Knitting Food: Food and Eco-textiles: New Perspectives for Sustainable Urban Production Systems

About Giorgia TucciManuel Gausa

Manuel Gausa is Full Professor in Advanced Urban Planning and Urban Design (DAD-Department of Architecture and Design) and coordinator of ADD-UNIGE Doctorate School in Architecture and Design at the University of Genoa. He is Co-founder and Dean of IAAC-Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Barcelona (2012-2015) Director of the journal Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1991-2000) and co-founder of the Actar group. He is also scientific coordinator of the GicLab research group at dAD UniGe. His research focuses on the themes of urban-territorial perspective and architecture and landscape as multi-scalar systems-devices. Manuel Gausa is full professor in Advanced Urban Planning and Urban Design (DAD-Department of Architecture and Design) and coordinator of ADD-UNIGE Doctorate School in Architecture and Design at the University of Genoa. He is Co-founder and Dean of IAAC-Institut of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya Barcelona (2012-2015) Director of the journal Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1991-2000) and co-founder of the Actar group. He is also scientific coordinator of GicLab research group at dAD UniGe. His research focus on the themes of urban-territorial perspective and architecture and landscape as multi-scalar systems-devices.   Giorgia Tucci is Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Department of Architecture and Design (dAD) University of Genoa. Her research has mainly focused on the study of coastal agricultural cities in the Mediterranean on the relationship in the provision of ecosystem services between coast and hinterland on indicators identifying the character of territorial innovation and on new cycles of food waste reuse from biomaterials to bioproducts. She has been a guest lecturer at the Universidad de Málaga UMA-eAM' (2017) Leibniz Universität Hannover LUH (2019) and the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia IAAC. (2020). Since 2016 she has been the coordinator of the European project activities and management of the GicLab research group.