Daniela Ciaffi

Daniela Ciaffi is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino's Interuniversity Department of Territorial Sciences, Planning and Policies (DIST), specializing in Urban Sociology and Common Goods Governance. She has been coordinating courses in Architecture, Society and Territory since 2019 and leads the La città va a scuola research line.

• Academic Appointments
  • Associate Professor (L.240)
  • Member of Master's School and Continuing Education
• Contact
  • daniela.ciaffi@polito.it
  • +39 0110907486

Research Expertise spans participatory democracy, social housing, horizontal subsidiarity, and institutional sustainability. Her work focuses on:

• Collaborative urban governance
• Cultural heritage conservation
• Community-led sustainability initiatives
• Urban sociology of education

Key Projects:

• Bridging Italy-Brazil commons regulations (2024-2027)
• School plaza experiments (2020-2024)
• Oltreponte urban regeneration (2021-2022)

As PhD supervisor for Corrado Scudellaro (38th cycle), she guides research on collaborative governance of earthen heritage cities.

Her scientific classification includes:

• ERC Sector SH2_9 (Urban studies)
• SDG 11 (Sustainable cities)
• GSPS-08/B Sociology of Environment