Research profile

Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography and socio-technical transition studies. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of the planners and policy actors in planning with sustainable aims and though deliberative forms. She has led various empirical projects on cross-border governance in Italy, France and Switzerland (the Mont-Blanc area), the planning of sustainable transitions in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Waterdunen) and on the role of planners as catalysts of change in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). She has also engaged in research on gamification as a mediation strategy between citizens and policy managers in several EU cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Helsinki, Fundao, Palermo, Barcelona) for the transformation of urban mobility values. Her main research interests are on the practice and the theory of planning, urban governance and participation, deliberation and power, performative studies, sustainable transitions, interpretive methods of policy analysis and planning, critical approaches to smart citizenships.