User:Martina orsini

PhD Architect and Urban designer Professor of Urban and Territorial Design Professor of Urban Studies Consultant

PhD in Urban Design, IUAV, Venice (Italy) coordinated by prof. Bernardo Secchi. Since 2004 she is Professor of “Urban Studies” and from 2010 of "Urban Design", Faculty of Architecture-Bovisa, Politecnico of Milano, Italy. She partecipated national research, participated or coordinated workshops and exibits. She published, among others: "Milan Today: reasons for a review", Hoepli Editore, Milano, Italy, 2004 (English and Italian text); “Space of production and infrastructures” in Infra 2.Habitat, environment, infrastructures: experiences, Marsilio Editore, Venice, Italy, 2005. She workes as a designer at urban and territorial scales. Her research interests addressed to the potentialities of specific urban materials such as: infrastructures, high or low density habitats, consolidated historic fabrics, transitional spaces at various urban scales, territorial voids in the urban spread or diffusion, each of deepening design and theoretical aspects. She is recently focusing on Public Spaces in the Contemporary City highlighting dynamics of physical and conceptual privatization and fallout of global design practices in terms of de-materialization of the city form.

Recent conferences: Università Federico II (Naples, ITA) december 2014 School of Advanced Study (London, UK), april 2014 University of Brighton (Brighton, UK), june 2013 Università Federico II (Naples, ITA), may 2013 Goldsmiths, University of London (London, UK), june 2012

Scheduled conferences: University of Westminster (London, UK) International conference: "Re-imagining Rurality" February 2015

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