Verena Lenna

She has a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from Università IUAV di Venezia and KU Leuven. She is interested in how rights shape the city and its governance as an instituting process. She currently investigates emerging forms of welfare at the crossroads of social and ecological justice. Since 2011, as an activist, designer and researcher, she has been building transversal expertise on the topic of commoning and urban commons by contributing to various projects and initiatives, such as the foundation of Commons Josaphat in Brussels (2012-2017); gE.CO, a European project for the generativity of urban commons (2019-2022); a regional study aiming at designing policies and regulations to support commons in the Brussels Capital Region (2022-2023). She researched socio-spatial dynamics of inclusion and individual and collective emancipation through participatory action research and art and cultural projects in Rome, Venice, Milan, Brussels, New York and Athens.