Valentina Ferrari
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Queering participatory design for urban public spaces
Valentina Ferrari is a PhD candidate in Design at Politecnico di Milano and member of POLIMI DESIS Lab, an international research group focused on Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability. Her research explores how queer, intersectional, and feminist perspectives can inform participatory design practices in urban public spaces. She is a collaborator on “The Queer City” project, funded by Fondazione di Comunità Milano. She currently tutors the “Temporary and Inclusive Urban Solutions” elective course at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano with a focus on “The Queer City.” She has been tutoring in the Master’s program in Product-Service-System Design at Politecnico di Milano’s School of Design, supporting the Final Studio on “Transforming Cities”. Previously, she tutored in the POLI.DESIGN master’s program “Design for Food”. She collaborated with Off Campus Nolo, a neighborhood living lab in Milan, contributing to the “Situated Vocabulary” project, a hyper-local participatory conversational platform, and the “SOSpesa” project, a neighborhood initiative aimed at food recovery and redistribution to fight food insecurity.
Publications
Ferreri, V., & Galluzzo, L. (2024). The Queer City. Public Space and Alterity. In E. S. Zingale (Ed.), Design Meets Alterity. Case studies, project experiences, communication criticism. FrancoAngeli.
Fassi, D., & Ferreri, V. (2024, June 23). Situated partnerships to face food waste within a neighborhood-based food redistribution Service: The case of ‘SOSpesa’. DRS2024: Boston. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1307
Ferreri, V. (2023). Queer cities. Designing inclusive public spaces through participative and social innovative actions and practices. In D. De Sainz Molestina, L. Galluzzo, F. Rizzo, & D. Spallazzo (Eds.), Proceedings of IASDR 2023: Life-changing Design, 9-13 October. Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.815
Galluzzo, L., Giunta, E. E., Facoetti, V., & Ferreri, V. (2023). Temporary and Inclusive Urban Solutions: Visioni per città più “queer”. In E. E. Giunta (Ed.), Design for social. Accelerare innovazione nell’impresa sociale / Boosting innovation in social enterprises (pp. 71–77). Studio SHIFT srl SB.
Tassinari, V., Vergani, F., & Ferreri, V. (2023). Co-designing neighbourhood identities. How to share memories and experiences towards a common sense of belonging. In K. Vaes & J. Verlinden (Eds.), Connectivity and Creativity in times of Conflict. Cumulus Conference Proceedings Antwerp 2023 (pp.538–543). Academia Press. https://doi.org/10.26530/9789401496476
Vergani, F., Tassinari, V., & Ferreri, V. (2023). Radical interdependence on a neighborhood scale. Raising awareness among children about human and more-than-human entanglements. In E. Lazet (Ed.), Design for Adaptation. Cumulus Conference Proceedings Detroit 2022 (pp. 521–537). Cumulus.
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