Elena Girelli

PhD student in Aesthetics (M-FIL/04) at the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna with a research project on the relationship between filmic images, imagery and the city in amateur and family film practices (home movies), with particular reference to the role of images in everyday life, in developing affectives and memorial relationships with places and urban transformation processes of Bologna (Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Borsari).

She is part of the research group of Architectual Humanities interested in Urban Aesthetics.

She graduated in Philosophy in the same University with a thesis on the relationship between the thought of Walter Benjamin and Situationism in the theoretical and cinematographic work of Guy Debord (supervisor Prof. Monica Dall'Asta). She continued her studies at the University of Florence, obtaining a Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences with a thesis on the analysis of the human/non-human dichotomy and scientific representations in the works of Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway (supervisor Prof. Ubaldo Fadini).

In her spare time, she is a radio amateur.