Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture

My current fields of interest are communicative planning, argumentation, epistemology and knowledge management in planning, and multi-locality in working and living. Together with my post-doctoral researcher Mina di Marino and vmWork-team in the School of Science, we are currently working in a project CityWorkLife, which studies working in public and semi-private spaces, such as libraries, coffee shops and public open spaces. In my personal projects, I am studying the role of knowledge and knowledge management in planning, derived from a critique of Polanyi and Nonaka. My new project is to study communication and knowledge in the new City Plan of Helsinki.

Where do you come from?

I have graduated from the University of Turku as Master of Philosophy in 1980 and Licentiate of Philosophy in 1985, my major being theoretical philosophy and my minors practical philosophy, economics, and history and theory of art. I graduated as MSc (architecture) in 1989, and PhD (architecture, urban planning) in 1993 from Tampere University of Technology. I have worked as a planning consultant for the State planning agency in Vaasa, and owner and planner in the privat architecture and engineering office Plan-Ark Ltd in 1989-1993. In 1993-1996 I worked as the Principal Investigator in the project Ecopolis, funded by the Academy of Finland. In 1997-1999 I was the Research Director of the Centre of Urban and Regional Studies in the Helsinki University of Technology, and from 1999 I have worked as professor of urban and regional planning at the Department of Architectrure, first in Helsinki University of Technology (until 2009), and in Aalto University since then.

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Speakers:

\\ Aija Staffans, Aalto University Helsinki
Decline of urban spaces (critical comments on some high-rise development in Helsinki)

\\ Kyttä Marketta, Aalto University Helsinki
 Human aspects and urban open spaces

\\ Arlinda Sheqiri, Politecnico di Milano
New perspective for urban open spaces

Keywords: urban green spaces, open spaces design, urban planning, health & well-being

The seminar will explore the influence of open space design on the planning practices, shifting the urban question from the form of the built environment to the performance of the connections and the links that the design and the project can produce.

Speakers:

\\ Maria Alessandra Secchi, Politecnico di Milano
Voluntary Geography. Recent planning studies in the Swiss city

\\ Andrea Arcidiacono, Silvia Ronchi, Politecnico di Milano
River Ecological corridor in the Milan metropolitan area. Project Volare, Southern Lambro

\\ Antonio Longo, Politecnico di Milano
The openess of open spaces

Discussant: Cristina Catalanotti, Yiquing Zaho

Keywords: open spaces design, urban planning, regional and metropolitan networks

Ha partecipato come progettista a numerose esperienze di ricerca applicata all’interno del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione in convenzione con numerosi enti e comuni tra i quali Seregno, Jesi, San Donato Milanese e la Provincia di Milano. Ha fatto parte della commissione edilizia del Comune di Seregno. Attualmente fa parte della commissione edilizia e del gruppo di valutazione Programmi Integrati di Intervento del comune di San Donato Milanese.