Boniotti Cristina

Cristina Boniotti is a researcher of Architectural Conservation at the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering of Politecnico di Milano.
She holds a master’s degree in Architecture, and a specialization diploma in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, both with honors at Politecnico di Milano.
She also earned a PhD with honors in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering from Politecnico di Milano on the topic of conservation and management of public built cultural heritage.
In addition, she has been a short-term scholar at the University of Central Florida and the MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as won a research scholarship at the University of Brescia.
She took part in national and international research projects, among which the European project “CHANGES - Changes in cultural heritage activities: new goals and benefits for economy and society”, supported by the JPI Heritage Plus program and jointly developed by Politecnico di Milano, KU Leuven, Uppsala University, and TU Delft.
She has been presenting the outcomes of her research at international conferences and publishing papers on heritage conservation and valorization since 2016.

Career
October 2024 _ Tenured Researcher (RTT), Politecnico di Milano.

April 2024 _ Specialization diploma in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, Politecnico di Milano (with honors). Thesis: “Villa Molinari Rasini Medolago Attanasio in Limbiate: stages preliminary to executive design”; supervisor: Prof. Stefano Della Torre.

October 2021 _ Untenured Researcher (RTDA Junior), Politecnico di Milano.

December 2018 _ Postdoctoral research fellow, Politecnico di Milano and University of Brescia.

September 2018 _ PhD in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (with honors). Thesis: “Conservation and management of built cultural heritage: the case of public complex properties”; supervisor: Prof. Stefano Della Torre; co-supervisor: Prof. Caroline Cheong, University of Central Florida.

April 2013 _ Master’s degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (with honors). Thesis: “The architecture of the sea. History, cataloguing, conservation, and valorization of Colonie Marine in Emilia Romagna as an instance of cultural and design heritage”; supervisors: Prof. Emilio Faroldi and Prof. Fulvio Irace.

February 2010 _ Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Science, Politecnico di Milano. Thesis: “Holiday resorts on Lake Garda in the Nineteenth Century and the Grand Hotel Gardone Riviera”; supervisor: Prof. Maria Enrica Marica Forni.

Research
Cristina Boniotti performs research on conservation and valorization of built cultural heritage.
Her research focuses on cultural heritage management, public-private partnership (P3), community involvement through public-private-people partnership (P4), and innovative funding opportunities.
Besides, she examines the role of cultural heritage as a driver of economic growth and community resilience, especially so in local inland areas.

Selected Publications

1. Boniotti C., Pimpinella A. (2025), Heritage and Mobile Radio: A Data-Driven Approach to Address Cultural Heritage Valorization. In Fossa G., Ryan B. D., Ignaccolo C. (eds.), Small-Town Renaissance. Bridging Technology, Heritage and Planning in Shrinking Italy, Research for Development, Cham, Springer, pp. 29-58. DOI
2. Boniotti C. (2023), Lo studio di fattibilità per il riuso e la gestione del patrimonio architettonico pubblico: Castel Masegra a Sondrio. In Della Torre S. (ed.), Restauro dell’architettura. Per un progetto di qualità. Coordinamento di Stefano Della Torre e Valentina Russo. Sezione 2. Il concetto di qualità e il tema della programmazione, Roma, Edizioni Quasar, pp. 358-364.
3. Boniotti C. (2023 – Article publication date: 29 April 2021; Issue publication date: 12 January 2023), The public-private-people partnership (P4) for cultural heritage management purposes, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 13, n. 1, pp. 1-14. DOI
4. Boniotti C., Cerisola S. (2022), Valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale: il ruolo del capitale territoriale – Valorization of cultural heritage: the role of territorial capital, Intrecci. International Journal of Architectural Conservation and Restoration, n. 2, pp. 25-39.
5. Boniotti C. (2021), Wide-Area Heritage Projects in Lombardy: From a Mono-Sector to a Multi-Sector Approach, Heritage, vol. 4, n. 4, pp. 4304-4317. DOI
6. Lombardini N., Boniotti C., Petrov Z., Genova B. (2020), Il Mausoleo di Dimitrov a Sofia: a presence of an absence fra storia e progetto, 'Ananke, n. 90, maggio 2020, pp. 66-72.
7. Scala B., Boniotti C. (2020), Il patrimonio architettonico montano rurale della Valle Trompia. Linee guida alla conoscenza e alla conservazione, Firenze, Nardini Editore.
8. Boniotti C. (2018), Public private partnership and change management for built cultural heritage. In Van Balen K., Vandesande A. (eds.), Innovative Built Heritage Models, Reflections on Cultural Heritage Theories and Practice (3), London, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 45-51. DOI
9. Moioli R., Boniotti C., Konsta A., Pili A. (2018), Complex properties management: Preventive and planned conservation applied to the Royal Villa and Park in Monza, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 8, n. 2, Special Issue: Preventive and planned conservation approaches for built heritage management, pp. 130-144. DOI
10. Boniotti C. (2017), History, cataloguing and valorization of Colonie Marine in Emilia Romagna as a public modern heritage. In Szmygin B., Burke S. (eds.), Modern heritage – identifying, assessing and managing its protection and conservation, Heritage for future 1(4), pp. 47-57.

Community Service
Member of the Board of the PhD in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.