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- alex.aurigi@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Professor Alessandro Aurigi
Associate Dean - International
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
Alessandro can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Architecture
- Urban regeneration
- Public space
- Smart cities
- Urban design
- Public participation
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
I am Associate Dean for Research and Internationalisation for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. As ADR I oversee the development and implementation of the Faculty Research Strategy as well as REF strategy and preparation, This is carried our through a network of Associate Heads of School and REF UoA coordinators. As ADI I oversee the Internationalisation work ongoing in the Faculty and coordinate a network of Associate Heads of School.
I am Professor of Urban Design within the School of Art, Design and Architecture, and teach in the Master of Architecture studio.
Still at Plymouth, I was previously Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Environment (2009-2016)
I have previosly worked at:
Newcastle University (2001-2009) where I was Deputy Head of School and Director (Head of Dept) of Architecture within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
University College London (1999-2001) where I was Research Fellow at CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and then Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning
Still at Plymouth, I was previously Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Environment (2009-2016)
I have previosly worked at:
Newcastle University (2001-2009) where I was Deputy Head of School and Director (Head of Dept) of Architecture within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
University College London (1999-2001) where I was Research Fellow at CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and then Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning
Qualifications
I studied Architecture and Urbanism in Florence (Italy) between 1982 and 1989, obtaining a 1st class Laurea in Architecture (110/110)
I have a PhD in Urban Planning from Newcastle University
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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)
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'From “Smart in the Box” to “Smart in the City”: Rethinking the Socially Sustainable Smart City in Context' Journal of Urban Technology 0, 0-0 , DOI Open access
2012 'Reflections towards an agenda for urban-designing the
digital city' Urban Design International 18, (2) 131-144 Publisher Site , DOI
2008 'What you don't see is (also) what you get: Invisible flows and the shaping of media-rich cities' JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING RESEARCH 25, (2) 106-117
2006 'New technologies, same dilemmas: Policy and design issues for the augmented city' JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY 13, (3) 5-28 , DOI
2005 'Tensions in the Digital City' Town and Country Planning 143-145
2005 'Competing Urban Visions and the Shaping of the Digital City' Knowledge, Technology and Policy 18, (1) 12-26
2005 'Urban cyberspace as a social construction: non-technological factors in the shaping of Digital Bristol' DIGITAL CITIES III 3081, 97-112
2005 'World digital cities: Beyond heterogeneity' DIGITAL CITIES III 3081, 188-+
2000 'Digital city or urban simulator?' DIGITAL CITIES 1765, 33-44
1997 'Virtual cities, social polarization, and the crisis in urban public space' JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY 4, (1) 19-52 , DOI
1997 'Urbanising Cyberspace? The Nature and Potential of the Virtual Cities Movement' City 7-8, 18-38
Books
2020 Shaping Smart for Better Cities Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies. Academic Press
2008 Augmented urban spaces. Ashgate Pub Co
2008 Augmented urban spaces: Articulating the physical and electronic city.
2008 Planning challenges in the augmented city.
2005 Making the digital city. Ashgate Pub Co
Chapters
2020 'Designing Smart Places: towards a holistic, recombinant approach' Shaping Smart for Better Cities Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies Academic Press , DOI Open access
2020 'Introducing Shaping Smart for Better Cities' Shaping Smart for Better Cities Rethinking and Shaping Relationships between Urban Space and Digital Technologies Academic Press , DOI Open access
2020 'Designing the city as a place or product? How space is marginalised in the smart city' in Willis KS; Aurigi A The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities Routledge , DOI Open access
2020 'Towards an agenda of place, local agency-based and inclusive smart urbanism' The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities Open access
2017 'Space is not a platform - foregrounding place in smart urban design' in Zammit A; Kenna T Enhancing Places Through Technologies: Proceedings from the ICiTy conference, Valletta, Malta - 18-19 April, 2016 7-18 Publisher Site
2016 'From 'digital' to 'smart': upgrading the city' in Tomitsch M; Haeusler M MAB Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Media Architecture Biennale New York, USA ACM Publisher Site , DOI Open access
2016 'No need to fix: Strategic inclusivity in developing and managing the smart city' in Caldwell Amayo G; Smith C; Clift E Digital Futures and the City of Today Bristol Intellect 9-27 Open access
2010 'The Advancement of World Digital Cities' Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Springer US 939-958 , DOI
2009 'U-City: Keeping Space and Place in the Picture' in Lee SH Ubiquitous City: Future of City, City of Future Daejeon, Korea Hanbat National University Press
2008 'Epilogue: Towards Designing Augmented Places' in Aurigi A; Cindio FD Augmented urban spaces Ashgate Pub Co 331-350
2008 'Introduction: Augmented urban spaces' 1-3
2006 'Interpretare la Citta’, Progettare la Telematica' in Montanari F Territorio dell'impresa, territorio della rete, territori digitali Firenze Aida 141-165
2001 'Spazi virtuali e sfera pubblica: verso la citta’ digitale partecipativa' in Fistola R M. E-tropolis. Funzioni, innovazioni, trasformazioni della città Napoli Giannini Editore 57-87
2001 'Spazi virtuali e sfera pubblica: verso la citta’ digitale partecipativa' in Fistola R M. E-tropolis. Funzioni, innovazioni, trasformazioni della città Napoli Giannini Editore 57-87
2000 'Cyberspace and the City: The ‘Virtual City’ in Europe' in Bridge G; Watson S A companion to the city Wiley-Blackwell 489-502
1998 'The ‘crisis’ in the urban public realm' in Loader B Cyberspace divide Psychology Press 57-80
Conference Papers
2016 'Linking Public Spaces and Online Networks: A Case Study
of a Regional Neighbourhood' Digital Cities 8: Communities and Technologies 2013 Munich 6-/-0/20137-/-0/2013Open access
2013 'Beyond the digital city - Remediating space at a regional scale' Media City 2013 Buffalo, NY 5-/-0/20135-/-0/2013Open access
2012 'Developing a Locative Engagement Toolkit' Media Architecture Biennale 2013 Aarhuus, Denmark 1-/-1/20131-/-1/2012New York, NY, USA ACM 75-78 , DOI
2011 'Hybrid Spaces:
Presence, Rhythms and Performativity' 2011 Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Environments Nottingham 7-/-0/20117-/-0/2011IEEE 100-106 Publisher Site , DOI
2006 'Why is it so hard to integrate ICT into the Planning agenda?' CORP 2006 - Sustainable Solutions for the Information Society - 11th International Conference on Urban Planning and Spatial Development for the Information Society Vienna 2-/-0/20062-/-0/2006143-152
2002 'Dealing With the Digital City of... Which Future?' in Braz R; Furtado G Arquitectura e Sociedade da Informacao University of Porto 6-/-0/20026-/-0/2002Porto University of Porto 82-87