Future
Urban Legacy
Lab

Mauro Berta

Mauro Berta, architect Ph.D., associate professor of Architectural and Urban Design and head of Design of the China Room at the Politecnico di Torino. He works mainly on urban regeneration and sustainable design. He has been visiting researcher and lecturer in several universities in China and Japan; scientific responsible and visiting professor of the Dual […]

Paolo Mellano

Paolo Mellano, architect, is full professor of Architectural and Urban Composition at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic University of Turin, which he directed from 2015 to 2024. He teaches on the Master’s Degree Courses in Architecture and the PhD programme in ‘Architecture. History and Design’, coordinates research funded by public and […]

Didem Turk

Didem Turk is a city planner and PhD candidate in the Architecture History and Project at Politecnico di Torino. Her background is urban planning and urban design. She received her bachelor’s degree in Middle East Technical University (METU) from the City and Regional Planning Department. She pursued her Master degree in Urban Design at METU […]

Adriano Aimar

Adriano Aimar is an architect graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano as an alumnus of the Alta Scuola Politecnica. His master thesis has been developed within FULL and it explored the non-spatial relationships among urban venues based on the analysis of Instagram social urban data. His research work has been focusing […]

Ilaria Tonti

Architect and PhD candidate in Architecture. History and Project at Politecnico di Torino, supported by two Interdepartmental Centres: FULL (The Future Urban Legacy Lab) and PIC4SeR (PoliTO Interdipartimental Centre for Service Robotics). Her research focuses on the permanence of temporariness in post-earthquake emergencies in Italian territories through design and geomatic tools. She studied architecture between […]

Natalia Bonilla

Natalia Bonilla finished her major in Architecture at the Universidad de Costa Rica, Natalia gained experience for two years in design and construction as a junior architect in the San José based firm Grupo Térraba. In 2015, she undertook the masters joint programme PLANET Europe, part of Erasmus+, between Radboud Universiteit (Netherlands) and Cardiff University […]

Emanuele Protti

Emanuele Protti is an architect and Ph.D. student in Architecture History and Design at Politecnico di Torino. He collaborated with Carlo Ratti Associati, Plateau Collaboratif, UdA Marcante-Testa. In 2016, he won in collaboration with Plateau Collaboratif the international competition for the redevelopment of the industrial sector Pasubio in Parma. He lives and works in Turin. […]

Caterina Montipò

Caterina Montipò is an architect and PhD candidate at the Politecnico di Torino. She graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a master thesis about the relationship between industrial architecture and agricultural landscape. She worked as a freelance architect in Chile and Italy (2013-2015) for different architectural and landscape design practices. She was the course […]

Michele Barale

Michele F. Barale is a journalist and a PhD candidate in Architecture, History and Design. He graduated in Architecture at Polytechnic of Torino, with a master thesis concerning typo-morphology research developed at Forma Urbis Lab in Lisboa (FAUL). Since may 2018 he is editor of In_bo journal (University of Bologna). Active in dissemination of local, […]

Silvia Cafora

Silvia Cafora, architect, PhD student at the Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic of Turin. She carries out research activities mainly in the field of community-led housing models and territorial fragilities with a focus on community practices and regenerative access to the building-housing heritage. She graduated in sustainable architecture dealing with informal spaces […]

Ludovica Rolando

Ludovica Rolando is an architect and PhD student in History of Architecture and Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin. She studied Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin and UCL Université Catholique de Louvain. She has collaborated with TeamMinus, Beijing (2016) and Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Barcelona (2019/2020). She is currently focusing on contemporary housing […]

Valerio Palma

Valerio holds a master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Roma Tre (2016). He has been a research fellow at the ReLOAD Lab of the University of Padova (2016-2016), dealing with interoperable digital models for architectural cultural heritage. His work at FULL focuses on the use of quantitative models and digital […]

Future
Urban Legacy
Lab

FULL è un centro di ricerca del Politecnico di Torino. Esploriamo, immaginiamo e progettiamo il futuro del territorio e del patrimonio urbano.

@OGR Tech – Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino – Italy
full@polito.it

Future
Urban Legacy
Lab

FULL is a research center of the Politecnico di Torino. We explore, imagine and design the future of the territory and of the urban legacies.

@OGR Tech – Corso Castelfidardo, 22
10128 Torino – Italy
full@polito.it