Francesco Campagnari is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales with the Supralocal project.

A graduate of Architectural Engineering from the Università di Trento, he received his PhD in Regional planning and public policy from the Università Iuav di Venezia. He was a research fellow at the same University as part of a collaboration with the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Mic and for the EUREKA project.

His research focuses on the analysis of urban processes of experience and treatment of public problems, with particular attention to grammars of problematisation and publicisation and to the construction, diffusion and innovation of intervention models. His recent research pays particular attention to the role of direct civic actions in the treatment of problematic situations, exploring their emergence, institutionalization, and supra-local relations. He is interested in the use of pragmatist philosophy and ethnography in planning research. He has published on such topics in journals such as Planning Theory and Practice and recently edited a monographic issue of Tracce Urbane.

In 2024, he will publish the book “The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives” (Routledge). He is qualified in France as a Maître de conférences in the field of Aménagement de l'espace, urbanisme.