Entre l'abandonament i les empentes resilients a les muntanyes territorials d'Orobie (Bèrgam)

Alisia Tognon is an architect and Postdoc Researcher at Politecnico di Milano (Dastu), where she also holds her doctorate in Architectural and Urban Design (2016). Her research activity focuses on investigate the concept of memory and identity, related with vernacular architecture (case studies: Europe, Africa and India). The research is oriented to understand the role of modification and transformation processes and the strong importance of intangible cultural heritage in the contemporary age. She deepened her research as visiting Ph.D. at University of California - Berkeley (USA, 2013) and Oxford Brookes University (UK, 2014). In 2019 she won the International Research and Teaching fellowship at CEPT University - Ahmedabad (India), where her research and academic courses have investigated the concept of urban regeneration and resilience in the historic City of Ahmadabad.
In 2021-2022 she started as an associate visiting researcher Fondazione Edmund Mach (Trento - Italy) to develop joint research between Polimi / FEM concerning the regeneration of underutilized alpine territories and activating resilience processes. Currently she is Adjunct Professor at Politecnico di Milano (Dastu), where from 2009 she is working in collaboration with, partaking in contract work, national research projects (PRIN, FARB), workshops and international conferences. From 2022 to 2024 she is Associate Researcher at LabiSAlp - Università della Svizzera italiana - Accademia di Architettura (Mendrisio CH), where her reaserach focuses on the topic of collective ownership applied to spatial relationships and memories in the contemporary Alpine landscape.

Marco Bovati (Milan, 1968), architect PhD, is Associate Professor in Architectural and Urban Design (ICAR 14) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
His research concerns the relationship between architectural and urban design and environmental sustainability, with particular focus on the theoretical, methodological and operational implications of the ecological issue for the disciplines of space. His work is applied to strategies of sustainable architectural and urban regeneration, with particular attention to the mid-scale and the role of environmental characteristics establishing guidelines for actions.
He is author of more than 100 essays and publications on the relationship between architectural and urban design and sustainability, on sustainable architecture, on architectural and urban regeneration in fragile contexts, and on design issues in general.