Raffaella Cavallaro

Raffaella Cavallaro is an architect and researcher in the Architectural, Urban and Interior Design Program (AUID) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where she has been researching and supporting teaching since 2019. She is, currently, a visiting researcher at ENSA Paris Malaquais in the Laboratoire Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire (LIAT). Her research, “Learning Spaces in Contemporary Metropolitan Cities. «Common Ground» design strategies to care and update Milan’s primary and secondary state schools”, which deals with architecture for education and explores models and strategies for innovative learning spaces, is part of the national PNRR program (within the European NEXTGeneration EU program) in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan’s Schools Technical Area. She is committed to defining strategies for updating school buildings, a topic she has explored in recent years through research collaborations, workshops, publications and design competitions. She has contributed to publications on architecture for education, such as “Una scuola condivisa: per una cultura della felicità “(2022) and “Inventing Schools. A School as Big as the World” (2023).