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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Geoffrey Grulois, co-editor, is Professor of Urbanism and coordinator of LoUIsE
– Laboratory on Urbanism, Infrastructure and Ecologies at the Faculty of Architecture
of Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His teaching and research explores the
intersections of urbanism, ecology, and metabolism. In 2014, he co-edited UpCycle
Barcelona: Cogenerative Design Strategies for a Sustainable Urban Metabolism
(Erasmus Intensive Program). He is the general coordinator of the Erasmus+ Strategic
Partnership Integrated Urban Design E-studio for XXIth Century Sustainable
Metropolitan Regions (metropolitan-estudio.eu), which resulted in this publication.
He is currently the coordinator of the new specialized master’s degree in transition
urbanism at the ULB.
Carles Crosas, co-editor, is PhD Architect and Lecturer at Barcelona School
of Architecture (ETSAB—UPC). He has taught Urbanism at DUOT-UPC since 2001,
and is a former collaborator with and teaching assistant for Professor Manuel de
Solà-Morales. Now a researcher at the Barcelona Laboratory of Urbanism, he is
UPC National Coordinator in various international projects on urban design teaching,
collective urban spaces, urban ecology, and metabolism, and co-organizes the
activities in the framework of Integrated Urban Design E-studio for XXIth Century
Sustainable Metropolitan Regions, which has been developing various scale urban
designs in its professional portfolio since 2004.
Maria Chiara Tosi, co-editor, is Professor of Urbanism and a member of the
Board of the PhD School at IUAV University of Venice. She is an expert for the panel
W&T9 at FWO-Research Foundation Flanders and member of URBES, a Sino-Italian
research center. Recently, her teaching and research have explored the relationship
between urban space and welfare policies. Her recent books include Welfare Spaces
(2014) and Towards an Atlas of European Delta Landscapes (2014). She is co-coordinator
of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Integrated Urban Design E-studio for
XXIth Century Sustainable Metropolitan Regions, which resulted in this publication.
Andrea Bortolotti is an architect and currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty
of Architecture La Cambre-Horta in Brussels (ULB). His main research interests
concern urban metabolism, ecology, and their relation to urban design theory and
practice. Currently, he works within the Metrolab Brussels ERDF project (ULB/UCL)
and for the Brussels Environmental Agency (IBGE) on the issue of urban waste and
waste management in the Brussels Region.
Elsa Bouillot is a French architect who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture
of Université libre de Bruxelles. Passionate about architecture and urban planning
on all scales, she has participated in the Erasmus Intensive Program UpCycle