Alessandro Aurigi

Professor Alessandro Aurigi - ()

Job title: Head of School/Assoc Dean/Professor of Urban Design, School of Architecture, Design and Environment (Faculty of Arts)
Address: Room 205, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Email: alex.aurigi@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
In Plymouth I am Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Environment, and Associate Dean of Arts
I have previosly worked at:
Newcastle University, where I was Director of Architecture and Senior Lecturer with the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (between 2001 and 2009)
University College London, where I was Research Fellow at CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and then Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning (between 1999 and 2001)

Qualifications & background
I studied Architecture and Urbanism in Florence (Italy) between 1982 and 1989, obtaining a 1st class Laurea in Architecture
I have a PhD from Newcastle University

Research interests
Research themes I am interested and involved with are:
The digitally-augmented city
Recombinant architecture and planning
Urban Design, public place-making and regeneration in the information age
Design methods and approaches, and tools for design thinking (pedagogical research)

UoP Research group membership

Architecture, Design and Environment
Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr)
Culture, Theory, Space

Publications
Recent publications include:

Aurigi A (2009) “U-City: Keeping Space and Place in the Picture” in Lee S H (Ed) Ubiquitous City: Future of City, City of Future, Daejeon: Hanbat National University Press

Aurigi A and De Cindio F (Eds) (2008) Augmented Urban Spaces: Articulating the Physical and Electronic City, Aldershot: Ashgate

Aurigi A (2008). “What you do not see is (also) what you get: invisible flows and the shaping of media-rich cities”. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, vol 25, n.2, pp.106-117.

Aurigi A. (2006) “New Technologies, yet same dilemmas? Policy and Design Issues for the Augmented City”, Journal of Urban Technology, 13(3), pp.5-28.

Firmino R. Aurigi A. Camargo A. (2006) “Why is it so hard to integrate ICT into the Planning agenda?”, in CORP 2006 - Sustainable Solutions for the Information Society - 11th International Conference on Urban Planning and Spatial Development for the Information Society

Aurigi A. (2005) Making the Digital City: The Early Shaping of Urban Internet Space, Aldershot: Ashgate

Reports & invited lectures

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES

2011 invited/funded speech: “Cidades Inovadoras’ (‘Innovative Cities’), international conference, Federacao das Industrias do Estado do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

2010 Invited address (through videoconference) ‘Citta’ 2.0’, international debate within ‘Social Media Week’, University of Milano, Italy

2009 Invited keynote speech: ‘Open Ubiquitous Oulu Seminar’, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

2009 Invited keynote speech, ‘i-Brussels: Urbanity and Technology’, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

2008 Invited/funded speech, ‘Future City’, international seminar, Ubiquitous City Research Cluster (Hanbat, Seoul National and other universities), Daejeon, South Korea

2007 Invited/funded keynote speech, ‘Digital Cities Summit, From Virtual World to Human World’, international conference, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

2005 Invited/funded keynote speech and conclusions, BRISE (Boosting Regional Information Society Expertise) international workshop, Municipality of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2005 Workshop chair and keynote speaker, ‘Digital Cities: The Augmented Public Space’, International workshop in conjunction with the Second International Conference on Communities and Technologies, University of Milano, Milano, Italy