She's an architect with a long lasting experience in international projects focussed on territorial development developed with the communities: from the beginning of her career, she's been coordinating multidisciplinary teams and innovative projects with a strong cultural impact. Since 2013, she's been contributing to the successful bidding process of the city of Matera as European Capital of culture 2019 and, from 2015 onward, she's been responsible for the implementation and the management of the Open Design School project, one of the pillar of the candidacy and of the legacy of the ECoC year, based on design, peer learning and multidisciplinarity as a leverage for a new educational and economic paradigm.