Biography
I am an architect, researcher and educator trained in Italy and the UK. Besides working as Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, I am a History and Theory Studies Lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
I have previously taught design, urbanism and history and theory of architecture at institutions including London’s Royal College of Art (City Design Programme), Central Saint Martins-University of Arts London, Leeds Beckett University, the University of Cagliari (Italy) and KU Leuven (Belgium).
As a practicing architect I have worked on large-scale housing projects for architectural offices in Italy and the UK and on small scale domestic projects and retrofit as an independent architect. I have an interest in craft - sandcasting and pottery in particular.
My research explores the role of major public institutions across the divide between the urban and rural conditions, with a specific interest in carcerality and debates about restorative justice and the abolition of prisons. My main research project, Territories of Incarceration, focuses on the spatial paradigms of carcerality touching on the territoriality of carceral institutions. I am also engaged in research on the afterlife of carceral islands and penal colonies, a work at the intersection of architecture, history, critical criminology, heritage studies, and photography. In 2013, I was Visiting Scholar at GSAPP-Columbia University and in 2020-22 I was Marie Sklodowska Curie Post-doc Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.
