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independent research agency
Corso San Gottardo 3, 20136 Milan, Italy
T 39 347 771 5577
M [email protected]
W www.independentresearchagency.com
what IS IT?
what does it do?
The Independent Research Agency is a research
organisation specialising in social research
and urban interventions. It was born to meet the
need for public and private institutions to be able
to know more about the social dynamics of
the areas where they are working, with the overall
objective of stimulating interventions and political
strategies which can be adapted to the needs
of a specific area and social group, and the making
of the results of research available to a wider public
beyond that of specialists in the field.
The agency carries out investigations, projects
and research into social groups, physical places,
themes and contemporary social actors. It creates
strategies for intervention for public administrators and bodies and private organisations and
identifies activities which can be carried out
in order to provide answers to specific problems.
Its methodological approach is based on a preliminary and wide-ranging analysis of the context
of the research and successive work in the field
through observation and interviews. This type
of analysis privileges the direct participation
of actors in the different phases of all research
projects. The agency can deal with al levels
of research projects, from set-up to the collection
of documents, interviews and analysis of
data right up to the development of on-field work
and the communication of results through
reports, conferences, volumes and internet sites.
This includes multi-media documentation (audio,
photo, video) of research activities.
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WHO DO WE WORK WITH?
who are we?
The agency works with public institutions, third
sector organisations and private institutions
offering assistance through research into social
change and urban transformation, the planning
and evaluation of services, the development
of organisational skills and the supervision
of activities and resources.
Salvatore Porcaro completed his research degree
in urban planning at the Doctoral School of the
IUAV in Venice. From 2007 to 2011 he was
under contract as a professor in Urban Planning
at the Politecnico di Milano and has followed
research projects at the multiplicity.lab research
laboratory. Recently he has managed an investigation into social and residential strategies
in the city of Padua, a study for the preservation
and conservation of an agricultural area in Naples
and has launched a social observatory on the
African community living in Castel Volturno.
Luca Rossomando has worked as an educator
in a series of neighbourhoods in Naples and
in state schools in Marseilles and Barcelona.
His books include La Voragine. Una cronaca dalla
periferia di Napoli. Editori Riuniti, 2002 and
Vedi Napoli. Ritratti di città con bambini. Spartaco edizioni, 2006. He edited the volume Napoli
a piena voce. Autoritratti metropolitani. Bruno
Mondadori, 2012. He writes for various daily
papers and periodicals.
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