CARLO CELLAMARE

(English version)
The programs and all information relating to the study courses (Territorial/Regional Planning, Sustainable Development & Planning, Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation) can be found both on the Gomp system of Sapienza and on the e-learning platform (moodle) of Sapienza. The next column shows the links to all the courses on the moodle platform.
Students will be received on Monday after class (at 16:00), in the office of the teacher in department. Other reception times may also be agreed. In any case, contact the teacher by e-mail to define the appointments.
For any difficulty you can write to the teacher at the institutional address: carlo.cellamare@uniroma1.it

The Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation course of the Rome site will start on 03.03.2026. The course is part of the Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering (II year, 6 credits).

In the second semester of the 2025-2026 academic year, the timetable of the Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation course is as follows:
Tuesday 9:00 - 11:00 (room 45 “Centro di calcolo Paolo Ercoli”)
Friday 16:00 - 19:00 (room 20)
The exact timetable of the lessons may be adjusted after the first week in relation to the needs of the students and the teachers, and the planning of the activities.
STUDENTS WHO INTEND TO ATTEND THE POLICIES AND ACTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION COURSE ARE INVITED TO WRITE AN EMAIL TO THE TEACHER TO REGISTER.

(Italian version)
I programmi e tutte le informazioni relative ai corsi di studio (Pianificazione Territoriale, Sviluppo Sostenibile del Territorio, Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation), sia per la sede di Roma che per la sede di Rieti, sono reperibili sia sul sistema Gomp della Sapienza che sulla piattaforma e-learning (moodle) della Sapienza. La colonna a fianco mostra i link a tutti i corsi della piattaforma moodle.

Il corso di Pianificazione Territoriale della sede di Roma inizierà il lunedì 02.03.2026. Il corso è inserito nel corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio (I anno, 9 cfu) e in parte mutuato dal corso di Laurea Magistrale in Gestione e Valorizzazione del Territorio (II anno, 6 cfu).

Nel secondo semestre dell'anno accademico 2025-2026 l'orario del corso di Pianificazione Territoriale è il seguente:
Lunedì 13:15 - 16:00 (aula 36)
Mercoledì 17:00 - 19:00 (aula 4)
Venerdì 14:00 - 17:00 (aula 12)
L'orario preciso delle lezioni potrà essere corretto dopo la prima settimana in relazione alle esigenze degli studenti.

Il corso di Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation della sede di Roma inizierà il 03.03.2026. Il corso è inserito nel corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio (II anno, 6 cfu).

Nel secondo semestre dell'anno accademico 2025-2026 l'orario del corso di Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation è il seguente:
Martedì 9:00 - 11:00 (aula 45 Centro di calcolo Paolo Ercoli)
Venerdì 16:00 - 19:00 (aula 20)
L'orario preciso delle lezioni potrà essere corretto dopo la prima settimana in relazione alle esigenze degli studenti e alla programmazione delle attività.
GLI STUDENTI CHE INTENDONO FREQUENTARE IL CORSO DI POLICIES AND ACTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION SONO INVITATI A SCRIVERE UNA MAIL AL DOCENTE PER REGISTRARSI.

Il sito è la Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale (edificio principale RM031). nei pressi della chiesa di San Pietro in Vincoli.
Gli studenti saranno ricevuti il lunedì dopo lezione (alle 16.00) nell’ufficio del docente in dipartimento. Possono essere concordati anche altri orari di ricevimento. In ogni caso contattare il docente via e-mail per definire gli appuntamenti.
Per qualsiasi difficoltà potete scrivere al docente all'indirizzo istituzionale: carlo.cellamare@uniroma1.it

Il modulo di Sviluppo Sostenibile del Territorio (corso di Geomatica e Sviluppo Sostenibile del Territorio) della sede di Rieti inizierà il 10.03.2024. Il corso è inserito nel corso di Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria dell'Innovazione Tecnologica per l'Edilizia.

Nel secondo semestre dell'anno accademico 2025-2026 l'orario del modulo di Sviluppo Sostenibile del Territorio è il seguente:
Martedì 14:00 - 19:00 (aula S. Lucia)
Il sito è Palazzo Aluffi nel centro storico di Rieti.
Gli studenti saranno ricevuti il martedì dopo lezione (alle 19.00), in sede a Rieti.
Per qualsiasi difficoltà potete scrivere al docente all'indirizzo istituzionale: carlo.cellamare@uniroma1.it
 

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Professore ordinario di urbanistica presso l’Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, direttore del Laboratorio di Studi Urbani “Territori dell’abitare”, direttore della rivista Tracce Urbane, Coordinatore del Collegio del Dottorato in Ingegneria dell’Architettura e dell’Urbanistica della Sapienza Università di Roma, co-direttore del Master di II livello interateneo (con IUAV Venezia) ProPart - Progettazione Partecipata. Responsabile scientifico di diverse ricerche, a carattere nazionale e internazionale. Svolge attività di ricerca sui temi del rapporto tra urbanistica e vita quotidiana, delle pratiche urbane, dei processi di progettazione ambientale e territoriale, della riqualificazione delle periferia, con riferimento soprattutto a Roma, anche attraverso percorsi di ricerca-azione e laboratori di quartiere, e con una particolare attenzione all’interdisciplinarietà e ai temi della partecipazione. È promotore della rete interdisciplinare di ricerca Tracce Urbane. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Fare città. Pratiche urbane e storie di luoghi (2008), Progettualità dell’agire urbano (2011), Fuori raccordo. Abitare l’altra Roma (2016), Città fai-da-te. Tra antagonismo e cittadinanza. Storie di autorganizzazione urbane (2019), Periferia. Abitare Tor Bella Monaca (con Montillo F., 2020), Abitare le periferie (2020).
General information
Since 2021, Full Professor of Regional and Town Planning in the School of Engineering, DICEA – Dpt. of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Since November 2024, Coordinator of the PhD Program in Architectural and Urban Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.
Since 2023, Co-Director of the Interuniversity Master's Degree ProPart – Participatory Planning, a collaboration between IUAV Venice and Sapienza University of Rome.
Since 2017, Editor-in-Chief of the transdisciplinary urban studies journal Tracce Urbane, a scholarly journal covering various disciplines, recognized by ANVUR of level A for the 08/F1 sectors (Urban and Regional Planning and Design) and 11/A5 (Demo-ethno-anthropological sciences) since 2023.
Since 2016, Director of the Laboratory of Urban Studies “Dwelling Territories”, DICEA – Dpt. of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
From 2015 to 2018, he was Director of CRITEVAT – the Rieti Research Center in Engineering for the Protection and Enhancement of the Environment and the Territory, at the Rieti campus of Sapienza University of Rome.
Scientific director and Principal Investigator of several national and international research projects, since 1997 he has been a member of the scientific coordination committees of MURST/MIUR/MUR/PRIN, CNR, international research projects, collaboration agreements, and research conventions.
He conducts research on the relationship between urban planning and everyday life, urban practices, and environmental and territorial design processes as complex social processes, focusing on both the relationship between territory and local development and the relationship between social networks and neighborhood transformation. He has developed his research through field research experiences and action research, with a particular focus on interdisciplinarity and participatory issues.
He teaches courses in Territorial Planning, Sustainable Development & Planning, Policies and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainable Territorial Development, and others (including, in the past, Territorial Engineering and Urban and Environmental Planning), both in the undergraduate and graduate programs, at the Rome campuses (undergraduate and graduate programs in Environmental and Territorial Engineering; master's program in Territorial Management and Development) and Rieti campuses of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
He has carried out extensive Third Mission activities. Among other things, he was coordinator of the City House of the 1st Municipality of Rome and scientific director of the Environmental Budget of the Province of Rieti and of Agenda 21 of the 9th Municipality of Rome. He is currently scientific director of a series of neighborhood laboratories in Rome, as well as involved in the Tiber River Contract from Castel Giubileo to the mouth. He is responsible for several collaboration agreements and research contracts.
Invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences.
Member of the scientific and editorial committees of scientific journals (ASUR, Plurimondi, Rivista della Società dei Territorialisti, etc.), referee, and member of the scientific committee of the series Quaderni dal territorio reatino (Edicom Edizioni), Territori (manifestolibri), Ricerche della Società dei Territorialisti (Firenze University Press), and Il futuro della città (Guerini).
He was a member of the Academic Council of the Federated University of Science and Technology of Sapienza University of Rome and of the Evaluation Committee of the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering.
He is the author of over 250 publications, including 11 monographs, more than 65 articles in scientific journals (20 articles in A-level or international scientific journals), and more than 110 essays in books.

Academic positions
2021 Full Professor of Regional and Town Planning in the School of Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2005 to 2020 Associate Professor of Regional and Town Planning in the School of Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2002-2004 Lecturer of Urban Planning in the School of Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
1998-2002 Researcher (post-doctorate scholarship), Department of Architecture and Town Planning, University of Rome “La Sapienza”

RESEARCH
Research interests and National and international research projects (selected)
Since 1997, he is member of the scientific coordination of several national and international, MIUR (PRIN - National Interest Research Programme), CNR researches and Researches contracts.
In recent years, his scientific activities have been focusing on:
1) The study, including interdisciplinary studies, of the relationships between urban practices and design, the relationship between urban planning and everyday life, the overall processes of formation and evolution of the city, the suburbs and urban policies in areas of urban expansion, and the relationship between processes of reappropriation and the sense of place. More recently, she has focused on the relationship between large-scale processes (settlement, territorial, socioeconomic, financial, structural, etc.) of urban transformation, urban policies and living conditions, housing policies, integral local development, and new forms of politics. This research has had as its backdrop and objective the critical rethinking of design and policy-making processes, so that they can better consider urban practices and living conditions in everyday life. This line of research has also been developed through interdisciplinary action research, with reference to various Roman contexts, from the Monti district in the historic center to neighborhoods such as Tor Bella Monaca and Quarticciolo in the suburbs. This research path is also deeply connected to third mission and public engagement activities and involves the Urban Studies Laboratory (LabSU) “Territori dell’abitare”
(https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/laboratorio-studi-urbani-dicea/).
Related research programmes (selection):
PRIN:
- PRIN 2022 (2023 – 2026) Looking into the dark. For a new epistemology and public action on territorial inequalities, Principal Investigator
- PRIN 2010-2011 (since 2013 up to 2016) Post-metropolitan territories as emergent forms of urban space: coping with sustainability, habitability, and governance, unit coordinator
- PRIN 2008-2010 The local territorial project: methods, techniques and experiences, member of the local research group
- PRIN 2005 (2006-2008) The territories of the city in transformation: innovation in descriptions and policies, Member of the research group of the local unit of Rome La Sapienza
Sapienza University Research Programs:
- Spatial and policy implications of the socio-economic structure and dynamics of Rome. An innovative integrated approach (University Main Program, 2019), scientific coordinator
- Understanding and rethinking Rome's development model. Proofing interdisciplinary methodologies at city-territory scale (University Main Program, 2017), co-scientific coordinator
- Empowering peripheries. Testing transdisciplinary and inclusive methodologies (University Main Program, 2015), scientific coordinator
- Roman peripheries and new narrative and planning forms (University Program, 2010), scientific coordinator
- New urban peripheries: evaluation of settlement’s expansion of Rome (University Program, 2008), scientific coordinator
Partner of the project Self Made Urbanism. Peripheries of a Cosmopolitan City, supported by NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst), Berlin in collaboration with metroZones, Center for Urban Affairs, Berlin and urbanXchange, Rome (2012-2013).
He has promoted (since 2010) and developed together with other professors, researchers and scholars of other disciplines (anthropology, sociology, geography, etc.) and other universities (Ferrara, IUAV Venice, Padua, Polytechnic of Milan, etc.) the interdisciplinary research network Tracce Urbane, which among other things annually holds a national conference on the most advanced research topics in urban studies.
Research activities in this field have also been supported by research agreements and Third Mission activities.
Member of several international networks and research agreements.
2) The study and experimentation, including through action research, of participatory design processes (closely connected to the previous research line). The underlying theme of this cultural and research path was the reconsideration of urban and regional planning processes as complex social processes (not just institutional) and as an expression of collective meaning-making. The research also focused on themes such as: design as a form of collective learning, the role and meaning of action, new forms of politics and the political nature of design interaction processes, action-design as a widespread social practice in plural contexts, forms of self-organization, neighborhood workshops, and civic centers. This research path also led to a critical rereading of the participatory processes themselves. This research path is also deeply connected to third mission and public engagement activities and has benefited from numerous experiments.
Related research programmes (selection):
PRIN :
- PRIN 2022 PNRR (2023 – 2026) Urban co-production and inclusive planning in marginalised contexts. Are Living Labs and the University capable of enhancing the active citizenship of fragile inhabitants?, Scientific Director of the UL Roma Sapienza
International projects:
- CNRS – LOUEST PICRI-IDF Research Programme “Democratie participative en Europe: vers une democratie technique?” (2006-2008), scientific coordinators Professor. Y. Sintomer and prof. M.-H. Bacque – Coordinator of the Rome research group.
Sapienza University Research Programs:
- 2006 “City House” (Faculty Project), scientific coordinator
- Scientific coordinator of research projects funded by the Department of Architecture and Town Planning (DAU) of the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and the 1st Municipality of Rome: Participatory Action Plan- Methodological and operational criteria (2005-2006), City House- Methodological and operational criteria (2006-2007).
Research activities in this field have often been supported by many collaboration agreements and research conventions with public bodies.
3. The study of the above aspects in relation to environmental issues and broader territorial contexts (parks and protected areas, environmental protection and enhancement), issues of local development and urban redevelopment, sustainable development, and the revision of disciplinary foundations based on an ecological and evolutionary approach to planning, social dynamics, and the relationship between humanity, society, and the environment. This line of research builds on previous research paths related to the themes of self-sustainable local development and environmental planning. The main research activities have focused primarily on the Rieti area, where the professor has conducted intense teaching and research, but have more recently also focused on urban and metropolitan contexts of environmental interest.
Partner and WT Scientific Responsible of the COST Action PHOENIX. Protection, Resilience, Rehabilitation of damaged environment (CA19123, ongoing).
Research activities in this field have often been supported by research agreements with public bodies, especially in the Rieti area. Some significant examples include Scientific Director of Research Agreements (selection):
- With the Metropolitan City of Rome: Updating and Development of the Knowledge Framework: Integrated Information System for the Tiber (SIIT) (2023-2024)
- with the Province of Rieti: Environmental Balance of the Province of Rieti. Criteria and Methods (2006-2007) and Protection and Enhancement of the Velino River. Elements for a Proposal for a Protected Area (2011-2012)
- with the Municipality of Rieti: Greenery Plan and Acoustic Zoning Plan for the Municipality of Rieti. Studies, Criteria and Methods (2009-2011)

International and National Conference Organisation (selected)
2017, International Conference Cities and Self-organization, AESOP TG “PS-UC”, Tracce Urbane research network, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, scientific coordinator
2017, National Seminar Series Borgate, Municipality of Rome, Sapienza University of Rome, scientific coordinator
2017, National Conference Rome in Transition, organized by GSSI Social sciences, L’Aquila (Italy), member of the scientific committee
2014, International Conference “Becoming Local”. Transforming spaces, redefining localities, organized by Laboratoire Architecture Anthropologie (LAA) & Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) Thematic Group “Public Spaces and Urban Cultures”, La Villette School of Architecture, Paris, member of the scientific committee

Academic and Scientific Societies Memberships (selected)
AESOP: Member of the Thematic Group “Public Space and Urban Cultures”, since 2016
Società dei territorialisti/e: Founding member
SIU: Member of SIU (Italian Scientific Society of Town Planning) since 2004

Direction and Memberships to Scientific and Editorial Boards
Director of the Scientific Journal in Urban Studies “Tracce Urbane / Urban Traces”
Membership to Scientific and Editorial Boards of International Journals
• ASUR – Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali
• Plurimondi
• Rivista della Società dei Territorialisti/e
Membership to Scientific Boards of the book series (selected) Territori (manifestolibri), Ricerche of the Società dei Territorialisti (Firenze University Press), ll futuro della città (Guerini), Territori (Ed.it press), 2050 abitare ecologie urbane (Edifir).
Blind Referee for the Journals (mainly class A): Territorio; ASUR – Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali; Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica; City, Territory and Architecture; CRIOS – Critica degli Ordinamenti Spaziali; Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa; Semestrale di Studi e Ricerche di Geografia; Home Cultures; International Planning Studies; Urban Research and Practice; etc.
Blind Referee of several books and national and international research programs.

TEACHING
Current Teaching
Master-level course Sustainable Development and Planning in the Course of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
Master-level course Territorial Planning in the Course of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
Master-level course Policy and Actions for Climate Change Mitigation in the Course of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
Course of Sustainable Development of the Territory at the Rieti campus (Bachelor's degree)
PhD. Since November 2024, Coordinator of the PhD in Architectural and Urban Planning Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. Since September 2015, Coordinator of the Urban Planning Curriculum of the PhD in Architectural and Urban Planning Engineering. Member of the teaching staff of the National PhD in Earth Observation, Sapienza University of Rome. Tutor and co-tutor of numerous (30) doctoral research projects at the PhD programs in Architectural and Urban Planning Engineering and Urban Planning Techniques at Sapienza and at other PhD programs in Italy.
Module ‘Research Methodology’ and several seminars in the PhD Programme “Architecture and Planning Engineering” (“Urban Studies” section), University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Master's Degree. Since 2023, Co-Director (with Professor Francesca Gelli) and lecturer of the Interuniversity Master's Degree ProPart – Participatory Planning, a collaboration between IUAV Venice and Sapienza University of Rome. Lecturer for other Master's Degrees in Italy.
Erasmus+. Head of the Sapienza University of Rome unit in the CIVIS network's Co-creating Urban Futures project.

Previous Teaching
• Teaching (selected):
2009 to 2021 Urban and Environmental Planning, Course in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Degree Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
2001 to 2020 Territorial Engineering, Course in Environmental and Territorial Engineering and Course in Building and Environmental Engineering, Graduate Programs, University "La Sapienza" of Rome
2009-2010 Environmental Planning (integrated module), Course in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master-level Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
2008-2009 Territorial Planning and Territorial Representation, Course in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Graduate Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
2004-2005 Urban Environmental Assessment in the Course of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master-level Program, University “La Sapienza” of Rome
2000-2001 Analysis of urban and territorial systems, Course in Environment and Territorial Engineering, Graduate Program, University "La Sapienza" of Rome
• Supervisor and co-tutor of doctoral researches at the PhD Program in ‘City Planning Techniques’, Sapienza University of Rome, and other Doctoral Programs.
• Supervisor of several postdoctoral researches
• Professor and member of the scientific committee of several master’s degree programs (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, University of Rome ‘Roma Tre’, University of Venice IUAV)
• Organization and participation in seminars and lectures at graduate and master level Course in different Italian and European Universities

THIRD MISSION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Responsible for research-action processes, Living Labs, urban regeneration and local development projects in the suburbs of Rome (Tor Bella Monaca, Quarticciolo, Centocelle, etc.), financed by foundations and national and local public bodies.
He has been scientific coordinator of the Casa della Città - Urban Centre programme in the 1st Municipality of Rome (Historic Centre).

University service (selected)
Director of the Laboratory of Urban Studies “Dwelling Territories”, DICEA – Dpt. of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2016 to date.
Representative of the “Urban Studies” section of the PhD Program “Architecture and Town Planning Engineering”, Sapienza University of Rome, 2015 to date
Director of the Interdepartmental Research Centre CRITEVAT (Engineering Research Centre on Territorial and Environmental Conservation and Enhancement), University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2015-2019.
Member of the Faculty Evaluation Team, School of Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 2011-2013
Member of the Academic Committee of the Science and Technology School (AST), Sapienza University of Rome, 2009-2010

Publications
He is the author of over 250 publications, including 11 monographs, more than 65 articles in scientific journals (20 articles in A-level or international scientific journals), and more than 110 essays in books.