Alessandra Ferrighi

Università Iuav di Venezia

ferrighi@iuav.it

Alessandra Ferrighi has coordinated the Visualizing Venice team since 2011 and, in 2012, curated the exhibition “Visualizing Venice, new technologies for urban history.” She is an adjunct professor of Urban Conservation at the Università Iuav di Venezia, where she has been a researcher since 1998 and has coordinated and/or cooperated on projects financed by Italy’s National Research Council (CNR), Consorzio Venezia Nuova (Ministry of Public Works), CORILA–Consortium for Co-ordination of Research Activities Concerning the Venice Lagoon System, and the Veneto Region. From 2000 to 2006, in particular, she coordinated the CORILA research on external claddings in Venice, which culminated in the online publication of data on all the city’s historical buildings (www.archidata.corila.it). She has written several articles, collected in broader publications, on the history of Padua’s Castello and Specola (observatory), on cataloguing, on databases, on the use of web-GIS for the external cladding of the Venetian buildings, and on the Visualizing Venice project.

Ferrighi graduated with honors from Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (now Università Iuav di Venezia) in Restoration. She received a Master in Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1999 and a PhD in Building and Environmental Conservation from the Università degli Studi di Genova in 2005.