Marida Borrello obtained her master degree in architecture and urbanism in 2019 at La Sapienza di Roma. Her final thesis work, "The project in Dharavi over redevelopment", was issued from a collaboration with Urbz, a research and architecture centre in Mumbai, Jean-Marc Huygen at ENSA Marseille, Luca Reale and Daniela De Leo in Rome. Here, in the context of the biggest Asian spontaneous neighbourhood, classical and global methods of urban transformation are criticised in favour of a more sensitive and situated project-making policy.
Since 2016 she works in the constructive,architectural and urban fields and lives between Marseille and Italy (Rome, Venice), so she has a privileged position for a particular observatory posture over the two contexts.
In 2020 she works with Yes We Camp, one of the first associations to develop a different kind of urban transformation for urban friches, under the transitory urbanism and the so-called tiers lieux.
In 2021 she is co-founder, with five more colleagues from ENSA Marseille, of Atelier di Bernard in Marseille, an hybrid cultural and research centre and exhibiting space : an experiment to investigate the essence of the urban transformation and new forms of individual and collective living together.