Valentina Orioli

Architect and PhD, Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna. Previously Deputy Mayor of Bologna in charge of New Mobility, Infrastructures, Local Public Transport, 30 km/h City, Protection of cultural heritage and historic gardens. In the mandate 2016-21, she was Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Real Estate, Environment, Protection and regeneration of the historical city and candidacy of Bologna’s “Porticoes” for the UNESCO World Heritage List, Climate Pact, and vice-mayor from 2020. Her teaching and research activities are aimed at the knowledge and experimentation of tools for the design and governance of urban transformations, in a perspective that focuses on the quality of urban space and its regeneration. She is President of Urban@it, a National center for urban policy studies based at the University of Bologna. She participates in the Board of the Doctorate in Service Design for Public Sector (SDPS) at Sapienza University in Rome. Author of various publications, one of her most recent works is Praticare l'urbanistica. Traiettorie tra innovazione sociale e pianificazione, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2023, pp. 136 (with M. Massari).

 

Martina Massari

Architect and PhD in Urban Planning. Currently Junior assistant professor in Urban Planning at the architecture Department of the University of Bologna. She has been a Research Fellow at the Chair for Regional Building and Urban Planning at the Leibniz University of Hannover. She is part of the “TRACE Team” and the “Collaborative and Adaptive Cities” research groups of the university of Bologna. She has contributed to more than 14 European projects, including Horizon 2020, European Urban Initiatives, and Horizon Europe. Her research and practice interests originate from her PhD thesis, which explored the role of “intermediate places” between social innovation practices and urban planning in Bologna, Barcelona and Berlin. She brings this perspective into her projects, particularly by developing research-action methodologies for public engagement and strengthening connections between research and local territories. Author of various publications in national and international journals.