Staff Profile
Dr Francesca Lanz
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
- Email: francesca.lanz@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)7863883345
- Address: School of Arts & Cultures
Newcastle University
3rd Floor Armstrong Building
Queen Victoria Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
From January - May 2018 I was Visiting Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (NL). I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the School of Arts and Cultures of Newcastle University (UK).
Since 2006 I have been collaborating to various research projects and teaching activities, teaming up with different departments of Politecnico di Milano, undertaking research in the field of interior architecture, museum and heritage studies. Since 2009 I carry out teaching activities at POLIMI supervising BA, MA and PhD students and developing courses at BA and MA level on adaptive reuse and interior design for architectural preservation.
My research lie in the intersection of different fields ranging from museum and heritage studies to interior architecture,museography and exhibition design, with a particular interest on the on the potentials intertwinement between their specific different disciplinary approaches, theories and practices.
Since 2011 I have contributed to the development and submission of a number of national and international research proposals in the field of cultural heritage and architecture, many of which have been grant awarded.
Among these, I participated to the bid writing for the collaborative research project MeLa (EU-FP7, 2011–2015) on museum and migration, coordinated by Prof Luca Basso Peressut (Politecnio di Milano) for which I was Research Associate serving as Deputy Coordinator and Dissemination Manager. From 2016 to 2019 I researched on contentious heritage within the EU-H2020 funded project TRACES - Transmitting Contentious Heritages with the Arts, coordinated by Prof Klaus Schönberger from Klagenfurt University, for which I was also the Dissemination Manager.
In 2019 I was given a contract by the National Park of the Asinara Island (Sardinia, Italy) for a scientific consultancy on the adaptive reuse and musealisation of the former prison at Fornelli.
I am the National PI for the HERA project En/counter/points: (re)negotiating belonging through culture and contact in public space and place, which will run from 2019 to 2022 under the responsibility of Dr. Susannah Eckersley (Newcastle University).
My current major research project is ReMIND a two-year research project funded in 2019 by the European Union under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Individual Fellowship programme.
- Lanz F. Architectural traces and/as contentious heritage: the case of former prisons. In: Kusek, R; Purchla J, ed. Heritage and Society. Krakow, Poland: International Cultural Centre, 2019, pp.173-188.
- Lanz F, Whitehead C. Exhibiting voids: displaying migration and the role of the built environment. In: Dogramaci, B; Mersmann, B, ed. Handbook of Art and Global Migration: Theories, Practices, and Challenges. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, pp.331-348.
- Whitehead C, Lanz F. Museums and a Progressive Sense of Place. In: Golding V; Walklate J, ed. Museums and Communities: Diversity, Dialogue and Collaboration in an Age of Migrations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019, pp.20-41.
- Whitehead C, Lanz F. "Only Connect": the heritage and emotional politics of showcasing the suffering migrant. In: Mark O'Neill and Glenn Hooper, ed. Connecting Museums. Routledge, 2019.
- Lanz F, ed. Patrimoni inattesi: Riusare per valorizzare. Siracusa (IT): Letteraventidue, 2018.
- Lanz F. Re‐Inhabiting. Thoughts on the Contribution of Interior Architecture to Adaptive Intervention: People, Places, and Identities. Journal of Interior Design 2018, 43(2), 3-10.
- Whitehead C, Lanz F. Europe and Contentious Cultural Heritage. TRACES 2017, 2.
- Lanz F, Montanari E. Il Progetto del Museo Inclusivo. In: Longo A; Rabbiosi C; Salvadeo P, ed. Forme dell’inclusività. Pratiche, spazi, progetti. Santarcangelo di Romagna (IT): Maggioli, 2017.
- Lanz F. Staging Migration (in) Museums. A Reflection on Exhibition Design Practices for the Representation of Migration in European Contemporary Museums. Museum & Society 2016, 14(1), 178-192.
- Lanz F, Montanari E, ed. Advancing Museum Practices. Turin, Italy: U. Allemandi & Co, 2014.
- Lanz F. City Museums Beyond the Museum: Networking as a Strategy for Twenty-first-century European City Museums. In: Innocenti, P, ed. Migrating Heritage: Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014, pp.149-162.
- Lanz F. City Museums in a Transcultural Europe. In: Gourievidis, L, ed. Museums and Migration: History, Memory and Politics. London: Routledge, 2014, pp.27-43.
- Lanz F, Montanari E. Proactive Spaces. An Insight on the Spatial and Museographical Features of 21st Century "Post-museum". In: Engaging Spaces. Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies (NODEM 2014 Conference). 2014, Warsaw, Poland: Nodem.
- Basso Peressut L, Lanz F, Postiglione G, ed. European Museums in the 21st Century: Setting the Framework. Milan (IT): Politecnico di Milano, 2013.
- Lanz F. Placing the City within its Museum: The relationship between heritage, people, and territory in the Italian tradition of civic museums. In: Whitehead, C; Mason, R; Eckersley, S; Lloyd, K, ed. "Placing” Europe in the Museum: people(s), places, identities. Milan (IT): Politenico di Milano, 2013.