Dynamics of Periphery

Giulia Garbarini. Architect, master’s degree from the University of Genoa in 2013. Since 2014,
PhD candidate in environmental engineering at the University of Trento, with a doctoral scholarship
in the 30th cycle. Her thesis is entitled Smart Landscapes: The Architecture of the “Micro Smart
Grid” as a Resilience Strategy for Landscape. Since 2014, teaching assistant for the course landscape
architecture, University of Trento. In 2017, visiting scientist at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Manuel Gausa Navarro. Architect, PhD. Full Professor of landscape architecture and urbanism
at the Department of Architecture and Design DDA of the University of Genoa. Director of GIC-
Lab (Genoa Intelligent Contexts Laboratory), a research laboratory of urban and regional design
at DAD, that carries out national and international research projects. The Lab aims to explore and
integrate the complex, articulate and celebrate diversity, and promote and give impetus to a multilevel
interaction to design new spaces and transversal scenarios (territorial, urban, landscape architectural,
and social) with a new relational logic (open) and informational (advanced). His projects
have included: MED.NET.COAST: Network identity of Mediterranean cities; RE-CYCLE: Reactivation
Strategies and Urban Landscape; UNIVER(C)TY: The Urban Role of the University System;
LANDSCAPES INFRASTRUCTURE: Infrastructure Osmotic Over Sector Policies. In 2012-2015
he has been Academic and Scientific Director (Dean) of IAAC Insitute of Advanced Architecture of
Catalonia. Since 2015 he is lead professor in theory and advanced knowledge studies, IAAC-TAK,
and member of the scientific committee as IAAC-Founder.
Sarah Hartmann. Architect, university researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Urban Design and
Planning of Leibniz Universität Hannover, since 2012. Architectural studies at Universität Stuttgart
and Technische Universität München TUM, diploma from TUM 2012. For her thesis she has been
awarded with the ALR Bayern award. 2010–12 researcher for the European project AlpHouse,
2012–15 researcher for the European project AlpBC Alpine Building Culture. In 2012 collaboration
with RicciSpaini office for architecture and urbanism in Rome. Co-director of the workshop Urban
Elements (2014) in the sessions programme of the Biennale of Venice. PhD candidate at the Faculty
of Architecture and Landscape Sciences of LUH, with a thesis entitled Monuments of Everyday
Life: Interplays of City, Infrastructure, and Architecture in São Paulo.
Antonio Ippolito. Architect and engineer, PhD candidate in cities and landscapes at the University
of Basilicata in Matera. He is also co-founder of Are_lab integrated architecture. His work is
concentred on the identification of new strategies for urban regeneration through the paradigm of
Nature_City for sustainable urban development.
Barbara Lino. Architect, PhD, university researcher in urban planning at the Department of Architecture
of the University of Palermo. She writes about cities, suburban regeneration, and local
development strategies. She is member of the SicaniLab, the local development laboratory of
the Sicani Interior Area in Sicily, and has been involved in research projects as PRIN "Re-cycle
Italy”. She also collaborated in applied research, most recently for the Palermo strategic plan, the
Palermo Port master plan, the management plan for the Arab-Norman Palermo, Monreale and
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