Isabella Traeger
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Unpacking borderscapes
Isabella Traeger is PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Politecnico di Milano, DAStU. Situated at the intersection of urban and border studies, her doctoral research seeks to mobilise the possibilities afforded by thinking with and through micro-islands to unveil alternative relational geographies, agencies and imaginaries of the Mediterranean borderscape, while probing latent forms of ‘staying with the trouble’.
As a Research Fellow in the transdisciplinary research project “Italian Borderscapes after 2020: Mapping, Unfolding, and Re-Framing Border Territories in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Isabella has conducted research on the Slovenian-Italian border. Her work on borders also extends to the Spanish-Gibraltarian context, explored through her master’s thesis and teaching assistance in the lab “Urban design for Borderlands“.
Born in Switzerland to an Italo-Brazilian family, Isabella holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the University of Bath (UK), with a year-long Erasmus exchange at the Technische Universität München (DE); and a Master degree in Architectural Design and History from the Politecnico di Milano. Isabella has also worked as an architect at the Milan-based studio Ibsen.
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