I am an architect, researcher and storyteller, and I work with images, words and critical spatial thinking as equal tools. I weave these languages together so that research stays permeable to conflicts, and technical knowledge, poetic gestures and political engagement become inseparable forces. Through this, I aim to take part in collective forms of resistance and world-making. 

My academic research moves between planning, political ecology and the environmental humanities, with a focus on socio-environmental conflicts and more-than-human perspectives. 

In 2026 I earned my PhD in Urban Planning at the University of Naples Federico II, with the thesis titled Un’urbanistica più-che-umana. Linguaggi, conflitti, storie per giustizie territoriali, in which I investigated how non-anthropocentric perspectives challenge extractivist approaches to territories in Italy. This work stems from the observation that the overlooking of more-than-human voices and rights in spatial transformation processes overlaps with the silencing of marginalized human communities, particularly in areas where social and environmental injustices intersect. The research investigates the difficulties for urban planning to become a practice of listening and negotiation, acknowledging humans as one among multiple active subjects in living territories. Alongside my PhD research in Naples, I have long supported urban planning and habitat design courses, where didactic practice becomes an integral part of my research journey.

I currently hold a postdoctoral research contract at IUAV University of Venice, where I work on POSTPLAN: Posthuman perspectives in planning research. Exploring collaborative approaches with non-humans for inclusive governance models (principal investigator Dr. Nicola Di Croce). 

On the non-academic side, my relationship with still and moving images was first shaped during my teenage years at the Accademia del Cinema Ragazzi in Enziteto, Bari, a significant social actor in a challenging neighborhood. This experience showed me how artistic practice could become a fundamental tool to engage with territories and communities. My later background includes architecture studies at IUAV University of Venice and TU Wien, and working experience at Andrés Jaque-Office for Political Innovation, where I was involved in projects with international resonance bridging architecture, art and environmental politics. 

Over the last years, I have encountered a constellation of enriching experiences, such as sharing experiences with La Scuola Open Source (2021), being part of the cohort of the HORROR research bureau at the University of the Underground (2022), co-directing the two-years run of Festival di Immaginazione Meridiana (2022-2023), and collaborating to this day to the artistic direction of “SOTTENCOPPA – Carnevale sonico napoletano” (2023>), a publicly funded music festival and cultural experiment of urban sonic subversion in Naples (Italy).

I believe in the survival of fireflies and stand by the conviction that the personal is political.