Università Iuav di Venezia, Leiden University
PCF Thematic Groups: Small Ports Big Challenges, Everyday Infrastructures
Silvia Sivo is a PhD researcher Urban and Regional Planning and Policies at Università Iuav di Venezia, and guest researcher at the Leiden University, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. Her research focuses on understanding long-term relationships between port cities and their territories through a water-based perspective, investigating how (conflictual) interaction patterns between institutional and local actors in decision-making processes with regard to port infrastructures shape the port city agenda, water values and maritime culture of coastal and port cities, collaborative planning and governance, commons-oriented paradigm shift for land-sea interaction areas acknowledgement and management.
Trained as engineer and architect, she graduated at the Polytechnic University of Bari and obtained a second-level master's degree in Sustainable Planning and Design of Port Areas at the Federico II University of Naples. Her background bridges research and practice, as she has experiences as a consultant for Italian public administrations in the fields of strategic planning (metropolitan areas, port and regional small port networks), urban regeneration and social innovation, she collaborated in several educational programmes and community engagement initiatives as independent researcher, and she is committed as activist in the field of emerging commons. She is part of the editorial staff of the Seascape journal.
Email address:
ssivo@iuav.it
s.sivo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Last publications:
Chouairi, A. ., & Sivo, S. (2021). Landscape Perspectives for the Port-City Relationship. Reporting from the Workshops of Taranto, Brindisi and Bari. European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 4(2), 164–177. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/13835
Sivo S., Stile balneare. Turismo abilitante per un approccio attivo e inclusivo al patrimonio costiero, selectioned abstract for the research atelier of the I National Conference on Coastal Landscapes Coste in movimento, promoted by the Observatory Coastal Landscapes, 2021 [Abstract]
https://www.paesaggicostieri.org/_files ugd/4709b6_da78b1415ca1422387149458fc9e1234.pdf
Di Ruocco I., Polverino S., Regalbuto S., Sivo S., A sustainable strategy for the port area of San Giovanni a Teduccio, in TRIA vol. 11 n. 1, e-ISSN 2281-4574 [Scientific article]
http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/tria/article/view/5823
