Alessandra Marcon

An architect and urban planner with a doctorate in urban and spatial planning, she is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Iuav and an associate member of the OCS laboratory at Ensa Paris-Est, Université Gustave Eiffel. She graduated in architecture from Iuav in Venice and obtained a postgraduate diploma as an architect-urbanist at the École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires in Paris-Est in 2015. Between 2013 and 2018 she worked as a project manager for two architecture and urban planning agencies in Paris (UrbanAct and Obras), and since 2012 she has worked as a project manager and researcher in the collective Latitude Platform for urban research and design. In September 2022, following a joint PhD between Iuav and Ensa Paris-est, she obtained a double PhD in Urban Planning, under the supervision of Maria Chiara Tosi and Sébastien Marot. She has a cross-disciplinary interest in landscape and territorial design and research. Her most recent research focuses on the role of the urban project in territories and productive landscapes, with an emphasis on the issues associated with the agro-ecological transition and peasant farming initiatives. Her work aims to contribute to the construction of new international dialogues and collaborations, alongside teaching experiences between Italy, France and Belgium.