Chiara Mariotti
Visiting Researcher
Chiara Mariotti is an Assistant Professor in Architectural Conservation at the Department of Construction, Civil Engineering, and Architecture, Università Politecnica delle Marche (UnivPM). She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture (2011) and a PhD in Architecture (2017) from the University of Bologna (UniBO). Since 2017, she has been teaching Restoration in the Architecture degree course at UniBO, and since 2019, in the Building Engineering and Architecture degree course at UnivPM. She serves on the executive board of the Italian Society for the Restoration of Architecture (SIRA) and the scientific board of the Italian Institute for Castles (IIC). Additionally, she is on the editorial boards of the international journals Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage and International Journal of Architectural Conservation and Restoration - Intrecci. Chiara Mariotti is a full member of Do.co.mo.mo Italia, AISU International, and EFFORTS Europe. She is also an active researcher in the interdisciplinary Lab on Digital Cultural Heritage, and a representative of the Interdepartmental Research Centre for Landscape Studies, both established at UnivPM. One of her primary research areas focuses on Dissonant Heritage, examining the discipline’s approach to complex and controversial legacies shaped by differing community perceptions and interpretations of the past. This includes the study of fortified heritage as a symbol of power and memory of war (e.g., World War II bunkers), Holocaust-related sites (such as the former Fossoli Camp), and regime architecture (e.g., Casa del Fascio and Casa del Mutilato). She has contributed to value-oriented strategies for heritage conservation and communication, preventive and planned conservation, risk management, and community engagement in heritage-making processes. She has participated as an expert in EU-funded Blended Intensive Programmes - Erasmus+ BIP on dissonant heritage in Lisbon (Plan Barron, 2022), Italy (Caserma Druso, 2023), as well as in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Tito's bunkers, 2024).
