Diana Ciufo is an architect and a PhD candidate at Sapienza University of Rome. She attended the Universities of Porto (FAUP) and Rome (Sapienza), where she graduated with honors. In 2013 she moved to the Netherlands where she collaborated with several firms as a freelance architect. She currently lives in Rome where she works mainly as a set designer. Common space and its activation tools are at the center of her personal research.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.