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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
Background
I am currently working at the School of Arts and Cultures of Newcastle University (UK) as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, researching on the adaptive reuse of former asylums into “mind museums” and their role in fostering critical reflection on the histories and contemporary problems of dealing with mental health in society (ReMIND research project).


Background
I hold a Ph.D. in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design and an MS in Architecture, I am a lecturer in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano  (IT) and in 2018 I received the Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as Associate Professor.
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).
I have been trained as an architect at Politecnico di Milano where I continued my career firstly as MA student, then as PhD candidate and as post-doctoral Research Associate and finally as a lecturer, undertaking research in the field museum and heritage with a focus on museum and exhibition design and participating in several major national and international projects in these fields.
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.
 


Research

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. 

 


 



 
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