Daniele Ietri is full professor of Geography.

His research is mainly focused on the study of regional competitiveness and the elaboration of local development policies, with a focus on inner/internal and peripheral areas. He also conducted several research projects on the issues of urban competitiveness, authoring or co-authoring papers and books with Italian and international publishers such as Routledge, Edward Elgar, Rubbettino, Mimesis.

Daniele also works on the use of documentary films as a tool for the on-the-field research and mean of dissemination. In 2013 he founded Associazione La Fournaise (http://www.lafournaise.it), a group of researchers and filmmakers that has been producing documentary films screened in festivals, theatres and events in Italy and abroad. The feature length movies produced by the group were screened in more than 90 film festivals, awarded more by more than 20 times and screened in hundreds of theatres, associations, schools, formal and informal contexts in Italy and abroad. In the projects Daniele was in charge for the areas of development, production and sound recording.

He is member of the Council of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, a network of academics and professionals specialised in the research on urban competitiveness at the international level.

He ideated and coordinates, with Eleonora Mastropietro, “Studi sul Qui” (http://www.studisulqui.it), a research project on the study and representation of the contemporary in “inner” and “peripheral” areas and - at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen - he is responsible of the deep_map_lab, a laboratory intended to produce deep maps of territories and supporting the elaboration of policies (http://deepmap.projects.unibz.it).