Junior Fellow

She is PhD student in Design at the University of Bologna.
She graduated in Industrial Design from Turin Polytechnic and obtained a master's degree in Visual Arts from the University of Bologna with a multidisciplinary dissertation on the relationship between man and bicycle. In 2016 she obtained a 2nd level master in Euro project Design and Management 2020®. 
In 2016, her thesis won the "Dario Ciapetti" prize promoted by the National Association of Virtuous Municipalities. In 2017 she won the scholarship concerning the research project: "S, M, L, XL. The 'size revolution' and the birth of the standard fashion system".
At the moment she focuses her research on the Gruppo GFT company, of which she studies the installations for Pitti Uomo and the design of cultural exhibitions realized in the 80s.
She writes blog reviews, interviews and critical texts about History of Design and Visual Arts for Il Giornale dell'Arte, Il Giornale delle Fondazioni and ZoneModa Journal.
She is Editorial Assistant for ZoneModa Journal.

Irene Calvi is a PhD student within the fields of visual and fashion studies at the University of Bologna and is passionate about fashion interpretations in museums, especially when emerging technologies are involved. She supports the creation of international networks and for this reason she is a member of the executive committee of The Association of Dress Historians, and has participated in the activities of GIS-Acorso (Appearances, Bodies, Societies). In the last two years, she worked at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art as Director’s Office and Development.

He is research fellow at the Department for Life Quality Studies. Bachelor's degree in Culture and Techniques of Costume and Fashion at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, at the same University he obtained his Master's Degree in European History in 2010. PhD in History at the Department of History and Cultures, of the University of Bologna on the birth of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and on the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage in Italy and Europe during the Twentieth Century. He is Editorial Coordinator of the scientific review AlmaTourism - Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development and member of Zone Moda Journal Editorial Staff. Fellow in History of contemporary society (MSTO04) since 2007 at the degree course of Science in Cultures and Techniques of Fashion, School of Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Department for Life Quality Studies, Rimini Campus. During the academic year 2010-2011 he has been fellow in Social History (MSTO04) at the degree course of Cultures and Techniques of Costume and Fashion, Rimini Campus. From 2007 to 2009 he was student's tutor for the degree course in Cultures and Techniques of Costume and Fashion of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bologna , Rimini Campus . From 2005 to 2011 he collaborated with the Laboratory of historical research and photographic documentation on the twentieth century Imago online at the Rimini Campus - University of Bologna. He has also participated as a speaker, together with Daniela Calanca in November 2011 at the international conference "Our Future's Past Sustainable Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century", at the American University of Rome, and in February 2013 he participated at the of the International Workshop "Digital Archives for a Social History of Fashion and Costume", within the project “Patrimonio Culturale a Rimini e in Romagna: Archivi per il Fashion e la Moda tra Ottocento e Novecento", supported by Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna - Rimini Campus - Department for Life Quality Studies ,  the State Archives of Rimini and the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Culture. He currently collaborates at the research project “Patrimonio Culturale a Rimini e in Romagna: Archivi per il Fashion e la Moda tra Ottocento e Novecento” 

Nadica Maksimova is a PhD student at the Department for Life Quality Studies at the University of Bologna. Her interest is the relationship between fashion and sustainability, specifically the practices of consumers’ education on environmentally sustainable and socially correct practices. Her current research focuses on the representation and understanding of Vogue Italia's sustainability from its first publication in 1966 up to the present days.

She has a BA in Italian Language and Literature obtained in 2013 at Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. After a few years of working in the fashion field, in 2016, she enrols the Fashion Culture and Management Course at the University of Bologna. In the period 2017-2018, she held the position of Students’ Tutor for the FCM Degree Course at Rimini Campus.

In March 2019, she obtained the Master Degree with a final dissertation titled Parallel practices of Fashion and Architecture: Parametric design as a convergence point between the design disciplines.

She is an Architect and currently Post-Doc Research Fellow at DAR-Department of the Arts the University of Bologna (Italy). In March 2016, she joined the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation (LCC) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) as Post-Doc Fellow. The 2-year research project "Stockholm: Housing in the Interwar Period" was financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and one further year at the LCC was focused on the housing interventions built by the Danish architect Kay Fisker’s in Copenhagen and his teaching design method. She is one of the scientific curators of the exhibition “Housing – Frankfurt, Wien and Stockholm” at the EPFL -Archizoom (2018) and also of the thematic issue “Housing builds cities” for the journal «Urban Planning» (2019).

In 2015, she undertook a PhD degree in “Architecture and Design Cultures” at the University of Bologna (Italy) in co-tuition with KTH–Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Stockholm), where she analysed some not yet investigated projects of the Swedish architect Ragnar Östberg. Supported by the C. M. Lerici Foundation (Stockholm -Sweden), she published the book “Ragnar Östberg. Villa Geber: una casa nell’arcipelago” (2017), which recasts the twofold focus of her PhD dissertation by analysing in much more details the domestic project.

Her research interests spans on the cultural transfer of ideas and design questions between North-South.

Giovanni Mugnaini is a PhD Student at the University of Bologna, Department for Life Quality Studies, Doctoral Program in Science and Culture of Well-Being and Lifestyles.

Flavia Piancazzo is a PhD candidate at the Department of Science and Culture of Well-Being and Lifestyles Doctoral Program at the University of Bologna.

Her research topic is about the relationship between fashion and society, with a focus on cultural appropriation and racism in the Cultural Industry. In particular, the aim of her research is to investigate the thin line among the concepts of cultural appropriation and inspiration, racism and provocation in fashion.

Giorgia Ravaioli is a PhD student in Photography and Visual Culture at the Department for Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna (cycle XXXVI). Her research interests currently concern photographic sedimentations, aesthetic practices related to them, the photographic archive as a theoretical object and the phenomenology of self-representation through photography. She has been collaborating with the Master in Design and Technology for Fashion Communication (University of Bologna)  since 2018, working specifically on visual strategy and on the workshop "Out of the Archives: from Physical Display to Digital Communication".

Lorenzo Stacchio is a PhD student in Computer Science at the Department for Life Quality Studies at the University of Bologna.

His research topic concerns the application of Deep Learning paradigms to Fashion garment design process. In particular, his research mainly focus on discovering future popularity of fashion garments and generate new one basing on fashion inspiration based on previously predictions.

Eleonora Stacchiotti is a PhD student in Visual Studies at the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna. After finishing a Research Master at the University of Utrecht with a project on the use of Immersive Virtual Reality in the artistic field to educate people about  the climate crisis, she is pursuing her PhD with the investigation of possible uses of immersive technologies in the field of Fashion, with a focus on the emerging visual culture. She is member of the interdisciplinary research group Dalla Ridda, based at the Department of Philosophy in Bologna.

She is a PhD student in Arts, History, Society (cycle XXXIX) at the Department of Arts, where she conducts her research on feminist photographic production and collaborates on the PRIN 2022 - 2025 Italian Feminist Photography project. Identity politics and gender strategies (Principal investigator: Prof. Federica Muzzarelli).

She obtained a degree in Communication at the University of Padua in a.y. 2017 and a Master's degree at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, graduating in Fashion Studies in a.y. 2023 with a thesis entitled "Fashion, feminism and the social construction of gender: How clothes build and define our identity".