Francesca Savoldi

Rua da Graça n.74 Lisbon, 1170-180 Portugal (until April) fsavoldi@gmail.com

January 8th,1984| Italian

Ph.D. in e-Planning

EDUCATION

2010-2014 (April) Ph.D. student of e-Planning, University of Lisbon

Thesis: Urban walls or virtual bridges? The impact of the Internet on divided cities. The case of Belfast

Fully funded by FCT Portugal/EU

2007-2008 Master degree in Technology of Geographical InformationUniversity of Alcalà (Madrid)

Thesis: Italian experiences of Urban sustainability through technology

Parcially funded by Beca Cervantes

2003-2006 Bachelor degree in Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Milan

Thesis: Challenges of Gentrification. Two cases study: Lavapiès and Bovisa

Thesis awarded by Bank Agro BrescianoA year Fellowship Erasmus at Polytechnic University of Madrid

WORK EXPERIENCES

10/2008- 2/2009 Urban planner and G.I.S. consultantRegione Lombardia (Italian Government) Section: Lombardia InformaticaWorking on the Regional land plan, analysis and maps

2006-2007 Draftwoman(studying period) KV and IDOM

Drawing with AutoCAD and Photoshop

10/2005- 2/2006 Photographer and Video Maker(studying period) Max and C.O. Verbania

Artistic Sport image curator

PERSONAL COMPETENCES

Computer skills GIS: ArcGIS, IDRISIDrawing Adobe(Photoshop, IIlustrator, InDesign) CAD (AutoCAD and Rhino basic) Programming: basic level of Python, Run Revolution and Visual BasicEditing: Video (Premiere) Audio (Logic) Web: HTML and CSS

Social Work Assisting young desadvantage people -2010 Cyrenians (Edinburgh, Scotland). Helping to rebuild an alternative to the city’s slum -2009 (Granada, Nicaragua)

Additional information Founder member and President of the cultural association Flausinalx.com (from 2011) Attending the workshop of big data Barcelona (2012) Organizing of the workshop "Cities, technology and citizens." Lisbon (2012) Partecipating at the workshop of Technology and young people, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2011) Master in cultural anthropology. University of Bologna (2007) to be concluded Course of cinema, University of Edinburgh (2010) Course of ICT for develpment , Engeneer without borders, Madrid (2006) Publishing coordinator of the book “Projects e-Planning. The first step” (2012) CITIDEP Poll clerk. General Election. Brescia (2001)

Mother toungue Italian

Other languages Listening | Reading | Interaction | spoken production | WritingEnglish B2 C1 B2 B2 C1

Spanish C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 Portuguese B2 B2 B2 B2 B2

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Papers Savoldi F. Ferraz de Abreu, P. (2014) Internet, social capital and e-inclusion in the post-conflict Belfast. Expectations of community workers. The Journal of Urban Technology Volume 21, Issue 3, 2014

Savoldi, F. (2013) Internet tools and participatory democracy: The dynamic of online born activist movements - A case-oriented view. In Cities, citizens and technology" CITIDEP Press, Lisbon

Savoldi, F. and Traça, C.(2013) Agrocity: a proposal of an online platform for urban gardening. Building a community and improving urban agriculture in Lisbon. In Cities, citizens and technology. CITIDEP press, LisbonSavoldi F. and Ferraz De Abreu, P (2012) Technopolitic: sophistication and new dichotomies. International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research IJSER Vol.3 Issue 8

Savoldi F.Fernandes, A. Xavier, F. Carneiro, M. (2012) ‘Cellnet: TIC para a melhoria do sistema de saude em Angola.’ in Pedro Ferraz de Abreu (eds) Projects of e-Planning – the first step. CITIDEP press. Lisbon

Poster Urban walls or virtual bridges? International workshop of e-Planning: Citizens, cities and technology. April 23rd, 2013 FC-UL Lisbon

Conference CELLNET (ICT for health in cooperation). Presentation and DEMO interactive simulation. Jornadas e-Planning. November 17th, 2010. FLAD, Lisbon

OTHER PUBBLICATIONS

Mosca verso una nuova identitá. Convivenza tra simboli urbani del passato e presente. NIP Magazine. Pubblication planned for May 2014Detroit cittá Liminale. Impressioni sulla shrinking city. NIP Magazine. February 2014

Belfast, sedimentazione urbana. NIP May, 2014

Il riflesso di Venezia dell'amazzonia. La repubblica. February, 2010

FURTHER INFORMATIONS

My life experience is linked to different cultural backgrounds, as I had the fortune to study and live in different Countries. I am enthusiastic about technology, but I keep always a critical view. I have been involved in different ways of producing information, such us writing scientific texts, writing articles for Italian newspapers and magazines