Living together: Santa Chiara as an infrastructure for living in the Ancient City of Naples

Emma Buondonno is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II. Lecturer and member of the Board of the XVI and XIX Cycle Doctorate, she is the scientific director of numerous research projects and author of about 200 publications. She is the designer of the first bilingual and bicultural Italo-Argentine school in San Francisco-Cordoba, the Rivisondoli spa, the Roccaraso schools, the Lo Spiniello urban park in Acerra and the restoration of the historic Villa Vannucchi park in San Giorgio a Cremano. She is involved in territorial development for the political and administrative reorganisation of Campania's municipalities and has been Deputy Mayor of Melito di Napoli and Town Planning Councillor in the towns of Ercolano, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Marano di Napoli and Avellino. In 2008 she won the first prize in the international design competition for the Portici coastline and the port of Granatello, and in 1998 the first prize in the national competition for the environmental rehabilitation of the Sele plain. Member of the Order of Architects of Naples and the Province since October 2018.

Angela D'Agostino is Associate Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II. She is a member of the Board of the Doctorate in Architecture and Professor of the 2nd level Master in Architecture and Design for Inland Areas at the same University. The study and identification of strategies for the reactivation and design of architecture and marginal areas are among the main themes of his research. Scientific leader and member of national and international research groups, in particular she was P.I. of the research project Rethinking lastscapes Perspectives funded by the FRA2020 call; she is Critical Mass Unit of Spoke 7 of the GRINS project funded by PNRR, Mission 4; she is a member of the research group proposing the DISPLAY project for the PRIN 2022 call; she is a member of the research group proposing the project From common goods to ecological resources. Prospects for the environmental development of areas subject to civil use in Campania and Molise bando PRIN 2022PNRR. He is a member of the international research network Designing Heritage Tourism Landscapes. Recent publications include Monuments in Motion. Scenarios of cities (2017), Challenges and issues between innovative technologies and landscape networks (2021); Across the Giant. From research project to research project (ed. 2023); RlPoggioreale: images and imaginaries. Cemeteries and cities in comparison (ed. with al. 2024).

Ferruccio Izzo is Full Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Naples Federico II. He worked in the studios of W. Blurock, Eduardo Catalano, Richard Meier and David Chipperfield. He has taught at London Metropolitan University (1992/96), Cambridge University (1995/96), Vienna University of Technology (2010/12) and has lectured at various European universities. He founded Alberto Izzo & Partners in 1996. Coordinator of the Master’s Degrees Progettazione di Eccellenza per la Città Storica at the Federico II University. His research has focused on the regeneration of the historic European city, to which he has dedicated several studies and publications. His projects include the NATO Library in Aviano, Piazza della Libertà in Avellino, the hotel and office complex in Gricignano (CE), the Polina social housing estate in Gricignano (CE), a nursery school in Vicenza, an archaeological park with antiquarium in Nola (NA), and the Cittadella Giudiziaria in Salerno with David Chipperfield.

Carmine Piscopo is Full Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the author of essays and articles on architecture and the city. His publications include the two volumes La Città Collettiva (Siracusa 2024), Diritto alla Città e Spazi Collettivi (EU 2019); Proprietà, Beni Comuni e Democrazia. Il caso Napoli (EU 2018); Il progetto Bagnoli (Milano 2018); Restart Scampia (Roma 2018); Architecture and commons. The prospect of civic use (Roma 2017); La Città, macchina desiderante (Roma 2012); and Architettura: la macchina dall'infinita resistenza (Napoli 2011). From 2013 to 2021 he was Councillor for Town Planning and Public Goods in the Municipality of Naples and Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Naples.