Emiliano Gandolfi is an architect and independent curator with specific interest in the relations between architecture, art and urbanism. He is co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies, cooperative for socio-spatial development, and an advisor for the Curry Stone Design Prize. As a member of iStrike Foundation he is been working on urban development projects in Douala, Cameroon, involving artists and designers to work with local communities. Gandolfi was co-curator of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition – Biennale di Venezia, and before this role, he was curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam, working on exhibitions such as Spectacular City and Newer Orleans. As part of the 2007 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam he curated A Better World, an exhibition and series of public events on architecture and activism. Jointly to his contribution to Biennale in Venice, Gandolfi was the initiator of REbiennale, a project with the aim of recycling the leftover materials from the Biennale into public facilities, as community gardens, spaces for local aggregation and public events.

Over the past years he has been involved in a wide range of projects, exhibitions and conferences that deal with methodologies and interventions for urban transformation, on both theoretical and practical level.

He has lectured and organized conferences in many institutions worldwide; he is currently guest teacher at the National University of the Arts in Taiwan and course coordinator at TU Delft. As a writer and critic he has contributed to several magazines, such as "Volume" (Amsterdam), "Artforum" (New York) and "L'espresso" (Rome). He was the editor of Spectacular City (NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2006) and contributor to various other publications.