Maria Paola Repellino graduated in Architecture in Politecnico di Torino and then obtained a PhD with a thesis on the dynamics of transformation of industrial heritage into creative places in Contemporary China. Since 2016 she is a post-doc researcher at the Polytechnic of Turin, where she coordinates a research in collaboration with Tsinghua University and EPFL dedicated to the Chinese new towns: within the program she curated the exhibition-seminar at the Beijing Design Week 2016 and the cycle of conferences on the new Chinese urbanization along the new Silk Road.
