Ferreri Valentina

PHD student

Ferreri Valentina

PHD student

PhD candidate in Design at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano and affiliated with POLIMI DESIS Lab, a research group within an international network focused on Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability. Her doctoral research explores the concept of the "queer city," examining how a queer, intersectional, feminist, and plural perspective can inform participatory design practices that impact public space in urban settings. She collaborates in the project “The Queer City” funded by Fondazione di Comunità Milano. Currently tutoring the elective course of the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano called "Temporary and Inclusive Urban Solutions," with a focus on "The Queer City." She has been tutoring in the Master's program in Product-Service-System Design at Politecnico di Milano's School of Design, supporting the Final Studio on "Transforming Cities". Previously, she tutored in the POLI.DESIGN master's program "Design for Food". She collaborated with Off Campus Nolo, a neighborhood living lab in Milan, contributing to the “Situated Vocabulary” project, a hyper-local participatory conversational platform, and the "SOSpesa" project, a neighborhood initiative aimed at food recovery and redistribution to fight food insecurity.


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