PhD, Designer, Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor, Startupper
Graduated in Interior Design in 2010 and got a PhD in Design in 2014. Her Master thesis focused on research and design for tv set especially in a time of crisis. During the degree she studied as an exchange student at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) in Providence, RI, USA. In 2008 she completed an internship as an interior designer in Paris, at CXT Architecture. After that she worked for two years as a set designer for Sky tv with Bestudio, in Milan.
Her PhD research was about ‘temporary living’ especially in the contest of mega-event.
The PhD involved a term as an exchange student at Middlesex University in London and one at TU Delft. In the last years she designed the interiors and services for the Expo Village for Milan 2015 as applied project of her PhD thesis.
She has been teaching since 2010, she has been tutor on numerous workshops, classes and studios in Interior Design (BSc and MSc) and Product Service System Design (MSc) at Politecnico di Milano and other international schools of design.
Member of the Research Team in Design for Environments, Landscape & Mobility – LEM.design, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano since 2011. She joined several national and international research focused on Design for Social Innovation, Public Spaces and Hospitality.
She was project manager of the The Virtuous Circle, Cumulus Conference in Milan (June 2015).
She is now Research Fellow at the Design Department and Adjunct Professor at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano. She is working for different research: campUS – Incubation and settings for social practices, a Polisocial research project on the role of the university campus as incubator for social practises; Human Cities – Challenging the city scale, an European research projects about public urban spaces; SerSE, a FARB research project on the Sharing Economy.
In 2013 she founded MyHoming with Angela Ponzini, a collaborative web platform designed to bring together demand and supply of services for (con)temporary inhabitants in order to make them feel at home even in a foreign context.