Professor Flavia Marcello is a writer of place-based fiction with notes of, sometimes sardonic, humour where characters question their identity. Her biography of World War 2 Resistance fighter, Carla Capponi has been shortlisted for the 2026 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship.
She is an expert on the unique and multi-layered history of Rome with a focus on the Italian Fascist Period.
She is director of Synergy3 Consulting, teaches at WEA in Sydney and is a mentor with the Envisage Program.
Public space and life in the polis were from the beginning tightly connected, both in terms of city governance and shared actions of its inhabitants. Whether carefully designed or loosely articulated, public space shapes behavior, providing a frame for the norms and rules of society. At the same time, it implicitly invites transgression. From the agora of Athens to the central squares in the former Communist Bloc, from the streets of San Francisco to the paths in the favelas or other informal communities, public spaces are arenas of political expression, where official discourse and unofficial voices meet/ overlap/ come into conflict with each other.
Convenors: Flavia Marcello, Centre for Design Innovation and Carmen Popescu, ENSAB
Scientific committee: Marion Hohlfeldt, PTAC, University of Rennes2; Frederic Sotinel, GRIEF, ENSAB & Ian Woodcock, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT
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STOP PRESS! Living Politics in the City 2 to be held in Melbourne in July 2019. Call for papers now available.
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