Linda Di Pietro (Italy)

Former visiting fellow at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she teaches contemporary cultural design at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and curatorship of the performing arts at the University of Pavia. She is a member of the cultural advisory board of the British Council Italia and co-founder of Lo Stato Luoghi, the Italian network of culture-based urban regeneration. She has been curating several projects dedicated to the connection between arts, cultural and urban regeneration.

From 2007 to 2019 with Indisciplinarte, she coordinated the programme and services of CAOS, a cultural centre born in Terni from the reconversion of the Opificio Siri, directed the Terni international festival of contemporary creation and co-founded the Umbrian residency centre CURA. In 2018-19 she was cultural manager of the Manifattura Tabacchi project in Cagliari.