Project Title:

Commoning Flood Adaptation: Fluid Governance for systemic flood adaptation design actions.

Grant Title:

Housing and settlement design and governance strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation of informal territories

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Starting in November 2022, I am a PhD candidate at RMIT and POLIMI!

Supervision: Ass. Prof. Monica Lavagna (POLIMI), Ass. PRof. Paul Minifie (RMIT)

External partner: CMCC

 

The research focuses on adaptation to flooding in the built environment - particularly on participatory decision-making processes, cutting across management and governance. Through different empirical and creative methods, the PhD reflects on a system perspective to flood adaptation, one able to grasp the combined contribution of spatially distributed and diversified flood design actions, through the lens of public and private adaptation. The research frames floods as both natural and socially constructed phenomena, promoting collective governance to prevent maladaptation, while looking at flood adaptation as a common, focusing on Fluid Governance to flood adaptation as a practice-in-the-making.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska‐Curie grant agreement No. 101034328.