Elena Ostanel

Elena Ostanel
  • PhD in Regional Planning and Public Policies
  • Fellow at Università Iuav di Venezia

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Introduction
I'm currently Marie Curie Fellow for the project NEIGHBOURCHANGE based at Iuav of Venice, University of Toronto, TUDelft. Researcher at the UNESCO Chair on Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants, at Iuav I coordinate the Master Course on Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation. Visiting Professor at Venice International University for the Course City and Immigration. I'm among the founder of a University Spin Off dedicated to public sector innovation/urban regeneration.
Current institution
Università Iuav di Venezia
Current position
  • Fellow
Additional affiliations
February 2018 - present
Università Iuav di Venezia
Position
  • Master's Student
Description
  • www.urisemaster.org
November 2017 - present
Università Iuav di Venezia
Position
  • Fellow
Description
  • I will be based at UofT in Toronto collaborating with the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership and at TUDelft joining the DEPRIVEDHOODS ERC Project.
September 2016 - present
Università Iuav di Venezia
Position
  • Project Manager
Description
  • To know more about the research Project please follow: http://www.unescochair-iuav.it/urgent-urban-re-generation/
Education
February 2009 - March 2012
Università Iuav di Venezia
Field of study
  • Regional Planning and Public Policy
February 2006 - February 2008
University of Bologna
Field of study
  • International Cooperation and Development
March 2002 - March 2005
University of Padua
Field of study
  • International Relations and Human Rights

Publications

Publications (22)
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The presence of immigration in the European urban landscape contributes to the re-questioning of taken-for-granted use and meanings of the urban texture. In Italian cities, we witness a contemporary struggle between different groups and individuals for the physical and symbolical production and appropriation of public space. This paper is based on...
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The objective of this book is to explore, from a variety of different scientific backgrounds and diverse geographical perspectives, the theoretical and policy potential that the notion of the intercultural city offers within the context of the contemporary globalized city. Focus is particularly directed towards the growing number of cities in both...
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Today we witness strengthened structural spatial divisions within city neighbourhoods, increased inequality and sharper lines of division.¹ Neighbourhoods are increasingly hyper-diverse.² In Europe, high rates of unemployment, austerity and poverty make hyper-diverse neighbourhoods and local communities increasingly complex and problematic. Traditi...
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With the end of the apartheid regime, and despite the strict immigration policies introduced since 1994, the number of foreign workers in Johannesburg has increased and now constitutes about 7 per cent of the city's population. This paper examines the relationship between migration and urban belonging and inclusion for Mozambican migrants in post-a...
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This paper presents and discusses a quantitative analysis of culture-led urban regeneration initiatives in Italy. It draws on a database of projects built using the filter of the national funding schemes launched between 2012 and 2018. The main objective of the research is to build an overview of the phenomenon of culture-based urban regeneration i...
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Case di Quartiere a Torino e il Patrimonio Cittadino di Uso e Gestione Comunitaria a Barcellona. I Laboratori di Quartiere a Bologna e Mercato Lorenteggio a Milano. Asilo Filangieri a Napoli, Via Baltea3 a Torino e Piazza Gasparotto a Padova. Sono tutti Spazi fuori dal Comune in cui forme di autorganizzazione, istituzioni intelligenti, imprese soci...
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Questo breve contributo ha l’obiettivo di analizzare l’associazione di due termini, rigenerazione urbana e innovazione sociale, che fino a qualche tempo fa sarebbero stati considerati un ossimoro. In un recente testo a cura di Leary e McCarty le iniziative di rigenerazione urbana sono infatti definite come strategie con l’intento di contrastare il...
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L’articolo si sofferma sui caratteri e sulle dinamiche del fenomeno immigrazione nei piccoli comuni del Veneto e del Lazio, e sui risultati delle esperienze di co-progettazione con gli attori locali, condotte in due piccoli comuni, Feltre e Riano, all’interno della ricerca PRIN "Piccoli comuni e coesione sociale". Obiettivo e quello di delineare co...
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Nei pressi delle stazioni ferroviarie sono particolarmente presenti e vi-sibili alcune tendenze che interessano le città contemporanee: l'aumento della complessità come conseguenza dell'immigrazione e della differenzia-zione sociale; la frammentazione; la crescita dell'esclusione sociale, in par-ticolare in tempo di crisi economica; un'elevata conf...
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L’articolo introduce il monografico ricostruendo il percorso che ha portato gli autori a concentrarsi sul concetto di giustizia spaziale per l’analisi della citta della differenza. In questo articolo la lente teorico-concettuale della giustizia spaziale viene descritta come possibile sguardo per osservare l’esperienza urbana della migrazione e gli...
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L'articolo pone l'attenzione sulla relazione tra 'ri-appropriazione' e 'ri-pubblicizzazione' dello spazio urbano mettendone in luce le risorse e anche alcune intrinseche ambivalenze. Da un lato analizza come le pratiche di ri-appropriazione possano interrompere una produzione di spazio data per scontata, contrastando in tal modo, anche se spesso in...

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