Cristina Cerulli

Professor or Architecture in the School of Built Environment, University of Reading

Cristina Cerulli works across practice and academia around supporting collective endeavours in the city and countering inequality through practices of care, through actively proposing and implementing alternatives.
She is a founding director of research-led social enterprise design and architecture practice Studio Polpo, set up to work towards social, economic and environmental justice, and a Professor of Architecture in the School of Built Environment at the University of Reading.
Cristina has a particular interest in Ethical Practice, Collective Production of the Built Environment, Social Innovation and Community-Led Housing. Her current and recent work focuses on notions of care in the city, within community-led projects and in the context of High Streets, including non-speculative housing development, community ownership of heritage assets and regenerative approaches to retrofitting our built environment.