I am Valentina Piliego (1992), PhD candidate in the 41st cycle of IDAUP at the University of Ferrara.

I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Ferrara (2017), where I graduated with the thesis As a Landscape: strategies and scenarios for the re-signification of waste infrastructures in the territory of Ferrara, and a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona (2019).

My work explores public space design and urban strategy through territorial and cartographic research, with a particular focus on geographic information systems (GIS). I adopt a multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach, considering territorial analysis as a way to identify spatial dynamics, reveal hidden relationships, and better understand local needs.

Alongside my academic research, I co-founded with Melanie Theodosopoulou and Evanthia Beristianou corema estudi, a landscape architecture studio.

I see professional practice and research as deeply interconnected: practice grounds research in real contexts, constraints, and collective processes, while research provides critical tools to question, inform, and enrich design practice. For me, this exchange between theory and practice is essential to producing meaningful and grounded work.