Among Chuan-tzu’s many skills, he was an expert draftsman.
The king asked him to draw a crab. Chuang-tzu replied that he needed five years, a country house, and twelve servants.
Five years later the drawing was still not begun. ”I need another five years,” said Chuang-tzu.
The king granted them. At the end of these ten years, Chuang-tzu took up his brush and, in an instant, with a single stroke, he drew a crab, the most perfect crab ever seen.”
Italo Calvino, On Quickness
from Six Memos for the Next Millennium
My main interests concern urban and landscape wide-ranging analysis and representation, computer applications to visual simulation, urban morphology and typology, comparative urban studies, survey of urban structures, qualitative representation, participatory and collaborative planning and mapping, relational geography, actor-network theory, drawing theory, urban theory, crowdsourcing, location-based content generation tools, GIS.
I’m Contract Professor at School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
in the research field of Urban & Environmental Analysis and Representation.
Here my official web-page.
> 2011
- Research Fellowship
“Enhancing the local heritage using web oriented and crowdsourced mapping tools”,
Politecnico di Milano, (DiAP)
in partnership with NextMove Internet Innovation and Regione Lombardia
- Contract Professor in Urban Modeling,
I School of Architecture,DiAP, Politecnico di Milano
> 2010
- Research Fellowship
“ Tools formapping and drawing shared urban landscapes and visualizing e-participation”,
Politecnico di Milano, (DiAP) in partnership with EUMM
- Contract Professor in Urban Modeling ,
Faculty of Architecture and Society,DiAP Politecnico di Milano
> 2009
- Research Fellowship
“Methods of representation in planning practices and participation”,
Politecnico di Milano, (DiAP)
- Memeber of scientific board,
Urban Community Ecomuseum North Milan (EUMM)
> 2008
- PhD in Urban and Enviromental Planning,
Department of Architecture and Planning (DiAP), Politecnico di Milano
Dissertation: “The renewal in the processes of knowledge: describing and representing complex urban territories. The milanese metropolitan region: a case study”.
” Il rinnovamento nei processi di conoscenza: descivere e rappresentare i territori urbani complessi. Il caso della regione metropolitana milanese”
Tutors: Rossella Salerno, Alessandro Balducci
XX Ciclo, Dottorato in Pianificazione Urbana Ambientale e Territoriale
> 2007
- Contract Professor in Urban Analysis and Representation,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
> 2006
- Contract Professor in Urban Analysis and Representation,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
- Collaboration with Urban Simulation Lab. chair: Peter Bosselmann,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
> 2005
- Contract Professor in Urban Analysis and Representation,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
- PhD Candite Urban and Enviromental Planning,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
winner of the Politecnico scolarship
> 2004
- Contract Professor in Representation Techniques,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
> 2001
- Degree in Architecture,
Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano
Degree Dissertation: ” Strada Statale 36 Nuova Vallassina, una ipotesi ermenutica”
Tutor: Vittorio Ugo
> 1972
- Born between the lakes and Alps of Northern Italy