Francesca Gotti

Francesca Gotti is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano and teaching assistant at the Academy of Mendrisio. She holds a BS in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis developed at TUT University in Tampere (Finland) and MS in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano and Tongji University in Shanghai. From 2017 to 2019, she worked in Stuttgart at Atelier Brückner, as designer for exhibition, narrative and interactive projects for museums. For the past 6 years she has been a member of the editorial board of ARK magazine, curating the journal column on the informal re-appropriation of neglected spaces in north of Italy. Since she graduated, she has been contributing to projects of collective reuse of urban commons in Bergamo, collaborating with local cultural associations including Zenith, Contemporary Locus and Maite.