MAIN PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
2018
Senior Researcher & HEAD-Genuit Fellow
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BERLIN
I am currently HEAD-Genuit Senior Research Fellow at TU Berlin Institute of City & Regional Planning, where I have established and lead the Hush City Mobile Lab to make our cities quiet and healthy places to live in.
2017
Inventor & Manager of the “Hush City” project
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BERLIN
I have envisioned and run the innovative soundscape and citizen science project: Hush City, a free mobile app which empowers people to explore, map and evaluate quiet areas in their cities & worldwide.
2016
Researcher & Ipodi-Marie Curie Fellow
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BERLIN
In 2016-2018, I have envisioned and successfully implemented the Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes project where I have experimented with a novel, citizen-driven methodology to identify, assess and plan urban quiet areas.
2006
Registered architect, researcher and visiting lecturer
FREELANCE
I worked at Italian and international private research centres, universities and architecture design firms, e.g.: Archea Associati (IT), MIT (Cambridge, USA), New University of Lisbon (P), National Institute of Architecture (IT), Kent State University (USA/IT), Municipality of Firenze (IT). I have been a chartered architect and member of the Architects’ Association of Firenze, since 2006 (no. 6858).
EDUCATION
2010
PhD in Urban Design and Territorial Planning
MIT (USA) + UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE (ITALY)
I undertook doctoral studies in Urban Design and Territorial Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Firenze and at the City Design and Development Lab, MIT (Boston, USA). My dissertation On the Sonic Image of the City. Mapping and Design Soundscapes in Contemporary Cities was awarded the 2010 National Institute of Urbanism Award and the 2012 City of Firenze Research Award.
2005
BArch & MArch Architecture
UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE (ITALY)
I completed my degree in Architecture (Laurea cum Laude) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Firenze, with a master thesis in Urban Design and Planning: Designing the Emilia road in Modena.
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