Nine portraits. Three countries. One question: How do we do university differently?


Detail of a trezzota, a typical wooden boat from Acitrezza
Nic Dickson's desk: examples of publications and visual inquiry works
Detail of a fence with drawings by local artists on the theme "Housing matters", Haringey, London

Some transform markers into scientific instruments. Some build laboratories where disciplines contaminate each other. Some discover that reciprocity is learned through receiving.

Architects of impossible spaces. Weavers of decade-long relationships. Researchers who hold together communities and academia.
We searched for an academy that rarely appears in rankings. We found it in markets, school cafeterias, dilapidated buildings. In Italy, France, and the United Kingdom. Nine portraits of scholars who chose to do university differently.
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PLACES – A research project on transformative community engagement in universities  
University of Sassari | CNR-IRCrES | PRIN 2022
Texts
Andrea Vargiu, Stefania Frongia, Valentina Ghibellini, Andrea Orazio Spinello, Emanuela Reale, Valentina Carazzolo, Ugo Finardi

Photography
Valeria Brandano