Carla Brisotto, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) and Assistant Scholar at the School of Architecture at the University of Florida (UF) Carla is an urban theorist and environmental storyteller. She works with communities within the Florida Resilient Cities Lab to understand dynamics of spontaneous urban transformation. Her goal is to inform how to design places to address the climate asymmetric impacts on population. Currently, Carla is leading the international project “ReclaiMEDLand” funded by the Department of State of the United States of America. She holds a Ph.D. in Design, Construction, and Planning from UF and a M.Arch degree from the University IUAV of Venice.

Dr. Jemma Browne is the first permanent Head of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, founded 1908, with a vision grounded in the transformational power of design in creating sustainable and inclusive futures. Jemma was a Co-founder Experimental Sustainability Studios, created to embed sustainability in the curriculum. She completed her Doctoral research Spatial Representations of Memory and Identity in the City; An Urban Cultural Topography, in 2018 and continues to pursue themes from within this project to develop a theoretical context to understand how cultural identities could be traced within city spaces, using the concept of urban cultural topography. She currently has research collaborations with Birmingham City council: Frameworks for Environmental Justice and Shrewsbury Museum and the partnerships gallery with the British Museum. Before training in architecture, she ran a number of National homelessness projects and worked in many different roles in the housing and social justice charity sector; this experience and commitment to spatial and environmental justice underpins her approach to architectural education.

After graduating in Computer Science from the University of Turin with a thesis on artificial intelligence, she gained many years of experience in the world of IT work as a programmer and analyst first in the field of industrial automation, and then in telecommunications. She has long experience as a public administrator culminating as regional councilor and regional alderman of Piedmont from 2014 to 2019 with the delegations: equal opportunities, civil rights, right to university study, youth policies, immigration, international cooperation, and consumer protection.
Since 2020, she has been a researcher at the Department of Informatics of the University of Turin in the research group coordinated by Professor Guido Boella, where she works on digital civic technologies, inclusion and social innovation, European projects including NLAB4CIT (Network of laboratories for civic technology co-production) and CHEDIH (European digital innovation hub for SMEs and PA).

Promoter of the PNRR Observatory on Digital Gender Impact of the Women 4.0 Association, Top Voice LinkedIn for gender equality and member of the Scientific Committee of Junco – Journal of Universities and International Development Cooperation, and CIRSDe – Interdisciplinary Center for Research and Women and Gender Studies, in May 2024 she was appointed as an expert on the board on the ethical use of emerging technologies of the City of Turin.

Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira is an Associate Professor in Urbanism at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His areas of expertise include nature-based solutions, green urbanism, and sustainable and resilient cities. He is the author of “Green Wedge Urbanism: History, Theory and Contemporary Practice”, and co-editor of the books “Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban planning”, “Re-imagining Resilient
Productive Landscapes” and “Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods”.

Dr Yazid Khemri is a lecturer in Architecture at Birmingham City University in the UK. Yazid was awarded a PhD in Architecture by the University of Portsmouth, and he also holds an Architect diploma and an MSc in Architecture and Sustainable Environment. He has both professional and academic experiences, which are complemented by a strong passion for research into sustainable architecture and cities. He is currently focusing on urban social sustainability and community resilience, with a particular emphasis on topics related to urban life. In 2021, he collaborated with the curator Alessandro Melis for the Italian pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, and in 2023 he was the artistic director supervising the participation of Birmingham City University in a collateral event “Students as Researchers” as part of La Biennale di Venezia 2023.

PhD (Portsmouth), is a senior researcher at Auckland University of Technology. Previously postdoctoral researcher at the University of Porto. He was a member of the curatorial team of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021. He has more than ten years’ experience as a registered architect and urban designer and a chartered member of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Merida (Mexico). In addition, he was a co-founder of the IMPLAN-Merida (Municipal Institute of Urban Planning in Merida City). His research and professional experience include works in Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He focuses on research topics related to informality in the urban landscape, architectural exaptation, as well as studies on urban sustainability and resilience. Antonio has published several academic articles and books highlighting the impact of the transformation of the built environment at the streetscape level towards the diversity of temporary appropriation in cities.

Ornella Iuorio is Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (IT). Formerly, Full Professor and Chair of Architecture & Structures at the University of Leeds (UK). Iuorio passion and experience are in developing sustainable and resilient building systems, with special attention to lightweight systems, prefab, circular
economy, and digital constructions. She was recognized as one of the “Top 50 Women in Engineering: Invertors & Innovators” by the Guardian in 2022 for the development of innovative lightweight construction systems with high structural performance and low embodied carbon, that are finding large applications in mass manufacturing.

Jing Ma, Ph.D., Associate Senior Lecturer at Architecture Group, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Jing has a background in Landscape Architecture, with great interests in design and management of urban Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) in conjunction with human health and wellbeing. Her research involves spatial data analysis and the social benefits of urban GBI in policies and practices for sustainable urban development.

Alessandro Marata, founder of the professional studio Architecture Technology Environment, is Professor at the
Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna, journalist and director of the Editorial series “SEED Design
Action for the Future”. He was president of the Order of Architects of Bologna and National Councilor Coordinator of the Environment and Sustainability Department. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and has been awarded
in national and international architecture competitions.

Barbora Melis (Foerster) graduated in Urban Planning in 2010 at the Technische Universitaet in Berlin after a period of study at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia.
She has over ten years of experience as an urban planner at an international level, both on behalf of public bodies, such as the Veneto Region, and in professional practice in Italy, Germany, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. Barbora carries on academic activities, at the University of Portsmouth (UoP, UK) and at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT, USA) on the themes of inclusion and diversity as tools of urban resilience, from the female perspective in city planning. Barbora is currently doing her PhD research with UoP in collaboration with the NYIT and the Pratt Institute (USA). She was a member of the Curatorial Team of the Italian Pavilion “Resilient Communities” at the Venice Biennale 2021.

Maria R. Perbellini holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from Pratt Institute. She also holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, Italy. Prior to joining New York Tech, she served as Associate Dean for postgraduate programs in the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University (TTU), where she developed a curriculum for the Master of Architecture degree with four postgraduate certifications, as well as a post-professional Master of Architecture degree with specializations in digital design and production, urban and community design, and design and health.
He also coordinated the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Spatial Planning, Management and Design. Perbellini has taught various levels of architectural design studios and advanced graduate technology courses. At TTU, he co-founded the graduate digital design and production program. For several summers, he directed the study abroad program in Verona, Italy. He also implemented an undergraduate digital media sequence and graduate digital workshops to support and supplement design and construction courses; this initiative had a significant impact on the pedagogical direction of the College of Architecture. Previously, Perbellini taught at the University of Texas at Austin and at Yeungjin Jr. College in Taegu, South Korea. Perbellini’s research interests include parametric surface structures, design process, digital design and fabrication, and intermediate architecture. She is a partner in Pongratz Perbellini, an internationally recognized multidisciplinary firm. Prior to starting her practice, she worked for Peter Eisenman and John Reimnitz in New York, collaborated on the design of prestigious commissioned buildings, and participated in international and invited design competitions. A frequent exhibitor and speaker, Perbellini has co-authored numerous publications.

Massimo Pica Ciamarra 1997/2011 v.President IN/Arch; among founders of Institute for the dissemination and enhancement of scientific culture. Directs Le Carrè Bleu, feuille internationale d’architecture; Professor International Academy of Architecture.
Books include Poetics of the Fragment and Ecological Conversion, CivETS 2021. Latest monograph: A.I.Lima, The Architecture of Pica Ciamarra Associates. From Urban Fragments to Ecological Systems, Axel Menges, Stuttgart/London 2019.

Graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, with a thesis on the immaterial redevelopment of the historic center of Porto (PT) and a master’s degree in Extraordinary Landscapes, she began her professional activity in Portugal collaborating with professional studios and creative industries. An active protagonist of the bottom-up regeneration movement of urban places and spaces, she gained experience in participatory design processes developing a personal vision on space understood as a communication tool for the communities that live it. This led her to train in the field of communication, becoming a freelance journalist and beginning collaboration with newspapers and publishing houses, dealing with territorial storytelling, participatory journalism and civic landscape, among other topics. She was editor-in-chief of the magazine NUUN | Stile Glocale and editor of ListLab publisher. Since 2021 she has been a researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Turin in the research group coordinated by Professor Guido Boella. Specifically, she deals with third mission, taking care of the dialogue with the territory, supporting PA and 3rd sector in the use of digital civic technologies. For the research group he designs and implements dissemination and popularization activities, organizing events and participating in conferences and conventions.

Master Degree in Architecture, Ph.D in Architectural Composition at University Iuav of Venice. He has been Research Fellow at IR.IDE (Infrastructure Research Integral Design Environment) at University Iuav of Venice, currently he is Senior Lecturer at LTU Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Winner of the Lerici F. Grant in 2020 and Canon F. Research Fellowship 2023. Within the professional activity he has been nominated at the EU Mies Award 2019, curator of Grenada Pavilion at the 17 Biennale of Venice and co-author of Georgian Pavilion at the 18 Biennale of Venice.