Costanza Fusi, M.A.
PhD-Student
Costanza Fusi, M.A.
Marstallstraße 6, Raum 320
69117 Heidelberg
Telefon +39-348-9252242
costanza.fusi1@studenti.iulm.it
About
Costanza Fusi is a PhD student at IULM University’s Doctoral Programme of Visual & Media Studies in Milano; for the academic year 23/24 she is an international visiting PhD at the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage.
She studied Archaeology at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (IT) and Art, Valorization Strategies and Market at IULM University in Milan (IT), during which she spent a semester at the University of Groningen (NL). For her MA (2022) she discussed a thesis on participatory museography approaches in ethnography museums, which allowed her to research at the Museums of World Culture of Gothenburg and Stockholm (SE) and at the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome, (IT). In 2018-19 She carried on a one-year internship as assistant curator for the Art, Reliques and Photo department of PIM – Petöfi Literary Museum in Budapest (HU).
Her research interests mainly concern cultural anthropology, post-colonial studies and dynamics, material culture studies, and the analysis of past and present museums’ curatorial practices, from a museographic and exhibition design perspective.
Research and Current Projects
Research Focus
- Museum Studies
- Critical Heritage Studies
- Visitors' Perceptions
- Exhibition Design
Current Project
Her doctoral thesis focuses on exploring innovative strategies related to the display of culturally sensitive and numinous indigenous heritage in European ethnography museums and on the investigation of public perceptions in these problematic exhibition spaces.
Since the start of 2022 she has been actively involved in IULM University's research group PRM: Project Research Museums. During the last academic year, together with the other researchers of the group, she has worked on the project "I popoli indigeni del centro e sud America. Tra storia, memoria, attivismo, musei e arte". At the moment she is working on the communication and musealization of a collaborative archaeology project in Chiaramonte Gulfi, Sicily (IT).