Full Professor in Design at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano since 2023. Degree in Architecture (2000) and PhD in Technological Innovation for Architecture and Industrial Design (2006).

Reserch topics include spatial and service design, design for social innovation with a focus on the relation between community and public spaces.

Member of the international coordination committee (since 2011) of the DESIS - Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability network https://www.desisnetwork.org/. Coordinator of the Polimi DESIS Lab research group (2020-2024) https://www.desis.polimi.it/ at the Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano.

Coordinator of several European and national research projects including Human Cities/Challenging the city scale (2014-2018) and Smoties - Creative works with small and remote places (2020-2024) funded by Creative Europe. https://humancities.eu/smoties/

Scientific coordinator since 2020 of Off Campus Nolo, a neighbourhood living lab of Polisocial - Social Responsibility Programme of the Politecnico di Milano at the Municipal Market in Viale Monza (Milan).

Coordinator of the “Politong” dual degree programmes with Tongji University in Shanghai (2008-22) for the School of Design - Politecnico di Milano, coordinator of the GIDE (Group for International Design Education) network https://gidegroup.wordpress.com/ (2012-2018).

Politecnico di Milano Rector's delegate for strategic relations with Tongji University in Shanghai (2017-2022).

Politecnico di Milano Rector's delegate for cultural activities and public engagement (2023- ongoing).

Founder in 2011 of Coltivando - L'orto conviviale al Politecnico di Milano (The convivial vegetable garden at Politecnico di Milano) https://www.coltivando.polimi.it/ first community vegetable garden in Italy within a university managed with the neighbourhood community.

Co-director of the international series Design& within the series Politecnica, published by Maggioli Editore.

77 publications since 2005 including: 3 books, 6 editings, 7 journal articles, 24 book chapters, 37 conference proceedings.

Awarded with the XXV Compasso d'Oro (2018) with the applied research project campUS - Incubation and staging of social practices. Panettone d'Oro award for the civic virtue for the project Spesa Sospesa Nolo (2021). Awarded with Ambrogino d’Oro (Certificato di civica benemerenza -2022) and third prize at the Seoul Design Foundation Award (2023) with honorable mention for Off Campus Polimi, the neighbourhood living lab of the Politecnico di Milano.