Faces and the City

Federico Bellentani is a project manager and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin, working on the ERC-PoC project EUFACETS (EU Face Advanced Communication for Elders Treasuring in Society). He was also a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project FACETS (Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies) from 2021 to 2023. He holds a PhD from Cardiff University (2017), an MA in Semiotics from the University of Bologna (2013) and was a visiting researcher at the University of Tartu.He is Director of Marketing and Communication at Dinova, an AI-driven company integrating semiotics and storytelling. He was named among Forbes Italia’s Top 100 Marketing Managers (2025) and received the Google Cloud Star for Marketing and Communication in 2022 and 2024.

• 1. Introduction Part 12. Faces and facial presence in urban space: A literature review3. A semiotic and cultural-geographical framework for the study of facial presence in the urban space4. A typology of facial presence of the cityPart 25. Faces on the facades of Bologna, Italy: A semiotic inquiry into urban inscriptions6. Sculpted faces: Face inscription in monuments and memorials7. Facial practices: Faces in institutional and vernacular memorial practices8. Digital Faces: The evolution of faces in digital memorial practices9. Conclusions: Urban semiotics face to faceIndex