Chiara Davino

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

• June 2024 - ongoing
  University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law Horizon European Project RESONANT
  Research Fellow
  Academic discipline: GSPS-06/A Sociology of Culture and Communication

• October 2023 - January 2025
  Cantieri Meticci APS (Bologna, Italy), Allianz Foundation (Berlin, Germany), Strefa WolnoSlowa (Warsaw, Poland) Rethink The Challege Project
  Member of the Italian research team (Reimagining Mobilities research team)

• September 2023 - September 2024
  University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law
  Academic discipline: GSPS-06/A Sociology of Culture and Communication - class: Sociology of Culture and Communication Processes, professor Stefano Spillare - 60 hours
  Teaching Tutor

• February - July 2023
  Department of Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Universidade da Coruña Societies in Motion Research Team (ESOMI)
  Visiting Ph.D. student

• March 2021 - November 2024
  Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research - University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law Evaluation: Excellent with mention of honors
  Academic discipline: GSPS-06/A Sociology of Culture and Communication
  Title: Porous margins: imaginaries on inner areas, migration, and dwelling
  Tutor: Pierluigi Musarò (University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law)

• March 2021 - July 2024
  University of Bologna, Department of Sociology and Business Law Horizon2020 European Project Welcoming Spaces
  Member of the Italian research team
  Academic discipline: GSPS-06/A Sociology of Culture and Communication

•  December 2019 - December 2020
  Università Iuav di Venezia, Department of Architecture and Arts
  Co-funded research fellowship (Università Iuav di Venezia and ADSI Italian Association of Historic Residences) Research Fellow
  Academic discipline: ICAR/17 Drawing

•  September 2015 - July 2016
  Università Iuav di Venezia, Department of Architecture and Arts
  Atelier I (BA), professor Renato Rizzi - 8 hours/week during the first and second semester
  Teaching Tutor

•  June - July 2015
  Università Iuav di Venezia, Department of Architecture and Arts
  W.A.Ve Workshop, professor Renato Rizzi and Andrea Tagliapietra (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan) - 40 hours/week for 3 weeks
  Teaching Tutor

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 

• 2021: Urban architect project leader
  Taktyk Landscape Urbanism – 8 rue Faubourg Poissonière, 75010 Paris, France
  
• 2019: Urban Architect
  l’AUC – 47 rue de la Chapelle, 75018 Paris, France
• 2018: Junior Architect
  Get Out Arquitectura Paisagista – Rua Luz Soriano 67, 1200-249 Lisboa, Portugal
• 2016: Junior Architect
  Renato Rizzi – Fondamenta delle Zattere, Venezia, Italy
• 2015-2016: Teaching assistent
  Università Iuav di Venezia – Department of Architecture and Arts

EDUCATION

• 2024: PhD in Sociology and Social Research - Università di Bologna - Department of Sociology and Business Law (Grade: Excellent with honors; Thesis: "Margini porosi. Immaginari su aree interne, migrazioni e abitare").
• 2022: MATILDE International Summer School on Impact of international migration in remote, rural and mountainous places in Europe – University of Eastern Finland – Horizon 2020 European project MATILDE
• 2022: MoMI International Summer School “Interrogating Euro-Mediterranean Migration” – L’Orientale University of Naples
• 2021: International PhD School on Migration and Socioecological Change – Universiteit Utrecht – Horizon 2020 European project Welcoming Spaces
• 2020: International Summer School Performing arts and migration – University of Bologna and Creative Europe Programme “Atlas of Transition” projec
• 2019: Master’s degree in Architecture– Università Iuav di Venezia – Department of Architecture and Arts (Grade 110/110 with honors; Achievement of the recommendation for thesis publication; Nomination for Università Iuav di Venezia best master’s thesis)
• 2018: Erasmus+ program – Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Portugal – Department of Architecture
• 2016: Workshop DEEPbrera – Milan Polytechnic and Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milano, Italy)
• 2016: Bachelor’s degree in Architecture – Università Iuav di Venezia – Department of Architecture and Arts (Grade 110/110 with honors)
• 2015: Erasmus program – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – Department of Humanities
• 2012: Classical High School Diploma – Liceo Classico Annibale Mariotti

LECTURES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES

2025

• Lecturer at 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat - "The Role of the Media Narratives in the Relationship between Migrations and Shrinking Areas in Europe"

• Lecturer at V PITCH - PIC AIS “Presence and Present” - "Manipolazione e interferenza informativa: le comunità della diaspora come target" – Department CoRIS, Sapienza university of Rome 

2024 

• Lecturer at SETT - Svantaggi etnici e territoriali in tempi di crisi (Politecnico di Milano)

• Lecturer at Convegno di metà mandato AIS “Between pity and insecurity: Intergovernmental and nongovernmental awareness campaigns on climate changeinduced migration” – Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università del Salento

• Lecturer at Convegno Studi culturali in Italia "Abitare migrante, abitare congiunto” – Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna.

• Lecturer at IMISCOE Annual Conference 2024, Lisbona “Engendering welcoming spaces for migrant emplacement and inclusive development in ‘left behind’ areas”

• Lecturer at VI Convegno della Società Scientifica Italiana di Sociologia, Cultura, Comunicazione “Migrazione e politiche di rigenerazione territoriale: un approccio win-win? Esperienze nell’Appennino italiano?” – Sapienza Università di Roma

• Lecturer at I Convegno Giovani STAI - AIS Sociologia dell’Ambiente e del Territorio “Il ruolo degli enti locali e cooperative del terzo settore nell’attivazione di progetti di accoglienza” Panel: Territorio, mobilità e turismo – Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro.

2023

• Lecturer at V Scuola di metodologia e di ricerca socio-culturale ScOUT
  "Turismo e migrazione nelle aree interne: percorsi alternativi o sinergici? Uno studio su tre comuni italiani” – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

•  Lecturer at PIC-AIS Conference 2023 "La forza dei legami (in)visibili. Cultura, media e società tra processi di influenza, resistenza e soggettivazione" – Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Lecture: Reversing the gaze: a visual study on migration and inland areas

• Lecturer at Sociology of Consumption: Bonding beyond boundaries – ESA Midterm Meeting University of Bologna
  Lecture: Responsible tourism: from sustainable consumption to a practice of the imaginary?
• Lecturer at IMISCOE Annual Conference 2023, Warsaw
  Lecture: Re-imagining the margin in the Italian Southern Apennines
  Panel: Leaving, staying, returning? The role of the media narratives and discourses in the relationship between migrations and shrinking areas
• Lecturer at V Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Sociology, Culture and Communication – Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  Lecture: New migratory imaginaries for European peripheries: a reflection on creative methods between knowledge co- construction and alternative narratives
• Lecturer at Seminar cycle “Transitions. Law, Economy and Society between Persistence and Change” – Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna
  Lecture: From the margin to the centre. Hypotheses for shrinking areas’s transition between tourism and migrant reception systems development
• Lecturer at "Historical centres and territory. The project for the small historic centres and the re-population of the marginalised demographic, social and economic territories". Architects’ Association of the Province of Macerata, Italy
  Lecture: Margins of the margin, South of the South. The villages involved in the Reception System
• Lecturer at Social Farming and Labour in fragile rural areas – Aree Fragili Annual Conference, Rovigo
  Lecture: What makes a shrinking area a welcoming spaces? Migration ad generative local welfare
• Lecturer at International Policy and Scientific Conference “Migrating in small-and medium-sized towns: experiences, challenges and perspectives for participation”, Thessaloniki
  Lecture: Migration as a Source of Local Welfare? Some reflections on Italian rural territories in decline Session: New and emerging rural researchers

2022

• Lecturer at Festival of Mountain Anthropology
  Lecture: Tales from the Park. The case of the Pollino: between conflicts, visions, resources
• Lecturer at Rural Imaginations 2022 Conference – University of Amsterdam
  Lecture: Re-imagining the margin. Emigration and migration in rural Italy
  Panel: Rural migration and mobilities
• Lecture “Beyond the homologation of “inland”
  International Workshop “Crossings” of La Rivoluzione delle Seppie, Belmonte Calabro, Italy
• Lecturer at IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022, Olso
  Lecture: How media narratives influence migration governance in Italy. An analysis on shrinking areas
  Panel: Migrant settlement in marginalizing European localities
• Lecturer at IV Conference of the Italian Scientific Society of Sociology, Culture and Communication – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  Lecture: Visualisng mobility (in)justice: lived experiences of the climate crisis in Senegal
• Co-founder/co-organiser of cycle of seminars “Creative perspectives for re-imagining mobility, borders and otherness” Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna

2021

• Lecturer at VI National Conference of PhD Students in Social Sciences – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  Lecture: Narrazioni e immaginari delle aree interne. Sguardi sulla montagna di mezzo
  Panel: Media, communities and narratives
• Lecturer at XXVI International Conference of Film Studies - Migrations, Citizenships, Inclusivity – Roma Tre University, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts
  Lecture: Visual policies and communication strategies
  Panel: Narrations of Necropolitics
  

2020

• Lecturer at XII International Seminar on Urban Research, Lisbon
  Lecture: State of emergency. A reading of social space in Europe
  Panel: post-crisis urban morphologies
• Lecture “Panic. Readings of camps after September 11” (presentation of the master’s thesis) Department of Architecture and Arts, Università Iuav di Venezia
  Drawing class, professor Maria Malvina Borgherini
  

2019

• Lecture “Panic. Readings of camps after September 11” (presentation of the master’s thesis) Department of Sociology and Business Law, Univeristy of Bologna
  Media and Security class, professor Pierluigi Musarò
  

2016

• Lectrurer at V National Congress of Italian Psychoanlysts Association (A.I.Psi) Lecture and video project: “Logo(s)”
  
  

PUBLICATIONS

 MONOGRAPHS

•  Davino C. and Villani L.. (2021). Panico. Letture di campi post 11 settembre, Filo di Arianna, La Spezia. ISBN: 9791280034502.

 CURATORSHIPS

•  Davino C. and Villani L., edited by (2022). Immune morphologies. Forms of militarization and alliance in emergency processes, ABC, Venezia. ISBN: 9788894573114.

 CURATORSHIPS (INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING)

•  Dambrosio S., Davino C., Mastromauro L., Villani L., edited by (2023). Che cos’è il Sud? ISBN: 9791221039948.
•  Dambrosio S., Davino C., Felicioni M., Villani L., edited by (2021). Zero. ISBN: 9791220081948.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS (PEER-REVIEWED/REFEREED JOURNALS)

•  Davino C., Moralli M. and Villani L. (2024). “Ripensare le aree interne. Una questione di immaginario?”. Fuori Luogo Journal of Sociology of Territory, Tourism, Technology, 18(1): 77-90. https://doi.org/10.6093/2723-9608/9303.

• Martins R. and Davino C. (2023). Local migration governance in European shrinking areas: a German and an Italian case. Journal of International Migration and Integration – Special Issue ‘Welcoming spaces’: migration and new communities in marginalised regions”. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01029-5.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2021). “Territori di interazione. Per una socio-ecologia del co-abitare”. Economia e società regionale. Rigenerazione urbana come infrastruttura sociale, 3: 15-26 (Franco Angeli, Milano).
  ISSN: 18272479.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2020). “La società del controllo. Letture di spazi e fatti urbani attraverso il paradigma della trasparenza”. Elephant&Castle, 22: 4-26. ISSN: 1826-6118.
  

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

•  Davino C. (2022). “Girai lu mundu e poi mi fermai. Flussi umani nei margini calabresi”. CISAV. Saperi Territorializzati: Abitare le aree fragili tra accessibilità e consapevolezza, 3: 41-43. ISBN: 1221013432.

• Davino C. (2022). “Due solitudini. L’interazione tra vecchi e nuovi abitanti in un comune ultraperiferico lucano”. CISAV Saperi Territorializzati: Aver cura dei paesi, partecipare, autodeterminarsi, 4: 30-33. ISBN: 9791221021066.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2020). “Net-self. Digital persona in times of emergency”. Trans Magazine (ETH Zürich), 37: 159- 163. ISBN: 9783856764104.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2019). “Rifugio in-sicurezza. Nuove configurazioni nell’epoca delle emergenze globali,”.OFFICINA, 28: 10-15. ISSN: 2532-1218.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Martins R. and Davino C. (to be published). Revitalizing Rural Shrinking Regions in Europe: A Comparative Study of Local Economic Revitalisation, in Zoomers, A., Szytniewski, B., Leung, M., Geuijen, K. (edited by), Handbook of Engendering Welcoming Spaces and Fostering Spatial Justice in Europe. Experiences of refugee and migrant emplacement in “remore” areas and challenges of creating an inclusive society, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
  
• Bergamaschi M., Castrignanò M., Davino C., Lomonaco A. (to be published). Towards potential synergies. Territories and reception in Italy beyond a sectoral approach, in Zoomers, A., Szytniewski, B., Leung, M., Geuijen, K. (edited by), Handbook of Engendering Welcoming Spaces and Fostering Spatial Justice in Europe. Experiences of refugee and migrant emplacement in “remore” areas and challenges of creating an inclusive society, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• Davino C. (2025). The Margin of the Margin, the South of the South. The ultra-peripheral villages of the Southern Apennines involved in the reception system, in Amato, F. (edited by), Interrogating Euro-Mediterranean Migration, Uninor, Napoli.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2024). Immunity Borders.Re-framing Schengen border security through immunity paradigm, in Pekelsma S. and Tanulku B. (edited by), Physical and Symbolic Borders and Boundaries and How They Unfold in Space: An Inquiry on Making, Unmaking and Remaking Borders and Boundaries Across the World. New York: Routledge, pp. 242-259. ISBN: 9781032408101.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2022). Immune Spatialities: Im-Mobility and Securitization of Borders, in Id. (edited by), Immune morphologies. Forms of militarization and alliance in emergency processes, ABC, Venezia, pp. 21-56. ISBN: 9788894573114.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2022). Immune Mythologies: The Virus as Shaper of Social Space, in Id. (edited by), Immune morphologies. Forms of militarization and alliance in emergency processes, ABC, Venezia, pp. 57-107. ISBN: 9788894573114.
• Davino C. and Villani L. (2022). Politiche visuali e strategie comunicative. Il potere delle immagini autoprodotte dalla Marina Militare Italiana e da Frontex lungo i confini del Mediterraneo e la loro contro-narrazione, in Leonardo De Francesci (edited by), Migrazioni, cittadinanze, inclusività. Narrazioni dell’Italia plurale, tra immaginario e politiche per la diversità, Tab Edizioni, Roma, pp. 73-84. ISBN: 9788892954984.
• Davino C., Moralli M., Villani L. (2022). Re-thinking inland areas. A matter of narrative?, in Casado Claro, M. F., Rodrigues Soares, J. R. (edited by), Turismo alternativo. Respuestas a los desafíos medioambientales, sociales y de buen gobierno a través de nuevos modelos turiísticos, Aranzadi, Cizur Menor, pp. 1-17. ISBN: 9788413900582.
•  Dambrosio S., Davino C., Mastromauro L., Villani L. (2022). Disciplinamento, visualizzazione e spazializzazione del contagio, in Criticity (edited by), Vol. 2 - Città fragile, Contrabbandiera Editrice, Sesto Fiorentino, pp. 33-47. ISBN: 978883145131.
• Davino C. and Villani L., (2021). The immune space. Surveillance and emergency readings, in Gonçalves, L., Oliveira, L., Tajariol, F. (edited by), Digital Services in Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Situations, IGI Global, Hershey, pp. 122-148. ISBN: 9781799867050.
• Davino C. (2018). Progetto MOSE. La seduzione della salvezza, in Marini, S., Cutillo, E., Petracchin, A. (edited by), Cartografie dell’Oscurità. Architetture e psicogeografie veneziane, Nicomp L.E., Firenze, pp. 165-172. ISBN: 8894989011.
• Davino C., Tornieri S., Triches M. (2016). Poliorceticon - The form of the Siege, in Chiavi, E., Girão, M., Moura Veiga, F., Ordòñez, R. (edited by), CARTHA - On Relations in Architecture, Park Book, Zurich.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

•  Davino C. and Villani L. (2025). Mapping and Spatial Representations, in Moralli, M., Oso, L., Ribas-Mateos, N. (edited by), Encyclopedia of Global Migration: New Mobilities and Artivism, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

 REVIEWS

•  Davino C., Lupoli M. and Villani L. (2024). “3T Readings”. Fuori Luogo Journal of Sociology of Territory, Tourism, Technology, 18(1): 151-159. https://doi.org/10.6093/2723-9608/9956

• Volume review Laboratorio Mediterraneo. Viaggio tra fotografia, ambiente, letteratura e scienze sociali: storia e futuro del mare tra le terre (edited by Patrizia Varone, Nicola Saldutti - Guida Editori, Napoli, 2022), in “Africa e Mediterraneo. Cultura e Società”, 96. ISSN: 1121849520096.

ONLINE ARTICLES

•  Davino C. and Villani L. (2020). The rhetoric of progress. A contradictory reading of facts and urban spaces, in Chiavi, E., Girão, M., Moura Veiga, F., Ordòñez, R. (edited by), “CARTHA – The possible progress”. https://www.carthamagazine.com/issue/4-1/.

• Davino C. (2020). Migrazioni, arti performative, città e forme di resistenza in “Voci Globali”. https://vociglobali.it/author/chiara-davino/.

EXIBITIONS

• 2023: co-curator of "Connections. Un’esplorazione visuale della migrazione nelle aree interne" at Festival “Chi ha paura del futuro? Mobilità, migrazioni e cambiamenti climatici” – Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell’Economia, Università di Bologna (Le Serre dei Giardini, Bologna)
• 2019: Contributor at Earthbeat Festival – Spazio Gal, Monastero del Soccorso, Altamura, Italy
  Editorial project “Mediterranean frontier: biopolitical machine”, with Lorenza Villani
• 2016: Contributor at 15. Architecture Biennale of Venice – Padiglione Venezia, Giardini. Curators: L. Battistella, N. Picco, M. D’Ambros
  Project coordinator: Babau Bureau with cardoetdecumanus
  Editorial project “Poliorceticon”
• Contributor at Favara Cultural Park – Agrigento, Italy Curator: Analogique
  Video installation “Passport”, with Babau Bureau
• Contributor at Mantova Architecture Festival – Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Italy
  Project “No man’s Land”, with Andrea Pizzini, Virginia Santilli
  

OTHER

• Co-founder, since 2020, of ASSEMBRAMENTI, a digital editorial platform for independent research ASSEMBRAMENTI brings together architects (and others) spread around the world with the intention of discussing the socio-spatial transformations taking place in the era of overlapping global crises. Each year ASSEMBRAMENTI launches a volume (in 2021 “ZERO,” in 2022 “Che cos’è il Sud?)
• Lecturer at Radio Alhara “FALSA PORTA”
  Episode 11: Other Desert Cities. On human interaction and otherness across rural Italy