PhD in Urban and Regional Planning (2016/17, University of Palermo – TU Berlin), actually post-doc researcher at the ICS, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa since 2020. I have been an active member of an international collective of researcher/activists called SqEK (Squatting European Kollective) from 2014 to 2020. My PhD dissertation titled,

“Conflicting citizenship and (re)active zones in the urban areas: confronting the cases of Berlin and Rome – Policies and practices for defining processes of ‘reclaiming’ urban public spaces”, focused on the analysis of relevant cases of insurgent reappropriation /reclaiming of urban public spaces making a comparison between two cities historically characterised by organised forms of social struggle and grassroots’ transitional space reappropriation practices such as squatting. My research focuses on the attempt to define if and when these practices achieve to have an impact upon contemporary policymaking and urban agenda. In order to define that, in my research I trace the analysis on how and under which conditions these practices, pioneering new ideas, have been facilitated, hampered, or co-opted, along these last decades by institutions and dominant discourses and practices in different European Cities.