Sofia Darbesio

Research topic

The research applies Digital Humanities methods to analyse and document contemporary urban transformations associated with mobility infrastructure construction sites in historic environments.

Tutors

• Rosa Rita Maria Tamborrino
• Alessandro Aliberti

• Student Prize in the post-1900 history category at the 16th Conference of the European Association of Urban History (EAUH) - Cities at the Boundaries, held in Ostrava, Czech Republic, from 4 to 7 September 2024. Presented the paper "Unveiling and Overcoming Cultural-Spatial Boundaries with Digital Narratives in Multiple Historical Segments: Piazza Municipio in Naples" as a speaker in the session "M34 - Crossing Boundaries through (Digital) Narratives". (2024)
• Awarded for the poster "Reconstructing Urban Transformations: Digital Humanities for the Documentation of Large-Scale Construction Sites in Historic Cities", selected among the winners in the poster competition at the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2025, held from 4–8 August 2025 at the University of Oxford (UK). (2025)

Master of Science

• Digital Heritage. A.A. 2026/27, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Collaboratore del corso
• Digital Heritage. A.A. 2025/26, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Collaboratore del corso
• Knowledge and heritage active preservation (modulo di History of architecture). A.A. 2025/26, ARCHITETTURA PER IL PATRIMONIO. Collaboratore del corso
• Knowledge and heritage active preservation (modulo di History of architecture). A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA PER IL PATRIMONIO. Collaboratore del corso

• Darbesio, Sofia (2026)
  Exchanges Between Portuguese and Italian Architectural Cultures in Contemporary Practice: The Piazza Municipio Metro Station in Naples. In: Italy–Portugal on the Margins: Intersections of Architecture, Urban Design, and Art. Margins 2025 / Maddaluno, R., Pegorin, E., Fanfoni, A., S.L., Springer Nature, pp. 53-61. ISBN: 9783032237583
  Contributo in Volume
• Darbesio, Sofia (2026)
  Institutions and other stakeholders as producers of (digital) cultural formats in the Italian Hub of Cultural Resilience. In: Cultural resilience during the Corona pandemic: Italy and beyond. / Tamborrino R., Pisa, Edizioni ETS, pp. 49-57. ISBN: 9788846771445
  Contributo in Volume
• Darbesio, Sofia (2026)
  Cantieri infrastrutturali contemporanei nelle città storiche: pratiche progettuali e nuove centralità urbane. In: LA CITTÀ CROCEVIA. Relazioni e scambi, intersezioni e incroci nelle realtà urbane/ THE CROSSROAD CITY. Relations and exchanges, intersections and crossing points in urban realities, pp. 1351-1352
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Darbesio, Sofia (2025)
  Documenting the tensions between a new metro infrastructure and historic urban environments. In: Conceptualising Environment(s): Continuity and change., pp. 40-40
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Darbesio, Sofia (2025)
  Beyond mobility infrastructure: Two examples of authorial metro stations as spaces of urban transformation. In: PASSAGES. Architecture for flowing and connecting spaces., Milan (Italy), pp. 50-51. ISBN: 9789465181011
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Darbesio, Sofia (2025)
  Reconstructing urban transformations: Digital Humanities for the documentation of large-scale construction sites in historic cities. In: DARIAH Annual Event 2025 | The Past, Göttingen (DE), 18-20 June 2025, pp. 45-45
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Darbesio, Sofia (2025)
  La storia urbana e del territorio nelle istituzioni culturali locali come valore collettivo per una valorizzazione condivisa del patrimonio: alcuni esempi di buone pratiche. In: Oltre lo Sguardo / Beyond the Gaze / Ippoliti A., Svalduz E., S.L., AISU International, pp. 661-672. ISBN: 9788831277112
  Contributo in Volume
• Darbesio, Sofia (2023)
  Ripensare la città flessibile nella storia urbana: il X Congresso AISU a Torino. In: ATTI E RASSEGNA TECNICA, vol. LXXVII-1, pp. 77-78. ISSN 0004-7287
  Contributo su Rivista
• Darbesio, Sofia (2023)
  Le disuguaglianze sociali nelle istituzioni museali: un’equa narrazione della storia urbana e del patrimonio culturale per città più inclusive. In: Beyond the Gaze. Interpreting and Understanding the city / Oltre lo sguardo. Interpretare e comprendere la città - XI AISU Congress, Ferrara (ITA), 13-16 settembre 2023, pp. 910-911. ISBN: 9788831277082
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Darbesio, Sofia (2023)
  La storia urbana nelle istituzioni museali come valore collettivo per una valorizzazione socialmente condivisa del patrimonio culturale territoriale. In: Beyond the Gaze. Interpreting and Understanding the city / Oltre lo sguardo. Interpretare e comprendere la città - XI AISU Congress, Ferrara (ITA), 13-16 settembre 2023, pp. 301-302. ISBN: 9788831277082
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)