Giulia Buffoli

Holding a PhD in geography and architecture, Giulia Buffoli is a scholar of urban studies whose work bridges spatial design and the social sciences. Her research examines migration dynamics and spaces of transit—such as camps and informal settlements—in contexts including Calais, Lesbos, Lampedusa, and Amman, exploring how these spaces relate to the contemporary city and reshape its temporalities and morphologies. She has taught in various schools of architecture and urbanism in France, including the Institut d’Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine (Université Grenoble Alpes), ENSA Grenoble, and Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, developing an interdisciplinary approach linking design, geography, and the humanities. As a postdoctoral researcher at Aix-Marseille University (TELEMMe), she is part of the Liminal Waterways Countercultures project, which investigates practices and imaginaries of water through an interdisciplinary lens. Her research focuses on the intersections between human mobility, urban transformation, and ritual forms related to water, engaging with questions of ecology, mobility, and the cultural dimensions of inhabiting.