Sofia Leoni

Dottorando in Urban And Regional Development , 38o ciclo (2022-2025)
Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio (DIST)

Profilo

Dottorato di ricerca

Argomento di ricerca

The Rural Reinvention. Emerging Taobao Villages and the Infrastructural Modification of the Invisible China.

Tutori

Interessi di ricerca

Urban studies
Spatial planning
Landscape

Biografia

Sofia Leoni is an architect and a Ph.D. Candidate in Urban and Regional Development at the Politecnico di Torino, where she has been part of the China Room research group since 2022. She holds both a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) and a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from the Politecnico di Torino, as well as a second Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her academic journey also includes periods of study at La Cambre-Horta, Faculty of Architecture, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Shenzhen University in China; and Brown University in the United States. During her academic journey, she actively participated in different architecture competitions, various teaching activities, and curatorial design projects. Her research interests focus on urban and rural restructuring processes in contexts of marginality and transition, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of technological innovation, infrastructure, and socio-spatial transformations. She combines approaches from the environmental humanities with infrastructural thinking and conducts methodological studies on human-soil and capitalist relations from a spatial perspective.

Premi e riconoscimenti

  • Best paper under 40, SIU - Società Italiana degli Urbanisti - Conferenza Nazionale SIU "Nuove ecologie territoriali. Coabitare mondi che cambiano”, Napoli, 12-14 giugno 2024. Sessione 07/ Infrastrutture (2024)

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