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Sintesi (ita)
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, membro del Collegio del Dottorato in Ingegneria dell Architettura e dell Urbanistica della Sapienza Università di Roma (e referente del curriculum Tecnica Urbanistica). 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 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 (a cura di, 2016), Città fai-da-te. Tra antagonismo e cittadinanza. Storie di autorganizzazione urbane (2019), Periferia. Abitare Tor Bella Monaca (con F. Montillo, 2020), Abitare le periferie (2020).

Current position
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
Director of the scientific journal in Urban Studies Tracce Urbane / Urban Traces , University of Rome La Sapienza
Director of the Laboratory of Urban Studies Dwelling Territories , DICEA Dpt. of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza
Member of the scientific committee and Representative of the Urban Studies section of the PhD Program Architecture and Town Planning Engineering , Sapienza University of Rome

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 scolarship), 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, also with an interdisciplinary approach, of the relationships between urban practices and planning, the relationship between the overall processes of formation and evolution of the city and the everyday life, urban policies in areas of settlement expansion, the relationship between re-appropriation processes and sense of places. More recently, it has focused on the relationship between major processes (socio-economic, financial, structural, etc.) of the transformation of the city, urban policies and conditions of living, and on urban regeneration of the peripheries (especially in Rome and in social housing neighborhoods) even through action-research programs.
Related research programmes (selection):
PRIN:
- 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
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, ongoing), 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)
2) The study and the experimentation, even through action-research experiences, of participative planning processes. His research has been focusing on the re-consideration of urban design and planning not only as institutional processes, rather as complex social processes and as expression of a collective construction of meaning. These researches have been focusing on themes such as the project as a collective learning process, the sense and the role of urban actions, new policies and processes of interactive-design and collaborative projects .
Related research programmes (selection):
- 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.
- 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)
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.

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).
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; etc.
Blind Referee of several books and national and international research programs.

TEACHING
Current Teaching
Master-level module Urban and Environmental Planning in the Course of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Program, University La Sapienza of Rome
Master-level module Territorial Planning in the Course of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Program, University La Sapienza of Rome
Graduate-level module Territorial Engineering, Course in Sustainable Building Engineering, Graduate Program, University La Sapienza of Rome
Module Research Methodology and several seminars in the PhD Programme Architecture and Planning Engineering ( Urban Studies section), University of Rome La Sapienza

Previous Teaching
Teaching (selected):
2000-2001 Analysis of urban and territorial systems, Course in Environment and Territorial Engineering, Graduate Program, University "La Sapienza" of Rome
2001 to date Territorial Engineering, Course in Environment and Territorial Engineering and Course in Building and Environmental Engineering, Graduate Programs, 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
2008-2009 Territorial Planning and Territorial Representation, Course in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Graduate Program, University La Sapienza of Rome
2009 to 2016 Urban and Environmental Planning, Course in Environmental and Territorial Engineering, Master Graduate Degree Program, 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
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

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
More than 190 publications. Among them 10 monographies and more than 50 journal articles (15 articles in level A or international scientific journals) and 80 essays in books.