作者: Oana Cristina Ţiganea

Alice Buoli (architect and Ph D) is currently an Assistant Professor in Urban Design and Planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. Her academic and professional experience combines urban research within the Euro-Mediterranean context, African urbanism, borderland studies, creative practice research, and editorial and curatorial activities. Over the past years, she has been involved in different international projects and institutions, such as the MSC Initial Training Network “ADAPT-r – Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training-research” at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn (Estonia), the Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2017 “Bio Tallinn”, and the “Boa_Ma_Nhã, Maputo!” project (recipient of the 2018 Polisocial Award) at Politecnico di Milano. Her most recent publications include “Territorial Development and Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Global South: A Study for the Maputo Province, Mozambique” (Springer, 2022), which she editedwith L. Montedoro and A. Frigerio.  Oana Ţiganea (architect and Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in Architectural Preservation at Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano. One of her main research interests is the architecture dating the second half of the 20th century in Eastern Europe – its construction, transformation, and destiny while raising in debate its patrimonial acknowledge and enhancement. She was a postdoctoral fellow at “New Europe College” Institute for Advanced Studies in Bucharest during 2016 – 2017, experiencing the inter-disciplinary aspects and debates of the recent past historic narratives and research. She coordinated the cultural research project “Anina, Mine of Ideas” (2014 – 2018) funded by the Romanian Architects Chamber and focused on the industrial heritage from Anina (Romania). Currently she is focused on the architectural heritage fragilities within the larger international frame, while looking into methods and tools of preservation practice for its economic and sociocultural enhancement.