PROJECTS • One, No One And One Hundred Thousand, transformation of a single family house into a collective dwelling (2023/ongoing, Padova, Italy) • Casetta, family home (2023/ongoing, Tuscany, Italy) • Piazza Mercato, competition for a new market square (2025, Montegrotto, Italy), with PANORAMA • C13H20N2O2, medical clinic (2022, Padova, Italy).

RESEARCH • Making Home: Domestic Rituals and Forms of Dwelling at the Turn of the 21st Century, Doctoral Thesis (2022/2025, IUAV) • Celebrations: Towards an Anthropological Study of Urban Forms, Research Project (2025/ongoing).

PUBLICATIONS • villardjournal 04.25/Negotiate, edited together with Anastasiia Gerasimova and Hannah Skapska (LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2025) • Electric Dreams: Rethinking wiring diagrams and their affordances, Critic|all (2025) • Life at Work: On Monastic Architecture, Rituals and the Construction of Domestic Space, TRANS magazin, Lore no. 44. Zurich (GTA Verlag, 2024) • Without Money and Without Price: Towards the Autonomy of Productive Practices, AARC 01 (IF Publications, 2021) • Promised Land: Housing from Commodification to Cooperation, with Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara, Leonard Ma and Tuomas Toivonen, Collectivity (e-flux, 2019).

TEACHING • Academic Guest of Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, teaching the Master Design Studio (Spring Semester 2026, ETH Zurich) • Teaching Assistant at ETH Zurich for the Chair of Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein (Coordinator of second year Design Studio, 2022/ongoing, ETH Zurich) • Guest critic at the Final Review of Prof. Andrea Tartaglia and Paolo Carpi Master Studio Live at Paestum (Fall Semester 2023, PoliMi) • Guest critic at the Final Review of Prof. An Fonteyne for the Chair of Affective Architecture Bachelor and Master Studio (Spring Semester 2022, ETH Zurich) • Guest Lecturer at TU Delft for the Chair of Methods and Analysis (Fall Semester 2022, TU Delft) • Teaching assistant at TU Delft for the Chair Complex Projects, collaborating with OMA (Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Paul Cournet) for Manifesta 12 (2017/2018, TU Delft).

LECTURES • Electric Dreams: Rethinking wiring diagrams and their affordances, presented at the Critic|all, VI International Conference on Architecture Design & Criticism (Politecnico di Torino, 29-30 February 2026) • The Domesticated Woman: Discipline and community at the Casa delle Zitelle Gasparine in Padua, to be presented at EAHN 26, 9th Biennial Conference of the European Architectural History Network, at the Chair “Between Mental Health and Punishment. From the Convent to the Asylum” (Aarhus Universitet, 17-21 June 2026).

ABOUT • Mariapaola Michelotto is an architect, researcher and a PhD candidate at IUAV within the Villard de Honnecourt International Program in Architecture, Theory and Design. She studied at IUAV and TU Delft, where she graduated in 2018. Mariapaola gained professional experience working in Brussels and Rotterdam, and in 2021 she started her own practice in Milan. Since 2022 she has been involved in several academic activities at TU Delft, where she was a Guest Lecturer at the Chair of Methods and Analysis, and at ETH Zurich, where she is a teaching assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein. Her writings have been published in TRANS magazin, e-flux, and AARC 01.

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