Ilaria Tucci

I defended my PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies in June 2022 at Tampere University, with the thesis ‘Community-Based Theatre as Conflict Transformation in Lampedusa: Co-Producing Knowledge about Life at the Militarised Border of Europe’. My supervisors were Prof. Tarja Väyrynen (Tampere University) and Docent Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö (University of Jyväskylä); opponent at the public defense was Professor Annick Wibben (Swedish Defense University).

I work as a university lecturer, playwright, actress, theatre director, community facilitator, diversity agent, singer and songwriter. I use theatre as a nonviolent tool of peace education, conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

I am currently working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Bruno Lefort's project Homeward, funded by Kone Foundation (2022-2024). Homeward is a project that reframes how integration is understood and practiced through the use of co-creative practices. During the project, I co-organise and facilitate the workshops. I will be studying the process for research purposes, and in the final phase, I will work on the reflective analysis and the deliverables. 

https://societalsustainability.fi/homeward-exploring-co-creation-practices-towards-integration-2/

I am teacher for the course "Theatre for Peace" - period IV 

• Consultant for the Finnish Actors’ Union in delivering, sharing and analysing a survey about the current situation on ethnic and intercultural discrimination in the field (Spring - Summer 2022)

• Project designer, project manager and artistic co-director of EUPeGE – European Urban Performing Game Event, European application for the CREA - Creative Europe Call 2022, in cooperation with disakamula oy (Finland), Amigdala (Italy), Spazio T (Italy), PédéXumbo (Portugal), La ejecutora (Spain) and Kulturscio’k (France).

• Project owner, planner and artistic director of TUPeGE – Tampere Urban Performing Game Event – included in the final Bid-Book for Tampere European Capital of Culture 2026 (and included in the Plan B for the years 2022 – 2024).

• Invited expert and facilitator for the workshops A more culturally sustainable Finland organized by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (TAIKE) (June and October 2021).

• Facilitator for the Workshop Diversity, Inclusion and Community Children’s Arts and Culture for the staff members of the Children’s Cultural Centre ‘Pessi’ from the City of Vantaa (Finland), focused on audience development and community engagement (March 2021) 

• Facilitator and Diversity Agent for the Workshops for the Working Group for Cultural Policy, Immigrants and Promotion of Cultural Diversity organized by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (March and August 2020)

• Euromesco expert in Mobility and Migration, Society and Culture (since March 2020)

Arts-based practices, theatre, peace education, mediation and facilitation, DEI&A (diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility)

Doctoral Thesis

Community-Based Theatre as Conflict Transformation in Lampedusa: Co-Producing Knowledge about Life at the Militarised Border of Europe, Tampere University, TAPRI series 107, 2022 - https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/138973

Book Chapters 

· co-author with Karina Horsti “Performance of memory: testimonies of survival and rescue at Europe's border” in Schimanski J and Nyman J (Eds) Border Images, Border Narratives: The political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings, University Manchester Press, 2021- https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1fqvkr0

· “In response to migration policies and to the militarisation of territories: Activism in the community of Lampedusa” in Ojala Fulwood, M. (Ed) Migration and Multiethnic Communities: Mobile People from the Late Middle Ages to the Present., DE GRUYTER OLDENBOURG, 2018 - https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110528879/html

Articles

· co-author with Sari Hietamäki (2022) “Behind the screens: challenges and opportunities of participatory online peace education” in Journal of Peace Education, DOI: 10.1080/17400201.2022.2087610

· co-author with Tommaso Luzzati and Pietro Guarnieri (2022) “Information overload and environmental degradation: learning from HA Simon and W. Wenders” in Ecological Economics, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107593

Reports

· co-author with Leena Pihkala (2022) “Ethnic and cultural diversity in the field of acting in Finland” for the Finnish Actors’ Union (Näyttelijäliitto)