CV Summary

Laura Pomesano, architect and PhD candidate in "Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories" at ISCTE-IUL, with a thesis titled "Cartographies of the dismissed industry in the metropolitan context of Lisbon: the influence of performing arts in defining urban regeneration public policies" She studies, through an interdisciplinary approach, alternative forms of reusing industrial heritage and intervening in deindustrialized neighborhoods, aiming to promote strategies that prevent phenomena of social recomposition and loss of character. She participated (2018-2020) in the European project "ROCK - Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural Heritage in Creative and Knowledge Cities"  and co-organized (2019 and 2020) the Summer Schools  "Tur - Technopolitics in Urban Regeneration".

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
PhD Arquitetura dos Territórios Metropolitanos Contemporâneos 2017 - 2024
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
Other type of qualification Seminário de Especialização O lugar da cidade: a Mouraria - observar, avaliar, agir - um projeto participativo 2019 - 2019
Universitá degli Studi di Sassari
Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica - Italy - Alghero
Integrated M.Sc. Arquitetura 2008 - 2015
Research Interests
Urban Studies
Digital cartography
Cultural heritage
Industrial heritage
Cultural and creative Industries
Gentrification