Chiara Belingardi, Ph.D., is a researcher in urban planning and expert on Cities for all bodies and all people. She is currently a research fellow at the ISTC-CNR’s City of Girls and Children Laboratory. She is a lecturer and organizer of the Master’s program “Città di Genere. Metodi e tecniche di pianificazione e progettazione urbana e territoriale” now in its third edition. She is the author with Zaida Muxì and Flavia Pesce of the Linee Guida per Progetti inclusivi dal Punto di vista di Genere. Her publications include “Comunanze urbane. Autogestione e cura dei luoghi” (FUP, 2015) and “La libertà è una passeggiata. Donne e spazi urbani tra violenza strutturale e autodeterminazione” with F. Castelli and S. Olcuire (edited, Iaph Italia, 2019). She co-edited with Daniela Poli the two issues “Genere e progetto dei luoghi” and “Femminismi e cura dei mondi di vita” of Scienze del Territorio (2023).

Maria Silvia D’Avolio is a postdoctoral researcher who has followed an interdisciplinary educational and professional path in the fields of architecture, sociology and gender studies. She holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Florence (Italy) and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Sussex (UK). She has worked as a researcher at various international universities, including the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, King’s College London and the University of Portsmouth. Her research approach focuses on analysing inequalities in different contexts from an intersectional transfeminist perspective. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Swiss Institute in Rome, where she is working on a project exploring the role of socialist and feminist women architects in the political and architectural context of Rome between the 1960s and 1980s.

Casa delle donne Lucha y Siesta is an anti-violence center, a home for women and minors on pathways out of violence, a cultural hub for preventing and combating gender-based violence in all its forms, a place for political elaboration, awareness-raising, training, and promotion of pathways to autonomy and self-determination. The Home is a material and symbolic place of struggle for the rights of women and subjectivities oppressed by patriarchy; it is a space of relationship, sisterhood and desire, a welcoming and safe environment in which to network, exchange knowledge, elaborate and experiment with feminist and transfeminist practices.

QuestaèRoma is a cultural and sports association founded in 2013 and composed of young people from different countries and sociocultural backgrounds. Romans, new romans and romans by choice who have decided to build their future in this city. QuestaèRoma wants to be an example of the good practices of citizenship established by the Italian Constitution in the wording of Article 3. Artists, writers, actors, journalists, activists, workers and students, born and/or raised in the Capital of Italy by foreign parents have come together to initiate to a movement that includes everyone regardless of origins, gender, religious beliefs, and economic and social conditions.

Quarticciolo Ribelle, from the borough to the borough. The Quarticciolo Ribelle committee operates in the Roman neighborhood of Quarticciolo, promoting cultural, social and political initiatives. The main objective of the committee is to create spaces of aggregation and active participation for youth and residents of the neighborhood, fostering dialogue and solidarity. Through events, workshops, and training activities, Quarticciolo Ribelle strives to combat social inequalities and enhance participation in the neighborhood by supporting pathways to autonomy and self-determination.