speakers

Matteo Robiglio

Politecnico di Torino – Professor

adaptive reuse, urban regeneration, industrial reuse and city planning Matteo Robiglio is an architect and urban designer. He is full professor at Politecnico di Torino, where he is the manager of the Interdepartmental Center Future Urban Legacy Lab, and where he headed the School of Architecture from 2014 to 2018. After 20 years of practice in community architecture and urban regeneration with Avventura Urbana, he founded in 2011 with Isabelle Toussaint the office TRA (lit.: in-between), focusing on adaptive reuse for education, housing, production and services. In 2014 TRA and the community foundation Benvenuti in Italia jointly founded the non-profit social innovation start-up HOMERS, recognized as Polito spin-off, promoting bottom-up cohousing projects for the reuse of abandoned buildings.

Francesca Frassoldati

Politecnico di Torino – Professor

spatial effects of socio-economic transformations Francesca Frassoldati is Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture of Politecnico di Torino since December 2015. From 2008 she has been working at the South China University of Technology.Out of a long-term commitment to understanding processes, tensions, and spatial effects of socio-economic transformations in the habitable world, her major lines of work address rural-urban interaction and urban regeneration processes with particular emphasis on the use of spatial design in public discourse.

Eran Ben-Joseph

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Professor

urban and city planning, urban design, landscape architecture Eran Ben-Joseph is a Professor and the former head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. His research and teaching areas include urban and physical design, standards and regulations, sustainable site planning technologies and urban retrofitting. He authored and co-authored the books: Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities, Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, The Code of the City, RENEW Town and ReThinking a Lot. Eran worked as a city planner, urban designer and landscape architect in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Chiba National University of Japan.

Mary Anne Ocampo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Lecturer

urban design and cultural identity Mary Anne Ocampo is a Principal at Sasaki, an interdisciplinary firm with an integrated planning and design philosophy, and a Lecturer of Urban Design in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.   She practices as an urban designer, working on international and domestic institutional and urban projects. Her research focuses on urban design and cultural identity; socio-ecological urban design approaches to urban resilience; and planning and design for higher education. She serves as the Chair of the board for the Hideo Sasaki Foundation and as the Associate AIA Director for the Boston Society of Architects. Mary Anne’s design work has been recognized with awards from the American Planning Association, American Institute of Architects, and the Society of College and University Planning, among others. She holds degrees from the University of Kentucky, Cornell University, and Harvard University.

Giulia Sammartano

Politecnico di Torino – Senion research assistant

geomatics MSc in Architecture and PhD in Geomatics, senior research assistant @ Lab.G4CH and FULL. Research interests in geo-spatial science for 3D documentation of built heritage.

Emilio Abbate

Politecnico di Torino – PhD candidate

geomatics PhD candidate in G4CH Lab and FULL. His research activity concerns Geomatics techniques for 3D documentation of built heritage and urban analysis.

Emanuele Protti

Politecnico di Torino – PhD candidate

urban manufacturing and urban development Ph.D. candidate at Politecnico di Torino. His research is focused on the adaptive reuse of industrial urban areas for new urban economies linked to Manufacturing, Creative Economies, and New Craft.

Caterina Barioglio

Politecnico di Torino – Assistant professor

urban design and history of architecture Caterina Barioglio (1985) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino. She held a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urban Design in 2016 with a dissertation carried out between Turin and Columbia University. Bridging history and design, her research relates to urban regeneration processes, with the main focus on the spatial effects of urban rules and socio-economic transformations. From 2016 to 2018 she worked for the new masterplan project of the Politecnico di Torino. Since 2018 she has been a member of the research center FULL – Future Urban Legacy Lab.

Daniele Campobenedetto

Politecnico di Torino – Assistant professor

city planning, urban transformations and re-use, history of architecture Daniele Campobenedetto (1986) is an architect and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design of Politecnico di Torino. He holds a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Town Planning from Politecnico di Torino and in Architecture from Université Paris Est.  His research activities investigate especially urban transformation and re-use strategies and have been carried out in Paris, Shanghai and Turin. From 2017 he is part of the Masterplan Team of Politecnico di Torino and from 2016 he is a member of the Editorial Board of Ardeth – Architectural Design Theory – Journal. Among his most recent publications: Paris les Halles. Storie di un future conteso, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2017.

Chiara Lucchini

Urban Lab | PoliTo – Adjunct Professor

urban studies, urban transformations Chiara Lucchini, Architect, Ph.D., is adjunct professor in the fields of landscape and urban design at the Architecture and Design Department of Politecnico di Torino. She joined the Urban Center Metropolitano Torino, now Urban Lab, in 2007.

Alberto Vanolo

Università di Torino – Professor

urban studies, urban transformations Alberto Vanolo is professor of political and economic geography at the University of Turin, Italy

Marianna Nigra

Politecnico di Torino – Research fellow

relationship between design, economy, environment and society Marianna Nigra is an Architect and Research Fellow at the Politecnico of Turin, Italy. Marianna obtained her PhD in Engineering Management at the Politecnico of Turin, as well as her Master Degree in Architecture. Her work is aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity of design and the economic, environmental and social effects that projects can generate. She has also carried out research at The Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK and at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Holland. Previously, Marianna Nigra worked in International contexts such as Spain, Thailand, and Australia within the field of sustainable innovation for a resilient

Luis Martin

Università IUAV di Venezia – PhD researcher

urbanism Graduated in the Politecnico di Torino in 2015. Since 2016 is doing a PhD research at IUAV University of Venice on the relationship between production and territory in the post-crisis Italy. Member of the City & Production Lab, research group of the Politecnico di Torino, since 2017. Collaborates since 2016 in urban planning courses in the Politecnico di Torino Architecture Faculty. PhD visiting in Tongji University and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in 2019.

Eloy Llevat Soy

UR&D Politecnico di Torino – PhD researcher

urbanism Graduated in the Politecnico di Torino in 2016. Since 2017 is doing a PhD research between the Politecnico di Torino and the EPFL on the eects of public policies on the new forms of production in Geneve. Member of the City & Production Lab, rese- arch group of the Politecnico di Torino, since 2017. In the 2019 initiated a collabora- tion with the HABITAT Research Laboratory of the EPFL for the Grand Genève consultation project.

Maicol Negrello

Politecnico di Torino – Research fellow

architecture, urban agricolture, climate change Mike Negrello is an architect, PhD, and teaching assistant at Politecnico di Torino. His researches are focused on the relationship between urban environment and agricultural production. He is also developing research and teaching on architectural and urban design for climate change.

Lucia Baima

Politecnico di Torino – PhD researcher

urban studies, urban dynamics, intensity

Carlo Deregibus

Politecnico di Torino – Research fellow

architecture and urban design Carlo Deregibus is an architect, PhD in Architecture and Building Design. He is a research fellow in the Masterplan of the Politecnico di Torino.

Alessandro Benetti

Politecnico di Milano –

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