Politecnico di Milano

Francesca Gotti (RA)

Francesca Gotti studied Architecture at Politecnico di Milan, collaborating with Architecture Without Boundaries, developing her bachelor thesis on Finnish social housing at TUT University in Tampere (Finland) and completing her Master with the Double Degree program at Tongji University in Shanghai. During her Master Thesis, Francesca researched transformations affecting places of Collective Memory and social practices in the metropolitan context of Shanghai. After graduating, she joined the editorial board at ARK magazine, curating a section regarding informal re-appropriation of public spaces in Bergamo and Lombardia, and she has continuously collaborated on urban reactivation projects in Bergamo, with associations Zenith, Contemporary Locus and Maite. Together with this last association, in 2015 she promoted the reactivation and reuse of the former prison of Sant’Agata in Bergamo, currently granted to Maite with Beni Comuni as a socio-cultural place. She worked at Aelier Brückner in Stuttgart for two years as designer for exhibitions and narrative and interactive projects for museums, before returning to Milan where she is currently a research fellow for DASTU, en/counter/points. Francesca continues to develop further independent research with colleagues from other disciplines.