Arch. Emanuele Sommariva Ph.D.

Architect, PhD, University Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Urban Design and Planning of Leibniz Universität Hannover, since 2012. Visiting scholar at Technische Universität München (2011) and Universiteit Antwerpen (2018). In 2017 obtained the Italian Academic Qualification – Associate Professorship for Academic Recruitment Field: 08/F1 Urban and Territorial Planning and Design and 08/D1 Architectural Design. 

His research interests include urban design and settlement dynamics, sustainable regional planning, and the relationship between agriculture and the city. Scientific manager of the Creative EU ‘Creative Food Cycles’ (2018-20) the BMBF research Regiobranding (2017-19). Member of the PRIN Recycle Italy (2012–16). 

Since 2009, at the Department of Architecture and Design of the University of Genoa, he has contributed to teaching and collaborated for research projects (COST Urban Allotment EU 2012–16; EU MED 2011–13; Interreg-Maritime INNOLABS 2011). Recent publications: Creating City. Urban Agriculture. Strategies for City Resilience (Trento, ListLab, 2015); ‘Cultivar Ciudades’ in: Ecologías Emergentes (Santiago de Chile, Sa Cabana 2016); ‘Urban Productive Landscapes’ in: Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post-Professional Era (Basel, Springer, 2018); ‘Rural Response to Migration: New Integration Models for Abandoned Villages in Italy’ in: Graz Architecture Magazine n.15 ‘Territorial Justice’(Berlin, Jovis 2019).