Federica Moretti is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Université de Lausanne (CH) within the ERC-ARTIVISM project directed by Prof. Dr. Salzbrunn. Adopting an ethnographical approach, her doctoral research analyses how carnivals can become ways of alternative political expression in contexts where people feel unheard, unrepresented and unconsidered as part of the city life. Federica holds a B.A. in Cross-cultural Communication with a specialization in Sociology of Migrations from the Università degli Studi di Torino (IT), as well as a M.Sc. in Social and Cultural Anthropology with a specialization in Migrations, Minorities and Multiculturalism from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (BE). During her B.A., she was an exchange student at the Universität Bremen (DE) in the framework of the Erasmus project. Federica’s academic works focus on migration-related phenomena. In her M.Sc. thesis “Broken Dreams of a Dream Country. Italy Between Wishes and Disenchantments” directed by Prof. Dr. Salazar (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Dr. Elliot (University of Bristol), she explored the mobility of young Italians adopting the imaginaries’ theoretical perspective, that allowed a broader understanding of the dynamics triggering the motion of people. She presented her thesis in an international conference in Turin (IT), and part of it was published in scientific and international journals. Her current research interests revolve around art and activism, multisensoriality, visual anthropology, migration and mobilities studies.