Academic affiliations and memberships:
Research Fellow, INTI International University (Malaysia)
Affiliated Member, Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food (UNIMI, Italy)
Delegate-at-Large, International Association for Aesthetics (2019–2023)
Editorial Advisory Board, Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics
Editorial Board Member, Graffiti and Street Art (GSA)
Editorial Board Member, ESPES: The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics
Scientific Committee Member, Street Art and Urban Creativity (SAUC)
Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Inquires
Board Member, Association of Italian Scholars in China (2017–2020)
(I)Research Interests:
Aesthetics, ethics of cultural heritage, foundations of intellectual property law, economics of art, urban creativity, and visual culture
Courses for undergraduate students: Western art history， Appreciating and curating art
(III) Research Achievements
Publications:
BOOKS
1. Baldini, Andrea (2021) Street art tra estetica e legge [Street art between aesthetics and the law], Pisa: ETS, 2018 [ISBN: 8846758803]
2. A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law, Leiden: Brill, 2018 [ISBN: 978-90-04-39404-9]
3. Un(Authorized)//Commissioned, Rome: WholeTrain Press, 2017 [ISBN: 9788897640059] (with Pietro Rivasi)
Representative Papers：
1. “Introduction: Food and Cultural Heritage,” in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2023 [ISSN: 0021-8529] [A&HCI]
2. “Graffiti Writing as Creative Activism: Getting Up, Sheeplike Subversion, and Everyday Resistance,” in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (2), 2023: 239–49 [ISSN: 0021-8529] [A&HCI]
3. “Street Art vs Arte Pubblica Ufficiale [Street Art vs Official Public Art],” in La Rivista di Estetica. I quaderni. Le arti contemporanee 1, 2023: 8–16 [ISSN: 0035-6212] [A&HCI]
4. “Philosophy of Street Art: Identity, Value, and the Law,” in Philosophy Compass 17 (9), e12862, 2022 [ISSN:1747-9991] [A&HCI]
5. “Art and Labor: Rethinking Creativity in a Time of Crisis” in La Rivista di Estetica 79, 2022: 33–48 [ISSN: 0035-6212] [A&HCI]
6. “What Is Street Art?” in Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 59 (1), 2022: 1–21 [E-ISSN: 2571-0915 ] [A&HCI]
7. ``Cooking and Dining as Forms of Public Art'' in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research}25(2), 2021: 310–27 [ISSN: 1552-8014] (SSCI)
8. “Beauty and the Behest: Distinguishing Legal and Aesthetic Judgment in the Context of 21st Century Street Art and Graffiti,” in La Rivista di Estetica 65, 2017: 91–106 [ISSN: 0035-6212] [A&HCI]
9. “Street Art: A Reply to Riggle,” in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74.2, 2016: 187–191 [ISSN: 0021-8529] [A&HCI]
10. “An Urban Carnival on the City Walls: The Visual Representation of Financial Power in European Street Art,” in Journal of Visual Culture: 14.2, 2015: 246–252 [ISSN: 1470-4129] [A&HCI, SSCI]
Major Research Projects
Scientific research projects:
Co-led the “Restoring Banksy’s Flower Thrower in Bethlehem” sponsored by City University London (2020—);
Participated in the “Urban creativity in Italy” under the Project of the Italian Ministry of Culture , 2020;
Participated in the “Imperfectionist Aesthetics: Philosophy, Art, Culture” under the project of the KAKEN grants (Japan Grant Number: JP19K00143)
(IV) Award and Honor
1. Won the Top Paper in Urban Communication at the National Communication Association (NCA) Meeting in2016;
