Raffaella Cavallaro
PhD Candidate in Architecture Urban Interior Design
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU)
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris‑Malaquais – PSL
Department of Architecture.
Laboratoire Infrastructure Architecture Territoire – LIAT
Raffaella Cavallaro is an architect and researcher in the Architectural, Urban and Interior Design Program (AUID) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where she has been researching and supporting teaching since 2019. She is, currently, a visiting researcher at ENSA Paris Malaquais in the Laboratoire Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire (LIAT). Her research, “Learning Spaces in Contemporary Metropolitan Cities. «Common Ground» design strategies to care and update Milan’s primary and secondary state schools”, which deals with architecture for education and explores models and strategies for innovative learning spaces, is part of the national PNRR program (within the European NEXTGeneration EU program) in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan’s Schools Technical Area. She is committed to defining strategies for updating school buildings, a topic she has explored in recent years through research collaborations, workshops, publications and design competitions. She has contributed to publications on architecture for education, such as “Una scuola condivisa: per una cultura della felicità “(2022) and “Inventing Schools. A School as Big as the World” (2023).
Nicolò Chierichetti
PhD Candidate in Architecture Urban Interior Design
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU)
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment.
Department of Architecture. Architectural Design Crossovers Group
Nicolò Chierichetti is an architect and researcher at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Currently, he is also guest researcher at TU Delft in the group of Architectural Design Crossovers. His research interests focus on the intersection of urban infrastructure, landscape architecture, and residual spaces, with a particular interest in the marginal areas adjacent to ring road systems. Nicolò is currently pursuing research under the national PNRR program (within the European NEXTGeneration EU program) and with FNMGroup-Milano Serravalle fundings – dealing with the challenges of the green transition for the Ring Roads system of the Metropolitan City of Milan – and framing Sustainable Mobility as an opportunity for Urban and Landscape Regeneration. His methodology refers to research-by-design, adopting meta-design explorations to provide strategic design visions. In Politecnico di Milano, he is also elected representative in the PhD board council for all faculties, member of the Guarantee Committee Act, and part of the European Researcher Charter Group.