Doctoral Candidate
Lorenza Manfredi
lore.manfredi@gmail.com
Room A 624
T + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21908
F + 49 – 30 – 314 – 21907
Curriculum Vitae
Lorenza Manfredi joined Habitat Unit in 2019 as a PhD candidate in joint-program with the IUAV University of Venice and the Technical University Berlin. Her research “Disruptions. Spreeraum Ost, Berlin 1990 - 2020” investigates the reconfiguration of autonomous spaces in the last 30 years in the Spreeraum Ost area. The reflection which emerges reveals ambiguities and vulnerabilities resulting from the neoliberal urbanization of Berlin. The analysed projects developed pragmatical yet cynical survival tactics practicing unconventional collaborations with the aim of keeping alive plural spaces in the contemporary city. For this research project she has been a DAAD and STIBET scholarship holder and published articles and book chapters for Springer, Jovis, Transcript, Quodlibet, LetteraVentidue and others.
She also works as a freelance architect and manages and curates the project and art space Officina Neukölln. She initiated and led design workshops with the collectives of Stellepolari and Simerilab in Italy, Spain and Lebanon.
Since 2019
Joint PhD Project at the TU University Berlin (Habitat Unit) and the IUAV University of Venice (Curriculum in Urbanism). Working title: “Disruptions. Spreeraum Ost, Berlin 1990 – 2020”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Cristina Bianchetti (PoliTO) and Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz (TU Berlin). The thesis defense is scheduled for September 2022.
2012
Master Graduation in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano
2010-2011
Exchange year study at the Bauhaus University of Weimar
2009
Bachelor Graduation in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano
2008-2009
Exchange year study at the Brandenburgische Universität Cottbus
2016 – 2022
Co-founder, project manager and curator of Officina Neukölln, artists-run space in Berlin
since 2016
Partner of Stellepolari - landscape architecture workshops
2014-2020
Collaborator at 100Landschaftsarchitektur Thilo Folkerts, Berlin
2013
Intership at United Architektur, Berlin
2012
Internship at Superpool Architecture, Istanbul
Since 2019
Joint PhD Project at the TU University Berlin (Habitat Unit) and the IUAV University of Venice (Curriculum in Urbanism). Working title: “Disruptions. Spreeraum Ost, Berlin 1990 – 2020”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Cristina Bianchetti (PoliTO) and Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz (TU Berlin). The thesis defense is scheduled for September 2022.
2020 - 2022
Participant at the Research Project “Lifelines. Politics, aethics and the affective economy of inhabiting”, directed by Prof. Camillo Boano and Prof. Cristina Bianchetti at the Politecnico di Torino.
WS20
Collaborator at the course in Urbanism, Politecnico di Torino.
Tutored Workshops
2021 - “Summer School” - informal learning and placemaking with the community in Simeri, (IT), invited by Simerilab Laboratorio Urbano
2018 - “Connecting Landscapes” - analysing and understanding the abandoned railway systemnthat crosses Byblos city and realizing a network of signs to propose a better use of it in Byblos (LEB), invited by MEDS - Meeting of Design Students
2017 - “Public Natures” - analysing, building a concept and realizing ephemeral interventions around the uncertain publicness of the Parco Begni in Pennabilli (IT), invited by PaesaggiMigranti
2016 - “Back to life” - analysing, building a concept and realzing interventions around the fragile ruins of the Pena Negra in the town of Blanca (SP), invited by AADK Spain
2022
Lorenza Manfredi, Jannis Schiefer, Laura Veronese. Through Berlin: Urban Natures In: Boschiero, Folkerts, Latini (eds.), Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände and Berlin’s Urban Nature, International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2022. Benetton Foundation, Treviso
Manfredi, Autonomous spaces in Berlin. Cynical resistance tactics in the neoliberal city. In: Boano, Bianchetti (eds.), Lifelines. Jovis, Berlin
2021
Kvitkova and Manfredi. Reconfiguring the Neoliberal City: Three Stories of Urban Pioneers in Berlin. In: Vassallo & others (eds.), Spatial Tensions in urban design. Understanding Contemporary Urban Phenomena. Springer, Berlin
2020
Manfredi, Azioni immediate. In: Llevat Soy and Martin (eds.), Mass Production makes a better World! Che fine ha fatto l’utopia fordista nella Torino contemporanea?. Lettera Ventidue, Siracusa
2019
Manfredi and Martin, Produzione addomesticata. In: Bianchetti (ed.), Territorio e Produzione. Quodlibet Studio, Roma
2018
Colombo, Manfredi, Where context meets content(s). In: Mameli & others (eds.), Urban Appropriation Strategies. Exploring Space-making Practices in Contemporary European Cityscapes. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
2021
RC21 Conference - Session 11: The Political Aesthetics of Common Space: Navigating the Gaze of the City, the State, the Market Manfredi, “Planning common spaces in contemporary Berlin: Holzmarkt, RAW Gelände and Haus der Statistik experimenting in the gentrified city”
Ge.Co. International Conference of Urban Commons Manfredi, “Establishing temporary uses in the neoliberal city: the case of RAW Gelände in Berlin”
2020
Berlin/Neapel, die soziale Stadt Kvitkova, Manfredi, “Permeable interiors. Compatibility between divergent orientations in the contemporary european city – the case of Berlin.” Kvitkova, Limongi, Manfredi, Marfella, “Back to the Microscale” Gioia, Kim, Manfredi, “Dynamics of experimentation by building the social city in Naples and Berlin”
2019
AESOP Planning for transition Manfredi, “The embodied self and the city – permeable interiors in contemporary Berlin”. Paper in the conference records
2018
SIU Societá Italiana degli Urbanisti Manfredi, “Zwischennutzung updated: sharing spaces in Berlin”. Paper in the conference records
2016
Urban Appropriation Strategies Conference, Uni Kassel Colombo, Manfredi, “Where context meets content(s) - an overview on the current work of Stellepolari”
53rd IFLA International Federation of Landscape Architects: Manfredi, “Narratives in the public space. The Talkative graffiti project gives voice to urbanities“. Paper in the conference records
2022
STIBET Research grant
2021
Schinkel Wettbewerb recognition price with the project “Stadt Ouverture”, in team with Tobias Grünewald and Jannis Schiefer
2014 – 2016
DAAD Research Grant