Spatial Tensions in Urban Design / The Urban Book Series (PDF)

Ianira Vassallo is an architect, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Urban Planning at DIST, Politecnico di Torino. Her research interest focus on the relationship between urban practices and projects of spatial transformation in the contemporary cities. Since 2016, she has been part of the LABSUS Association staff, and she works on the production of discourses, spaces, knowledge and values related to the urban commons processes.








In 2021, she carried out a teaching and research experience at Institut d'Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine (IUGA). Currently, she works in the research project "Lifelines" (2020-2022) that focuses on the possibility to analyze the "new infrastructures" of care, of work, of production that the COVID situation are defining.




Michele Cerruti But is an architect, Ph.D., an adjunct professor in Urbanism at DIST, Politecnico di Torino, and an academic coordinator at Accademia Unidee-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella. Since2018, he has also tutored courses in Arts and Social Engagement at the Fine Arts Department of ArtEZ (NL).










His research focuses on the contemporary urban condition, specifically focusing on a collective transdisciplinary approach straddling urbanism, social sciences, and public arts and aiming at exploring the relations between society, economy, and territory. Since 2014, he works on the issue of the city making of contemporary manufacturing production, and on this topic he defended his Ph.D. research, co-authored and co-edited international peer-reviewed essays and books, and co-organized international conferences. He currently works on the issue of mediality and medial territories in Europe as the very platform of Western modernity and key space for tackling climate change.








Giulia Setti is an architect, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Architectural and Urban Design at DAStU Department, Politecnico di Milano. Her