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Elena Parnisari (Italy, 1992). Architect and urban planner, PhD candidate in architecture. Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano (2015), Master's degree in Spatial Planning and Urban Project from FEUP and FAUP (2017), PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program in Architecture-Urban Forms and Dynamics at FAUP (2020), researcher in Territory Dynamics and Morphologies at CEAU (2021). Member of the associations APU-Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas (2018), ASF-Architetti Senza Frontiere Italia (2018) and MA- Mulheres na Arquitectura (2020). Since 2014, she has collaborated in urban, architectural and social scale projects in Italy, Argentina, Switzerland, India and Peru, always recognizing the communities’ importance in participatory processes, designing spaces for the people and with the people, getting involved in the most critical urban situations affecting the poorest territories of the world.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ELENA PARNISARI

Citation names

  • Parnisari, Elena

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6D18-630F-1FFB
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6523-7947

Email addresses

  • elena.parnisari@live.com (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 932155913 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua do Conde de Ferreira 90, 4300-195, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/25 - 2024/12
Ongoing
 Architechtural Doctoral Program (Doutoramento)
Major in Urban Forms and Dynamics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"Searching for equitable, inclusive and caring urban neighbourhoods: measuring children’s right to the city through urban design. An urban laboratory in Contumil and Lagarteiro social housing. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018/10 - 2018/10
Concluded
 IELTS certificate (Licence)
British Council Milano, Italy
 Overall Band 7.5
2015/09/15 - 2017/07/15
Concluded
 Planeamento e Projeto Urbano (Mestrado)
Major in Master degree in spatial planning and urban project
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Self-public planning Villa 31. The public space as a social place that does not exist inside the house." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16/20
2016/08/20 - 2017/04/15
Attended
 Hábitat y Pobreza Urbana en América Latina (MHyPUAL) (Master)
Major in Thesis exchange program
Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo, Argentina
2011/10/04 - 2015/02/20
Concluded
 Architecture (Bachelor)
Major in Bachelor degree in Architecture
Politecnico di Milano Sede di Milano Leonardo, Italy
"La città orto: ricerca per un paesaggio commestibile. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 103/110
2014/11 - 2014/11
Concluded
 DIPLE-Diploma Intermédio De Português Língua Estrangeira B2 (Título de especialista)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Resultado Final 77, Classificaçào Final Bom
2013/09/15 - 2014/07/15
Attended
 Architecture (Licenciatura)
Major in Erasmus programme
Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2006/09 - 2011/07
Concluded
 Diploma Liceo Scientifico (Licence)
Liceo Enrico Fermi, Italy
 77/100
2010/06 - 2010/07
Concluded
 English Language Training Worldwide (Licence)
Embassy CES London, United Kingdom
2009/06 - 2009/07
Concluded
 English Language Course (Licence)
The University of Kent, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/02/16 - Current Integrated Researchers (Collaborator Researchers ) Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Portugal
2018/06/01 - 2020/09/30 Architect Bruno Parnisari Architetto, Italy
2019/02/18 - 2020/03/04 Architect Asociación Semillas para el Desarrollo Sostenible, Peru
2019/01/03 - 2019/02/15 Architect Critical Concrete - Social & Sustainable Architecture, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2018/05/30 Mobility Planner Jaipur Smart City, India
2018/03/01 - 2018/05/30 Urban Planner Urbz-user generated cities, India
2018/01/03 - 2018/02/26 Urban Planner Urbz-user generated cities, Switzerland
2017/01 - 2017/02 Urban Planner Volunteer Rupanco Farm, Chile
2015/06/01 - 2015/07/30 Intern Architect Cini Boeri Architetti, Italy
2015/05 - 2015/06 Volunteer EXPO 2015, Italy
2015/03 - 2015/04 Organic producer volunteer WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, Brazil
2014/04/01 - 2014/06/30 Intern Landscape Architect PROAP-Arquitectura paisagista , Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09 - 2024/12 Searching for equitable, inclusive and caring urban neighbourhoods: measuring children’s right to the city through urban design. An urban laboratory in Contumil and Lagarteiro social housing.
2021.06908.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Elena Parnisari. "Co-creation: involving everybody. An ethical dimension of the design process and a discussion of solutions between different actors with practical and creative goals.". 283-304. Atlantis Press, 2024.
    10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_23
  2. Parnisari, Elena. "Conto Até Mil. Visual Activism Narrative". In Sustainable Development Goals Series, 107-121. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-36993-3_9
Journal article
  1. PARNISARI, ELENA. "A participatory action research developed in Southern Europe. Measuring children's right to the city through urban design.". XV Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo_SIIU 2023 15 (2024): 1-14. https://revistes.upc.edu/index.php/SIIU/article/view/12778.
    Open access • Published
  2. Parnisari, Elena. "Os bairros das crianças. O papel da arquiteta num laboratório urbano de mulheres para promover a participação infantil no bairro do Lagarteiro.". Astrágalo. Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad 1 33-34 (2023): 353-371. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2023.i33-34.18.
    Published • 10.12795/astragalo.2023.i33-34.18
Newspaper article
  1. PARNISARI, ELENA; Antunes, Lia; RUSCONI, ISABELLA; Robalo, Patrícia ; Gabriela Cavalcanti. "Mulheres em Construção! Um projecto ecofeminista em Aveiro.", Le Monde Diplomatique. Edição Portuguesa., 2022, https://pt.mondediplo.com/2022/05/um-projecto-ecofeminista-em-aveiro.html.
Online resource
  1. PARNISARI, ELENA. Do you car or do you care?. 2018. https://futurearchitectureplatform.org/projects/ec3619ae-f70d-4a17-b352-d22eba5d2690/.
  2. PARNISARI, ELENA. Paesaggi mirati. 2013. https://www.domusweb.it/it/notizie/2013/06/28/paesaggi_mirati.html.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/23 Landscapes dreamed of and designed by children. How to make it visible to those who transform the urban space. International congress Uncertain Landscapes. Beyond transdisciplinary approaches.
Lab2PT (Guimarães, Portugal)
2023/07/03 Conto Até Mil. Visual activism narrative. UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 Copenhagen
UIA Nordic section: Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2023/06/16 The image of public spaces through children's perspective. AMPS conference - Livable Cities - New York City College of Technology - City Tech
New York City College of Technology - City Tech (New York, United States)
2023/06/14 A participatory action research developed in southern Europe. Measuring children’s right to the city through urban design. International Research Seminar on Urbanism 2023 - XV SIIU Lisbon
Lisbon School Architecture, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/03/30 Laboratorio urbano bairros Contumil e Lagarteiro. Festival Co.cidades!
Rés do Chão (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/05 Searching for equitable, inclusive and caring urban neighbourhoods: measuring children’s right to the city through urban design. 10th Child in the City World Conference Making Connections
Child in the City Foundation (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/06/16 Searching for Equitable, Inclusive and Caring Urban Neighbourhoods: Measuring Children’s Right to the City Through Urban Design. An urban laboratory in Contumil and Lagarteiro social housing. Nature for Inclusive and Innovative Urban Regeneration International Conference - URBiNAT
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, IULM University (Milan, Italy)
2022/06/16 Mulheres em Construção! An ecofeminist urban and training project in Portugal Nature for Inclusive and Innovative Urban Regeneration International Conference - URBiNAT
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, IULM University (Milan, Italy)
2022/04/01 Searching for equitable, inclusive and caring urban neighbourhoods: measuring children's right to the city through urban design. An urban laboratory in Contumil and Lagarteiro social housing. PhD Forum 2022 Encontro de Estudantes do PDA 'O que é investigar em Arquitetura?'
Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/09/14 - 2019/09/14 TED EXPERIENCES exhibition (2019/09/14 - 2019/09/14)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 TEDx Tukuy, Peru
2018/11/25 - 2018/11/25 Apriamo il carro di Ersilia LAB Exhibition (2018/11/25 - 2018/11/25)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 ASF-Architetti senza frontiere Italia onlus, Italy
2018/03/10 - 2018/03/15 Handstorm workshop - NYU Abu Dhabi university students (2018/03/10 - 2018/03/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Urbz-user generated cities, India
2018/02/15 - 2018/02/20 Delta V exhibition - participatory neighborhood project (2018/02/15 - 2018/02/20)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Urbz-user generated cities, Switzerland
2018/01/10 - 2018/01/13 Delta V - design workshop (2018/01/10 - 2018/01/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Urbz-user generated cities, Switzerland

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/20 Child in the City Cascais Seminar How to make children's rights mainstream in local policy planning?
The Child in the City Foundation, Netherlands
2021/01/01 - 2021/03/15 The Power of Design Competition
Call
Casa Comum, Portugal

CITTA: Centre for Research on Territory, Transport and Environment, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto – Hall of Biodiversity – Ciência Viva Center, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/01 Porto Design Biennale 2021 Competition
Call
Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal

Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal

Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos, Portugal
2018/12 - 2018/12 FAV 2019 Competition
Call
Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, France
2018/06/15 - 2018/06/17 Ersilia Lab - Participatory architecture planning workshop
Workshop
ASF-Architetti senza frontiere Italia onlus, Italy
2018/01 - 2018/01 3rd Call for ideas Competition
Call
Future Architecture Platform, Slovenia
2018/01 - 2018/01 7th Advanced architecture contest
Call
Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, Spain
2016/12/20 - 2016/12/20 RUA - Arte, intervencion y resistencia urbana workshop
Workshop
RUA - arte, intervencion y resistencia urbana , Argentina
2014/06/01 - 2014/06/12 Port cities - European workshop on urban quality
Workshop
EWUQ, Turkey

Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2013/09/10 - 2013/09/16 Tactical urbanism workshop
Workshop
Universidade Lusofóna de Humanidades e Tecnologias Departamento de Arquitetura, Portugal
2013/07/01 - 2013/07/07 Microcosmi meravigliosi - Architecture models exhibition
Exhibition
Studi aperti arts festival, Italy
2013/02/01 - 2013/02/28 Urban Agriculture - Architecture models exhibition
Exhibition
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2012/12 - 2012/12 TurinToGreen Competition
Call
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/01/01 - Current MA - Mulheres na Arquitectura
2017/09/01 - Current APU - Associação Portuguesa de Urbanistas Founding Member of Portuguese Association of Town Planners
2018/06/01 - 2020/12/31 ASF-Architetti senza frontiere Italia onlus

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/12/12 - 2023/12/12 Taller de Proyectos Urbanos III "Prácticas participativas en diferentes contextos geográficos y metodológicos" - Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Bachelor in architecture and urban planning Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador
2022/11/14 - 2022/11/14 International seminar series - Planning and design for outdoor education. The city as an educational place/Città come luogo di apprendimento. (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio Chieti Pescara Dipartimento di Architettura, Italy

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/11/01 - 2022/11/30 Peer reviewer - UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023 UIA The International Union of Architects, Denmark
Distinctions

Award

2017 Premio Dante 2017, 32° Edizione
Società Dante Alighieri, Italy
2015 Attestato di Benemerenza Civica
Comune di Milano, Italy