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Marco Gissara

  • Teaching Associate

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Marco Gissara is an engineer engaged in both professional practice and academic research. He earned a Ph.D. in urban studies at the Sapienza University of Rome.

His main interests are focused on urban contexts, in both their physical and social features: reuse and regeneration, urban planning and policies, public participation, and phenomena related to urban social movements.

A freelance engineer since 2013, he established Restudio in 2022, working on the renovation of existing buildings and public spaces.

He collaborates with Laboratorio di Studi Urbani “Territori dell’abitare” (LABSU) and works as a teaching associate at Cornell University in Rome.

A bearded man's head and shoulders
  • picture of a colored square from above
  • school park with red structures, trees and pathways
  • urban park pathway between trees and a stone wall

Largo Mengaroni in Rome (public space renovation, 2021–23).

Melissa Bassi school in Rome (external spaces renovation, 2020–22).

Urban cycle-pedestrian route in Terni (public space renovation, with Politask Engineering Srl, 2018–21).

Publications

  • Ruoli fuori dagli schemi per affrontare la complessità. La lezione del progetto Me.Mo.

    Gissara M., Palese M., Palese P, Vallo M. In Montillo F. Memorie in movimento a Tor Bella Monaca. Un approccio per ricercare il senso dei luoghi, Edifir Edizioni, Firenze, 2023.

  • Linee guida per la manutenzione e il recupero del patrimonio edilizio

    Gissara M., Diana L. In Cellamare C., Montillo F. (ed.), Abitare Tor Bella Monaca. Ripensare la periferia, 2020.

  • La casa, i luoghi e i piani. L'eredità del I PEEP

    Diana L., Gissara M. In Cellamare C., Montillo F. (ed.), Abitare Tor Bella Monaca. Ripensare la periferia, 2020.

  • Intorno al lago. La riappropriazione popolare dell'area dell'ex Snia Viscosa a Roma

    Gissara M. In Tracce Urbane, the Italian Journal of Urban Studies, n. 4, pp. 218–236, Rivista telematica scientifica della Sapienza Università di Roma, 2018.

  • Città Immaginate. Riuso, sperimentazioni e nuove forme dell'abitare

    Percoco M., Rosmini E., Gissara M. (ed.), Manifestolibri, Roma, 2018.

Classes

  • Rome Workshop

    CRP 4160

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