Michael Batty
Michael Batty has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2005) which won the Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011, and most recently The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, 2013). His work covers the science underpinning the technology of cities and he has research interests in big data, urban morphology and visualisation. He is the editor of the journal Environment and Planning.
Twitter: @jmichaelbatty
David Rudlin
David is a director of URBED, Honorary Professor at Manchester University, Chair of the Academy of Urbanism and was also the winner of the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize. He is a planner by training and has worked on numerous masterplanning projects with URBED. His books include ’Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood' Architectural Press 1999 and Routledge 2009, 'Urbanism' Routledge 2015 and a forthcoming book 'Climax City' written with Shruti Hemani RIBA Publishing 2018.
Joanna Alimanestianu
Joanna Alimanestianu is an American and Belgian architect who has designed and built homes, gardens, furniture, offices and even entire neighborhoods, in the USA, Europe and Latin America. She has taught at the University of Notre Dame and at St Luc University School of Architecture in Brussels, and co-developed a new curriculum in architecture for the European Union's Leonardo da Vinci Programme. She is passionate about beauty in the human environment and its contribution to human well-being. Joanna studied at the Ecole de Polytecnique de Lausanne, Switzerland, and earned her Masters in Architecture from Princeton University.
Eugenio Morello
An architect by education, Eugenio Morello is Assistant Professor in Urban Design at POLIMI since 2010. He is also research scientist at the Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti , DAStU. His research interest is urban environmental quality and urban morphology. He works in particular with digital simulations and prediction models for the integration of environmental aspects and energy systems within the design of sustainable neighborhoods. He was previously a Roberto Rocca postdoctoral fellow at the Human Space Lab, POLIMI (2009) and at the SENSEable City Lab, MIT (2008). He was also adjunct professor at POLIMI since 2006, where he taught urban design. He holds a Ph.D. in environmental design and building technology from POLIMI (2006).
http://www.labsimurb.polimi.it
Facebook: @energyandurbanplanning
Facebook: @labsimurb
Alessandro Balducci
Alessandro Balducci, Ms in Architecture and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning. Is Full professor of Planning and Urban Policies at the Politecnico di Milano and president of Urban@it, the National Center for Urban Policies Studies. Has been Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning of the City of Milan, senior Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano, head of the Department of Architecture and Planning of the same university, director of the PhD program in Spatial Planning and Urban Development, President of the Association of the European Schools of Planning, founding member of the European Urban Research Association, and chair of the Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU). Director of many national and European research projects on urban innovation, is author or editor of 17 books and of numerous articles and essays in Italian and English on urban planning and urban policies topics.
Twitter: @SandroBalducci
Alessandro Giuliani
Dr. Alessandro Giuliani is involved in the generation and testing of soft physical and statistical models for life sciences. He puts a special emphasis on the elucidation of mesoscopic complex systems like protein sequence/structure prediction, complex network approaches, Systems Biology. He serves as senior scientist at Environment and Health Department of Istituto Superiore di Sanitù (Italian NIH) since 1997. He is part of the Faculty of Research Doctorate in Biophysics at ‘La Sapienza University’ of Roma.
He is the author of 280 publications on peer-review journals with an H-index = 38.
Stefano Candellieri
From 1991 to 2001 worked at the Local Psychiatric Services and the “Fatebenefratelli” Psychiatric Hospital of San Maurizio Canavese in Turin, where he held the role of Head Physician Assistant dealing with psychotic diseases, severe personality disorders and forensic psychiatry. Since 2001 he fully dedicates himself to private counselling as psychiatrist and psychotherapist. In partnership with psychologist and psychotherapist Davide Favero, he is founder of the Psychological Medical Center of Turin. He publishes scholarly articles on specialist journals. His current research sits at the interface between psychoanalysis (with special reference to Antonino Ferro’s models) and semiotics.
Alastair Parvin
Alastair Parvin is a strategic designer, civic entrepreneur and the co-founder of WikiHouse Foundation. He is currently working on better housing systems, open source sustainable technology, distributed production and how the digital revolution might help us reinvent our housing economy and build more resilient, democratic cities. Although he trained in architecture, his work extends outside its traditional framework, looking at the invisible economic, social, political and industrial forces behind it. He is a co-inventor of WikiHouse, a digital building system which is using open design and distributed digital manufacturing to radically democratise the production of homes.
Twitter: @AlastairParvin
Olga Volchkova
Classically trained in painting and restoration, Olga Volchkova joined an important post-Soviet iconostasis journeyman team in the early 1990's. In her current icons, she canonizes herbs, flowers, and other plants: a secular continuation of that revival. As an avid gardener, who grew up partly in a subsistence farming village, she's a keen student of natural morphology, and the history of human-plant interaction. Her specialties include the rigorous use of processes from artisan and fine art traditions. She was the concluding subject in Christopher Alexander’s software experiment ‘Gatemaker’, which facilitates unfolding natural structure. She teaches icon painting at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.