Paolo Patelli is an architect and a researcher. Through his practice and collaborative inquiries, he engages critically and by design with space, society and technology, which includes media as much as laws and institutions. As of 2017, he is based at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht; he teaches at the New School's Parsons Paris; he collaborates with the Programme d'Experimentation en Arts et Politique at Sciences Po. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano in 2015.