Giuseppina Scavuzzo, architect, PhD in Architectural Composition at Iuav University, is an associate professor in Architectural Design, at the University of Trieste’s Department of Engineering and Architecture, where she teaches architectural design and interior architecture and is a member of the college of professors for the inter-university PhD programme of Engineering and Architecture with the University of Udine. Various examples of her research on the symbolic and narrative dimension of architecture are published in national and international magazines and books. For some years she has been studying the theme of total institutions, particularly the aspect of the relationship between rights and their location within architecturally defined forms and spatial limits.