SIMONA BRAVAGLIERI

Biography

Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architecture of Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. She holds a PhD in Preservation of the Architectural Heritage at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on ‘The heritage of the Cold War. Identification, mapping and preservation of decommissioned military buildings and sites in Italy (1947–1989)’. Research interests include cultural heritage and sustainability, urban and rural regeneration, built heritage in the post-conflict and catastrophe context, and gender studies. She is also part of the editorial staff of the journal ‘ANANKE’, founded by Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, one of the primary references for the preservation debate in Italy since the end of the 20th century. Among her most recent publications are: ‘The Politics of the Past in Kosovo: Divisive and Shared Heritage in Mitrovica’ in Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia. Synchronous Pasts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); and ‘Beyond the Damage, the Reconstruction of L’Aquila’ in Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters (Springer, 2021).