Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi (b. 1994) works at the intersection of architecture, communication, and urban sociological studies, exploring the intricate relationships between space and society.

Her approach is deliberately interdisciplinary — what she calls tessellated — a method that weaves together different fields to generate layered and critical insights into the urban condition.

Rather than focusing solely on the aesthetics or technicalities of spatial design, she investigates how built environments embody cultural, political, and ecological narratives. She is interested in how space acts — as an agent, as a mirror, as a system — and how human behaviours, inequalities, and desires become inscribed in its form.

In an age of accelerating crisis — climate collapse, democratic erosion, deepening social disparities — her work calls for cities to be reimagined as dynamic, relational, and inclusive ecosystems. It rests on the belief that space is never neutral: it encodes power, memory, and possibility.

As a theorist of Intersectional Urbanism and Crip Space, she develops conceptual frameworks to read the urban fabric through the lenses of justice, care, and embodiment — revealing how bodies and ecologies are intertwined within spatial systems of privilege and exclusion.

She collaborates with architects, urbanists, researchers, and institutions to foster new ways of reading, designing, and communicating the city. For her, communication is not an accessory to architecture but an architectural act in itself — a way to build meaning, narrate complexity, and provoke transformation.

Through her practice, she aims to open questions rather than close them:
What does it mean to belong to a space? Who is included in the idea of the city? How can we shape environments that care, resist, and adapt?

In short, she is interested in how cities speak — and in how we can learn to listen better.