Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development

Resilience - Innovation - Sustainable Development Transparency – Organization – Meritocracy

Francesca Carion

Since January 2023 she has been an Associate at CNR IRISS with a collaborative assignment within the f Project DUS.AD013.040.009 “Place-based approaches for rebalancing anthropogenic pressures on the consolidated city”. Phd candidate PON Innovation at the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, with PhD research entitled “The generative change of social innovation processes in urban regeneration: towards new tools to support the creation of strategies”. She obtained a 2nd level Master’s degree in Urban Regeneration via Social Innovation – Urise at the IUAV University of Venice; she is about to obtain a 2nd level Master’s degree in Analysis and Evaluation of Social Impact, at the University of Naples Federico II.

At the IUAV University of Venice, she obtained a Master’s degree in Visual Arts with a focus on political and participatory art. She has worked and lived in Sicily, in the province of Agrigento, supporting local urban regeneration realities.  In 2021 she founded, with a group of experts, the association “Niutopia_nuovi luoghi comuni” aimed at designing urban and social regeneration strategies.

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