Emiliano Gandolfi

Emiliano Gandolfi

Communal Agency and Cultural Strategy

Communal imagination, community development planning, socially engaged community art, urban pedagogies, public representation of citizen rights, endogenous alternative economies

Gandolfi (Italy / Rotterdam, Netherlands) is an urbanist and independent curator with a specific interest in cultural strategies as modes of urban development. He is co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies, a non-profit cooperative for socio-spatial development based in New York City and Rotterdam. The cooperative’s mission is to facilitate transformative urban intervention projects that coalesce theoretical and community approaches, around the desire for social, spatial, and environmental justice. He is also a founding member of Urban Front. Formerly Gandolfi was the Director of the Curry Stone Design Prize, one of the most recognized social impact design awards established to support design as a critical force to create social transformations and empower local communities. He was co-curator of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition – Biennale di Venezia, and before this role, he was curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. Gandolfi’s work has been published extensively and exhibited in international venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art of New York.