Federico Rudari, second year PhD student in Culture Studies and CECC member, is among the doctoral candidates selected for the Boston College Global Engagement Summer Visiting Doctoral Research Fellowship Program.

Over the summer, he will undertake two months at Boston College during which he will be able not only to focus on his doctoral research with the support of local academic staff but also to share the progresses achieved on his research with other fellows.

Rudari's project explores the role of embodied perception in the aesthetic experience of museums and exhibition spaces. In opposition to a reductionist approach in spatial and aesthetic cognition, his research tackles architecture and exhibition display through human observation and embodied perception as a complex and versatile context of interaction, mediation and sense-making. The time in Boston will be dedicated to expanding his research at the Institute of Liberal Arts, in particular through access to Boston College’s Bapst Library and its interdisciplinary catalogue covering the areas of Museum Studies, Art and Architecture. He will also develop some field research in the art institutions of the city, eventually expanding the selection of case studies addressed in his thesis.