EXTERNAL MEMBERS

emanuele arielli

Emanuele Arielli is an Associate Professor of Aesthetics at IUAV University of Venice. He has teaching and research experience at the Technical University of Berlin, IULM University Milan, G. D'Annunzio University Pescara, Ca' Foscari Venice. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at FU Berlin. His research spans aesthetics, cognitive science, epistemology, and pragmatics. His recent work explores the intersection of aesthetics and digital technology, examining AI's impact on art and aesthetic theory.

sofia boz

Sofia Boz is PhD candidate in Pedagogical, Educational and Instructional Sciences at University of Padua. Her research focuses on the possibilities of de-structuring the traditional school curriculum by re-evaluating the beneficial effects of jazz's own concept of improvisation, with a view to creative, inclusive, dialogic and explorative education.

Rita maria fabris

Rita Maria Fabris is researcher in Discipline dello Spettacolo at the University of Bologna. Her research deals with the history of theatrical dance between the 18th and the 19th century in Italy and Denmark with analyses of cultural politics, aesthetics and artistic reception. With regards of contemporaneity, she deals with performative arts of the community, at the intersection of theoretical research, performative didactics and field projectuality, with particular attention to the processes of impact evaluation. Currently she conducts research on the origins of direction in ballet production and the theatrical production of August Bournonville between Copenaghen and Stockholm. She is danzaeducatrice®, president of the Associazione Filieradarte aps of Turin and the Associazione Nazionale DES - Danza Educazione Società (University of Bologna),

serena feloj

Serena Feloj is Associate Professor in Aesthetics at the University of Pavia. She has been visiting scholar at Harvard University and at the Universities of Heidelberg, Marburg (DAAD fellowship), Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, and visiting professor at the University of Halle. Her main interests are in Kantian philosophy, German classical aesthetics and analytic aesthetics.

Lisa Giombini

Lisa Giombini is Research Fellow in Aesthetics at Roma Tre University (Italy), Department of Philosophy. She is a member of various philosophical associations, including the Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE), the European Society of Aesthetics (ESA) and the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA); she is currently the Secretary General of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA). Besides long-term interest in the philosophy of music, Lisa's current research focuses on the philosophy of art conservation, the ethics of cultural heritage and environmental aesthetics.

mariagrazia portera

Mariagrazia Portera is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Florence. Her research spans two main areas: the history of aesthetics (with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly in German thought and in British aesthetics) and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary aesthetic issues, including evolutionary aesthetics, cognitive aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her interests include the role of aesthetics in biodiversity conservation strategies, the evolutionary origins of human aesthetic behavior, and, more recently, the developmet of a human aesthetic model rooted in the concept of habit. Some of her major publications are La bellezza è un'abitudine. Come si sviluppa l'estetico (Carocci 2020), L'evoluzione della bellezza. Estetica e biologia da Darwin al dibattito contemporaneo (Mimesis 2015), Poesia vivente. Una lettura di Hölderlin (Aesthetica 2010). Mariagrazia has also been involved in national and international research projects on topics such as aesthetic habits, aesthetic of biodiversity, the human-environment relationship, and the aesthetics of biological conservation.

monica saccomandi

Monica Saccomandi is Professor and coordinator at the School of Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin with degrees in Public Art and Spaces and Practices of Contemporary Art. She holds a degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and a degree in Discipline of Arts from the D.A.M.S. - Art section of the University of Bologna. Alongside her teaching activities, she has carried out coordination roles in areas ranging from artistic mediation to social policies in public space with particular attention to relational artistic practices. Some of her project include: "Arte in Transito" (project of urban regeneration, in via Sacchi Torino, a production by the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti and Politecnico di Torino DAD, 2023-2024), "The Game of the Goose - The Art which Trains the Mind" (in cooperation with Social Community Theatre of Turin, 2020), "ARCHI-PLA - From Parish Maps to Territorial Brands" (promoted by the Piedmont Region, Parco Peccei, Barriera di Milano District, Turin, 2009-2013), and "Mapping and Making Social Space Barriera" (redevelopment of two areas of the Barriera di Milano district, Turin, financed by Compagnia di SanPaolo).

amalia salvestrini

Amalia Salvestrini (Milan 1991) is Assegnista di Ricerca in Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan, where she carries out the project «Harmonia et affectus. Estetica francescana, pittura giottesca e umanisti» (HarmoPicta). After a Diploma Accademico di Secondo Livello in Viola (ConsMi) and a Master in Philosophical Sciences (UNIMI), she obtained the PhD in co-tutorship between FINO Consortium and EPHE (Paris) and she has been the beneficiary of a grand awarded by IISF (Naples). Among her publications, the monograph Bellezza retorica. Un percorso tematico nel pensiero di Nicola di Autrécourt (Mimesis 2021) and L'artefice nel pensiero francescano (Milano University Press 2023). Her research, besides being oriented to the study of premodern aesthetics, address from a phenomenological viewpoint topics such as image, poïesis, the parallel of arts, music and rhetorics, and, more recently, space and music between Reinassance, Modernity and contemporaneity.

Luisa sampugnaro

Luisa Sampugnaro (PhD in Humanities) is an independent researcher. In 2018 she was a visiting student at CEHTA/EHESS in Paris. She collaborates with the University of Turin and is a member of the Italian Society of Aesthetics (SIE). Her research interests include aesthetic reception theories, philosophy of painting and philosophy of history. Currently her work focuses on the various rhetorics of the "end" qualifying the transition Modernism/Postmodernism, both in the theoretical discourse about the arts and in the structure of artistic poiesis.

Gregorio tenti

Gregorio Tenti is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He is the author of Estetica e morfologia in Gilbert Simondon (Mimesis 2020) and L'estetica di Schleiermacher (ETS 2023); and the co-author, with Giuseppe Guastamacchia, of A Critical History of Psychophysics in 19th Century Germany (De Gruyter, under contract). He is also the co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon (Edinburgh University Press 2025). His current project investigates how the eco-politics of extinction intertwines with writing and language. His research interests include the history of German aesthetics, 20th-century French philosophy and environmental humanities.

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