Keynote Lectures

  • 2024 / Pratt Institute, International Symposium + Workshop “Public Space Challenges: from theory to practice to policy”, co-organized by City Space Architecture and Pratt Urban Placemaking and Management, New York, April 25-27.
  • 2023 / Fus-ha Webinars: HIWAR organized by Œcumene Spaces For Dignity (online), July 4.
  • 2022 / UCLG – United Cities and Local Governments, World Assembly, side event ‘The Right to the City as an accelerator for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda” promoted by the Global Platform for the Right to the City and HIC – Habitat international Coalition in the framework of the UN High Level Meeting, New York, April 27.
  • 2021 / European sociological association (ESA), international conference, Semi-Plenary 07: “Public Spaces after Covid-19: Building Alternative Knowledges for the Future”, August 31 – September 3 (online).
  • 2021 / Future of Urban Public Spaces, International conference, promoted by Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, December 8-10 (online).
  • 2020 / Cosmopolitan Habitat Workshop & Symposium, organized by the Institute of Urban Design and Planning of Leibniz Universität Hannover in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo, funded by DAAD German Academic Exchange Service, November  6 / December 17 (online).
  • 2020 / Arte Polis 8 conference “Creative Society and Making of Place: Redefining Space in the Digital Era”, organized by the School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institut Teknologi Bandung, September 3 (online).
  • 2019 / Green Building Council South Africa “Beyond. Shaping cities of tomorrow”, Cape Town, October 2-4.
  • 2019 / Croatian Chamber of Architects ‘The Days of Architects 3.0″, Split, Croatia, April 4-6.
  • 2018 / Centre for Built Environment (India), International Conference on Urban Conservation, Kolkata, November 26-28 (online).
  • 2018 / 2nd Saudi Urban Forum, promoted by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in cooperation with UN-Habitat, Riyadh, October 15-17.
  • 2018 / RMIT University, School of Art, Seminar “Reimagining Cityscapes & Mindscapes: perspectives from Italy and Australia”, included in CAST – Conversations on Art, Design and Social Practice – OUT LOUD, Melbourne, June 19.
  • 2018 / University of Sydney, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Australia, international seminar “Design at Dusk”, Sydney, May 30.
  • 2017 / The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 10th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), The Entrepreneurial City, hosted at the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December 14-16.

New European Bauhaus: Regenerating the City of Tomorrow

Italian Architecture Festival “RIGENERA – Fare Con”, Palazzo Baroni, Reggio Emilia, 22 September 2022.
Keynote lecture: “The Public City: Social Infrastructures and Welfare Society” by Luisa Bravo