecture, Arts and Planning at the University of Palermo. She then held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the same institution, where she developed an advanced territorial analysis for the Metropolitan City of Palermo, aimed at integrating environmental and settlement indicators within a bioregionalist framework. In parallel, she gained international research experience as a visiting scholar at the Institut Géographique of Sorbonne Université in Paris, where she studied urban ecology and biodiversity management, and as an Erasmus+ BIP research fellow at the Universitat de València, within the Forthem Diversity and Migration Lab, adopting an interdisciplinary approach to diversity and migration narratives.
Teaching Activities
Her teaching experience has developed across different academic contexts. At the University of Palermo, she has consistently collaborated with the courses Urban Planning Studio I and Planning Studio I, both in Italian and English, supporting lectures with tutoring, student guidance, and the development of teaching materials. In 2023–2024, she was appointed adjunct lecturer for Urban Planning Studio I, focusing on the relationship between urban design and socio-ecological processes. She has also been invited to deliver specialist seminars, such as within the course Contemporary Urban Planning Issues, on forms of urban greenery and the recognition of “wildness” in the city, and in the cycle Landscape Architecture at D’Arch, addressing the concept of urban voids. In parallel, at the University of Bologna, she served as a teaching tutor for the course Architectural Composition II, consolidating a transversal experience across design, urban planning, and landscape studies.
Scientific Activities
Her research lies at the intersection of urban planning, landscape architecture, and territorial ecology. She has participated in national research projects (PRIN), including Bioregional Planning Tools to Co-Design Life Places, contributing to bioregional methodologies, the regeneration of inner areas, and adaptive planning processes. She has published in Italian and international scientific journals and contributed to collective volumes dedicated to walking practices, urban landscapes, and new forms of inhabiting space. She has also undertaken peer review for conferences and academic journals, as well as editorial curatorships fostering dialogue between design, historical, and environmental disciplines. Her scientific production reflects a consistent commitment to combining theoretical reflection, empirical research, and design applications, with particular attention to the role of landscape as a critical and generative framework for the transformation of cities and territories.
Institutional and Academic Roles
Doctoral Students’ Representative, Member of the Department Council, Department of Architecture, University of Palermo (2020–2023).
Board Member – Laboratorio del Cammino APS (RUNTS n. 122804, 26/09/2023).
She contributes to the promotion of higher education, research, and itinerant teaching on landscape, city, and territory, using walking as a method of exploration, representation, and design.
Other Activities
Extra-academic collaborations on urban regeneration projects and public participation processes.
Engagement in cultural and outreach initiatives related to landscape, territory, and architecture.
