Circular economy; cities and territories; socio-ecological transition; resource flows Chapter co-authored with Cecilia Furlan, Alexander Wandl and Chiara Cavalieri, published in Amenta L., Russo M., van Timmeren A. (eds) Regenerative Territories. GeoJournal Library, vol 128. Springer, Cham Abstract: Nowadays, the circularity concept dominates the debate on resource management in cities and territories. The idea is often used as […]
CENTRINNO is a research project focused on industrial historical sites under transformation. It will showcase the potential of these cultural landscapes to become new and inclusive hubs of entrepreneurship, manufacturing and innovation for city residents and small producers while fostering sustainability and social inclusion. The project is funded by the EU H2020 program and is […]
The project REsource Management in Peri-urban Areas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism was funded by the EU under a H2020 scheme. Its main objective was to provide local and regional authorities with an innovative transdisciplinary and open-source geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) developed and implemented in living labs in six metropolitan areas. The GDSE allows creating […]
This proposal aims at structuring an green-blue-gray matrix along the Carretera Real, or Royal Road, together with the urban areas of four small towns of the Baix Llobregat in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, the farm land, and the existing ecological corridors in the area. A mobility and urban renewal approach was combined with the […]
Analysis and proposal for the Lea river valley in London. The work developed as part of a research by design studio at TU Delft, in collaboration with Ricardo Avella, and guided by Birgit Hausleitner and Taneha Kuzniecow. The work consisted of two parts. The first one included a layered analysis of the urban development of […]
Project on recycled plastics developed in UPM University in 2010. The work was developed under a scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education. The project was based on the work in a design studio at the architecture school of ETSA Madrid. Different material pieces, based on recycled plastic bags were developed and tested in the […]