Paola Piscitelli

Main focus

• Urban studies
• Urban Souths
• Migration
• Documentary filmmaking and visual ethnography

Film productions

“Io non vedo il mare | Border[scape]s” Director. Produced by Museo Madre (https://youtu.be/kLz0PMG_Tf0)

“Radio Riders” (2020) Produced by Scuole Civiche, Author, director, camera operator, and editor

Awarded at the Job Films Day 2020 and selected at the Work@Campus – Festival dei Popoli.

“L’Adolescenza delle città” (2019), Director: Alessandro Penta. Feltrinelli production. Project curatorship and assistant editor for the film.

“Mango’s friends” (2018). Author, director, camera operator, and editor. Fuorirotta production. http://www.-

fuorirotta.org/progetti/ritorni-e-ripartenze-tra-portici-e-koswadiya/

Since 2019

• DAAD PRIME research fellow (PostDoc Position) in Urban Studies between the University of Hamburg (Germany), the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and the Università Federico II di Napoli.
• Working Group AG KGGU – Arbeitsgruppe “Kritische Geographien Globaler Ungleichheiten” (Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities)

2017

• PhD in Regional Planning and Public Policy (passed with distinction) – IUAV-University of Venice (Italy)
  Title: “Mobile Urbanity: Translocal Traders and the City in Southern Africa”.
  Supervisors: Professor Balbo M. and Pasqui G.

2014-2016

• Visiting researcher at: Faculty of Geography – University of Neuchâtel, on invitation of Prof. Söderström O., Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 2016; Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, on invitation of Prof. Raimundo I. Maputo (Mozambique), November – December 2015; University of Westminster – Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment – London (UK) – February – June 2015; the African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS) of the University of the Witwatersrand, within the framework of the EU Program “Sharing Spaces. Research on intercultural cities and collective spaces” – Johannesburg (South Africa),

2014-2015

• Internship at the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) – University of Witwatersrand, on invitation of Prof. Huchzermeyer M. Johannesburg (South Africa)

2014

• Post-Graduate Program “COOPERA(C)TION Knowledge and Skills for Sustainable Cities in the Global South” – Polytechnic of Milan (Italy)

2013

• Master of Science in Urban Planning and Policy Design (Magna cum laude) – Polytechnic of Milan (Italy). Title: “EgIptaly. Territorial survey on migration between Egypt and Italy”. Supervisors: Prof. Bricocoli M. and Prof. Pasqui G.

2010

• Bachelor Degree in Urban Planning and Territorial Sciences (Magna cum laude) – Federico II University of Naples (Italy) Title: “Il waterfront di Portici come occasione di riconcettualizzazione del mare come bene comune”. Supervisor: Prof. Dal Piaz A.