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OPENTalks
ABCPhD organizes occasional meetings with successful experts,
specialists and reseearchers (and other events).
The AIM? NETWORKING and CULTURAL EXCHANGE
and other ABCPhD social events

ABCPhD OPENTalks 2018
M.BONANOMI and J.HUNHEVICZ (ETHZ)
Wednesday December 19th, 14h00
AULA GAMMA Building 11 (close to SPAZIO MOSTRE)
Marcella Bonanomi is Research Associate of Innovative and
Industrial Construction, Department of Civil, Environmental
and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG), Institute of
Construction and Infrastructure Management (IBI) and an
International expert in optimization of digital processes and
digital transformation strategies.
The overarching goal of Jens Hunhevicz, PhD Candidate at
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Eng. is to
investigate the appli-cations and implementation of blockchain
in construction management for better supply chain
integration and transparency in the future AEC industry.
THE ROLE OF BLOCKCHAIN
IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY 4.0

ABCPhD POSTER SESSION 2018
Thursday, November 29th, 11h00
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 11, SPAZIO CATERING
[between SPAZIO MOSTRE and AULA ROGERS]

ABCPhD
ADVISORY BOARD MEETING 2018
Wednesday, November 28th, 11h30
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 05, AULA CASTIGLIANO
11h30 - 13h00: first meeting with the Board of
Professors - Aula CASTIGLIANO (in this meeting,
the five members of our AB present themselves +
a short presentation of ABCPhD Program is given)
ABCPhD
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 14, AULA CONSIGLIO
15h00 - 17h00: PARALLEL MEETINGS: Advisory - Board versus ABCPhD
AB Members meet the PhD Candidates and the ABC professors who explain
them what they are doing, exchanging ideas about their experience
ABCPhD
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 14, AULA DIDATTICA
ABCPhD
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 15, AULA MENOUNO (bunker)
ABCPhD
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 14, AULA CONSIGLIO
16h00: Conclusion
ABMembers meet the ABCPhD Program with their notes and advices
(ABMembers are expected to give their evaluation, notes and tips for
the progress of the ABCPhD Program)

PAOLO GARDONI
Tuesday 20 November , 12h00
CAMPUS LEONARDO Building 14, First story. Aula Consiglio
Paolo Gardoni graduated at Politecnico di Milano
in 1997 and currently is a Professor and
Excellence Faculty Scholar in the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is
the Director of the MAE Center that focuses on
creating a Multi-hazard Approach to Engineering,
and the Associate Director of the NIST-funded
Center of Excellence for Risk-based Community
Resilience Planning. He is the founder and
Editor-in-Chief of the international journal
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure published
by Taylor and Francis Group. He is a member of
the Board of Directors of the International Civil
Engineering Risk and Reliability Association
(CERRA), of the Advisory Council of the
International Forum on Engineering Decision
Making (IFED), and of a number of national and
international committees and associations that
focus on risk and reliability analysis.
Promoting Societal Well-being by
Designing Sustainable and Resilient
Infrastructure

THE CONCEPT OF PROPORTION AND HARMONY IN CHINESE CULTURE
A lesson by Bettina Mottura, uniMI
NOVEMBER 14th, 11.30 – Aula CASTIGLIANO, ABC Dept. building 5 – Campus Leonardo
Bettina MOTTURA is associate
professor of Lingue e Letterature
della Cina (LOR21) at uniMI,
Dipartimento di Scienze della
Mediazione linguistica e di Studi
interculturali

THE FUTURE IS OVERSOLD AND UNDER-IMAGINED
Chris Luebkeman, ARUP
15th OCTOBER, 14.30 – Aula Consiglio, ABC Dept. ed. 14
Arup Fellow and Director of Global
Foresight, Research + Innovation
Chris leads the Global Foresight,
Research and Innovation group at
Arup – a think-tank and consultancy
within Arup’s global engineering and
design firm. Educated as a geologist,
structural engineer and architect he is
considered a bridge builder of many
kinds. Chris’ interest in the built
environment blossomed early,
propelling him to pursue a multi-
faceted education, beginning with
engineering and culminating in a
Doctorate in Architecture from ETH in
Zurich and followe by teaching
positions at several prestigious
universities. In 1999, Chris joined Arup
as the Co-Director for Research and
Development. A couple of years later,
he formed the Foresight, Innovation
and Incubation team, which has
evolved to its present form as
Foresight + Research + Innovation.
Chris Luebkeman will speak to global issues, insights and innovations that are shaping our
communal future. He will focus on how our future has been oversold and under-imagined
highlighting those trends we see as shaping our future built environment. Considering
that the architect, engineer and designer’s role in society has always been to create
spaces and places to thrive. Motivating us all to be active participants in shaping our built
future

BIM-FOCUSED RECENT RESEARCH TRENDS & POLICIES
BIM, as an acronym, is slowly moving from Information to Datum. In spite of appearances, it does
not sound as a paradox, because it means that structured data will play a crucial role as a key
driver and game changer agent. Such a strand is totally consistent with the AECO Industry’s
digital evolution. Consequently, research programmes need to be interwoven with public policies.
The transformational and disruptive changes do happen the moment when the Industry (of the
Built Environment) is tremendously widening its own scope.
September, 28, 2018, 11:00 (Friday) – Aula Castigliano, Bldg. 5 – CAMPUS LEONARDO
ANTÓNIO AGUIAR COSTA & MOHAMAD KASSEM
Mohamad Kassem is Associate Professor at Northumbria University. He investigates the
economical, social and environmental fallouts of digital transformation and digitalisation
opportunities and challenges for Built Environment industry and its projects. With his work,
he supports policy makers in developing digital transformation strategies.
António Aguiar Costa is Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon.
His major research interests are information management and integration in construction,
BIM implementation and standardization and BIM-based e-procurement. He is principal
investigator in several research initiatives and projects.

25 September, 14:00 (TUESDAY) – Aula Consiglio ABC
Building 14 – CAMPUS LEONARDO
MAIBRITT PEDERSEN ZARI
REGENERATIVE DESIGN AND ECOSYSTEM BIOMIMICRY
The definition of cutting edge sustainable architecture is changing
rapidly. It is becoming clear however, that buildings will need to go
beyond having little negative environmental impact in the future, to
having net positive environmental benefits. Dr Pedersen Zari argues
the concept of regenerative design and how cross-semination
between ecology, biology and architecture could provide solutions to
climatic, biodiversity, and human wellbeing challenges of the future
and potentially alter the urban habitats that surround us into softer
or more organic and symbiotic environments.
Maibritt Pedersen Zari is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand. Her research investigates the role of emulating
ecosystems in order to change design goals from sustainable to
regenerative development. She works with the integration of complex
social factors into sustainable architectural design.
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RETHINKING URBAN CONSERVATION IN THE 21ST
CENTURY: TOWARDS EQUITABLE OUTCOMES
Urban conservation is at a crossroads. While traditional conser-
vation practice emphasizes architectural values, contemporary
approaches prioritize sociocultural and economic values, parti-
cularly in low -income communities. Dr Cheong argues for a
reevaluation of traditional, fabric-centered preservation appro-
aches in changing historic neighborhoods via the integration of
community-based planning tools such as community capital,
affordable housing provisions and economic integration.
Caroline Cheong is Assistant Professor at the University of Central
Florida. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban
heritage conservation and economic development, values-based
conservation management, conservation economics and poverty
reduction.
24 September, 15:00 (Monday) – Aula Consiglio ABC
CAROLINE CHEONG
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MARCIO NASCIMENTO de OLIVEIRA
Marcio Nascimento de Oliveira: BArch at the University of Brasilia (1991)
MArch at McGill University (1997), he has worked extensively as a
consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Health in several projects since
1999, including the coordination of the SOMASUS Project.
PhD Candidate in Psychology at the Catholic University of Brasilia,
professor at UFBA and private institutions (AEA, INBEC and IPO), he is
the former President (2014-2017) of the Brazilian Association for the
Development of the Hospital Building (ABDEH), coordinates the
Graduate course of Architecture and Urbanism and the Specialization
course in Healthcare Systems and Architecture at the Catholic University
of Brasilia – UCB and is consultant for the United Nations Office for
Projects – UNOPS in the field of hospital architecture
The meeting, organized by Stefano Capolongo and Marta Dell’Ovo,
aims at sharing and promoting knowledges and professional
experiences about healthcare architecture in Latin America and in
particular in Brazil. The talk will investigate current public policies in the
health sector and case studies with the purpose of contributing to the
definition of guidelines able to support architects, planners and
decision makers for the design of healthcare facilities.
Brazilian Healthcare Architecture: History, trends and perspectives
September 20th, 15h 30 (Thursday) aula S.1.1 Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32

TAVOLA ROTONDA
LIMITI SEMANTICI E MEDIAZIONE LINGUISTICA TRA ITALIA E CINA
NELLA RICERCA SULL’ARCHITETTURA
con ALESSANDRA LAVAGNINO, direttore dell’Istituto Confucio e BETTINA MOTTURA, coord. del
Contemporary Asia Research Centre dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, docenti di Lingue e Letteratura cinese
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The book “Architecture of urban-rural continuum in China. Hakka settlements in eastern Guan
aims to rise up some methodological questions in investigation on Chinese contemporary conte
June 19th
, 17h00 - Aula Consiglio, Building 14, ABC Dept., Campus LE
RICCARDO PALMA (Politecnico di Torino), CHEN ZHEN (Politecnic
by MAURIZIO MERIGGI
This OPENTalk takes the occasion of the presentation of the Maurizio Meriggi’s last book (L’architettura del continuo
urbano-rurale in Cina. Insediamenti Hakka nel Guangdong Orientale, Arabafenice, 2018) to face two basic questions.
The first question will be about Chinese urban development: “Is Traditional Chinese Settlement in non-urban contexts just
a collection of ”vernacular traditions” or the expression of an historical form of Chinese urbanization”?
The second question will be about research methodology in architecture: “How the classic type/morphology/ territory
analysis is applicable to this particular urbanisation form?”
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE URBAN-RURAL CONTINUUM IN CHINA
with RICCARDO PALMA (PoliTO), CHEN ZHEN and MAURIZIO MERIGGI (PoliMI)
June 19th, 17h00 – Aula Consiglio, Building 14, ABC Dept., Campus LEONARDO
Riccardo Palma, associate professor in
Architectural and Urban design, is
member of the DASP PhD Program
@PoliTO
Maurizio Meriggi, associate professor
in Architectural and Urban design
@PoliMI has a long consultancy and
professional experience on the field, with
many Chinese administrations.
Chen Zhen teaches Urban and
architectural design in China @PoliMI

Mitja Košir is assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and deputy head of Chair of Buildings and
Constructional Complexes. His research focuses on building energy performance, daylighting (coupled thermal and visual
performances) and adaptive building envelopes. Currently, he is working on bioclimatic climate analysis, with a particular
focus on building climate adaptability, and visiting researcher at PoliMi.
This OPENTalk will focus on research in bioclimatic, adaptable buildings and try to answer to the following questions:
“Can the low-tech, Bioclimatic design approach, be reconciled with the second, High-Performance, high-tech, approach”?
“What will be the implications of projected climate change”?
HIGH-PERFORMANCE, BIOCLIMATIC BUILDINGS
with MITJA KOŠIR, June 13th, 17h00 – Aula Consiglio, Building 14, ABC Dept., Campus LEONARDO

OCCUPANT-CENTRIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION
with SALVATORE CARLUCCI, June 13th, 15h15 – Aula Consiglio, Bld.14, ABC Dept. Campus LEONARDO
NNARX-type
Control System
Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 3
Parameters’ synthesis
Currently, his research interests are devoted to better understand and
describe aleatory uncertainties in BPS (i.e. occupant behavior and
weather conditions) and to support building professionals to design
high-performance buildings through an informed use of BPS tools.
ThisOPENTalk will present BPS lab activities related to occupant-
centric modeling and simulation of buildings and urban districts.
Salvatore Carlucci is a full professor in Building Performance
Simulation (BPS) and the founder of the BPS Lab at the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (Norway).

Maurizio Maugeri, professor of atmospheric physics at
Milan University since 1991, is author of about 250
papers, about half of them in international peer-
reviewed journals.
Italy had a very relevant role in the development of
meteorological observations, documented by the
invention of some of the most important meteorolo-
gical instruments and the development of the first
network of meteo-stations, that collected an
enormous heritage of data over the last centuries.
In this OPENTalk he will present (in brief!) his 30-
years experience and researches activities, mainly
focused on the reconstruction of the evolution of the
last two centuries Italian climate (in particular, of the
Alpine Region and the Mediterranean area), the
projection of the climate signal onto any point of the
investigated area and the downscaling of the climate
scenario to the local scale.
MAURIZIO MAUGERI @polimi – June 13th, 16h00
Aula Consiglio, Bld.14, ABC Department, Campus LEONARDO
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THE PICTURESQUE
MEMORYANDIMAGINATIONINAPOINTOFVIEW
Dating back to the late 18th century, the Theory of the
Picturesque and the Character influenced architectural
thought and the then emerging debate on heritage and
preservation. Considering how these theories re-framed
the understanding of Antiquity and informed 19th and 20th
century architectural themes, this talk explores the
picturesque as a lens to understand Modernity.
Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes is Senior Lecturer in Architecture
at SAPL, Newcastle University. Fellow at the London School of
Economics, in the Catalan Observatory (UK), and Visiting
Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His research
focuses on architecture, architectural history, heritage and
experimental preservation.
22 May, 16:30 (Tuesday) – Aula Consiglio ABC
JOSEP-MARIA GARCIA-FUENTES

ROBERTO FABBRO (agakhan foundation)
ALEPPO: REPORTING FROM THE FRONT
OrganizedbyCaterinaFranco,MariacristinaLoiandCristinaPallini April 23th, 14h30
CAMPUS LEONARDO room B3

CATHERINE MAUMI @polimi (again!!)
Catherine Maumi teaches History and Cultures of
Architecture at the Grenoble School of Architecture
(ENSAG), where she coordinates the Laboratoire
Métiers de l’Histoire de l’Architecture, édifices-villes-
territoires (MHAevt).
She will present her studies, from Thomas Jefferson
and the regional planning in the USA, to Frank Lloyd
Wright and the conception of Broadacre City.
Through this path, some issues of the research in
architecture will be discussed, i.e. the need to study
the socio-political and cultural context to understand
the production of a built environment or the use of
history as a method for questioning the present.
After Catherine Maumi’s lecture, PhD students
working on closed topics are welcome to give a short
presentation on their work and results.
OrganizedbyCaterinaFranco,MariacristinaLoiandCristinaPallini
RESEARCH in Architecture
HISTORY as method
April 13th, 14h30
CAMPUS LEONARDO
Building 5, Dept. ABC
Sala Riunioni 10

ARTO KIVINIEMI
March 27th, 09h30 (Tuesday) in CAMPUS LEONARDO,
Building 15, Meeting Room – Underground Floor
Arto Kiviniemi is Professor of Digital
Architectural Design and is one of the
internationally leading experts in BIM.
He has mainly developed his
researches in Finland (VTT) and in UK
(University of Salford and University of
Liverpool).
Internationally, Arto’s main activities
have been related to the International
Alliance for Interoperability, now
known as buildingSMART International.
Arto was one of its founding members
in 1996. Currently he is a member of
the International Technical Advisory
Group. For his international merits in
developing integrated BIM, Arto
received the FIATECH CETI
Outstanding Researcher Award in
March 2009 and the Order of the
Knight of White Rose of Finland in
December 2012.
PROJECT COLLABORATION IN INTEGRATED
BIM ENVIRONMENT
Arto will present academic initiatives and research activities
focusing on advancements of ICT and implementation of BIM
within building processes. Particularly, Arto will discuss on
integrated and efficient approaches to project collaboration,
relying on both architectural knowledge and technological
progress.
After his presentation, Arto will interact with ABC PhD
candidates and, in particular, with the students of the course in
“Research in Building Process Management”.

MOHSEN ABBASI HAROFTEH @polimi
March 23th, 15h30 – Sala Riunioni 008 (2nd floor)
Dept. ABC, Building 5– Campus Leonardo
MOHSEN ABBASI HAROFTEH
is assistant professor of conservation architecture
and a Faculty member of architecture in Yazd
University. He is head of Vernacular architecture
research center and a member of Yazd city
council. He has researched and lectured in the
field of Islamic architecture and architecture
conservation in Yazd art and architecture school
for 10 years a period which resulted in publishing
5 books and about 50 articles in Journals,
conferences, and newspapers.
AN ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
Yazd Art and Architecture School is located in the heart of the
historic part of Yazd (world heritage since 2017), whose historic
city is an earthen architecture masterpiece This lecture focuses
on the school development started with the reuse of single
traditional houses one after the others (actually 21) to realize a
single campus structure: an organic process in contrast with
actual development projects.
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Yazd Art and Architecture School is located in the heart of the historic part of Yazd inscribed on the world
heritage list in 2017 by UNESCO. The Historic city of Yazd deserves to be a world heritage because of its
living earthen fabric as an architecture masterpiece based on earth and knowledge. The school emerged
30 years ago in this city aiming to discover and educate the knowledge hidden in the historic city.
This lecture focuses on the process of school physical development in its valuable adjoining historic fabric
and quality of interaction between the school and modern functional inquiries on one side and historic
fabric limitation on the other side. Commencing with reusing a traditional house, the school developed
through an organic process calmly and continuously until today which includes 21 traditional ones. This
organic process in contrast with modern development projects consists of some issues that can be
discussed and reviewed. Paying attention to capacity, capability, potential of the historic fabric interacted
with a modern life requirement, here an architecture school, is core of the lecture.
MOHSEN ABBASI HAROFTEH is assistant professor of conservation
architecture and a Faculty member of architecture in Yazd University. He is
head of Vernacular architecture research center and a member of Yazd city
council. He has researched and lectured in the field of Islamic architecture
and architecture conservation in Yazd art and architecture school for 10 years
a period which resulted in publishing 5 books and about 50 articles in
Journals, conferences, and newspapers.
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VLADIMÍR ŠLAPETA @polimi
March 8th, 11h00 – Room V1, Building 12, Campus Leonardo
VLADIMÍR ŠLAPETA is
an architect and architec-
tural historian, at Brno
University of Technology,
Faculty of Architecture,
and mainly focuses on the
history of architectural
Modernism and Functiona-
lism of the 1920s and 1930s
in Czechoslovakia and
Central Europe.
He has also been, for a
long time, the Dean of the
Faculty of Architecture at
the Czech Technical Uni
in Prague, and later at the
Brno University of
Technology.
The Czech Modernism and its legacy
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MICHAEL HAVBRO FABER @polimi
March 8th, 9h30 – Aula Castigliano
Building 5, Ground Floor – Campus Leonardo
MICHAEL HAVBRO FABER is professor in the
area of Risk Informed Decision Support for
Structures at Aalborg University, Denmark.
His research interests are directed on decision
theory, risk assessment, resilience, sustainability,
global catastrophic risks, Bayesian probability
theory.
He has taken leadership in several international
committees, including: the Joint Committee on
Structural Safety (JCSS); the International
Forum on Engineering Decision Making (IFED);
convenor of ISO 2394 Principles of Reliability of
Structures; the international Civil Engineering
Reliability and Risk Association (CERRA), The
World Economic Forum. He is member of the
Global Expert Network on Risk and Resilience,
the OECD High Level Risk Forum and selected
member of the Danish Academy of Technical
Sciences since 2012.
On Resilience and Sustainability of Engineered Systems
The pressures on the Earth system originating from human activities are
manifold, tremendous and vividly apparent. Both at the political and
academic agendas sustainability of societal developments has become a
top priority. At the same time there is an increasing demand for impro-
ved public welfare; calling for enhanced efficiency, reliability and resili-
ence in all societal activities. It is evident that failure to achieve and
maintain sustainable and resilient societal developments must be taken
seriously at all levels of societal decision making.
But how do we model resilience and sustainability such as to facilitate
societal decision support?
The present talk takes up this challenge and presents and discusses a
framework for designing and managing resilience and sustainability of
engineered systems.

TIM TOWNSHEND
February 23rd, 11h00 (Friday) in CAMPUS LEONARDO,
Building 5, Meeting Room 10 – 1st Floor
Tim Townshend is Professor of Urban
Design for Health and leader of the
Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
'Urban Design and Human Flourishing"
theme in the School of Architecture,
Planning and Landscape, Newcastle
University.
He established a national/international
profile in interdisciplinary health/built
environment work through a steady
output of publications that has crossed
disciplinary divides. His work has been
cited over 2500 times (as at Sept '17).
Of particular note was the 2010 co-
edited volume ‘Obesogenic
Environments’ attracted contributions
from Australia, USA, New Zealand and
the Netherlands, establishing an
international context for Tim's work.
URBAN DESIGN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
There has been a long-standing understanding that the built envi-
ronment has a direct inpact on people's health and well-being.
In the 19th Century town planning developed hand in hand with
public health to address disease epidemics. Today however con-
temparary health and well-being problems are complex and multi-
factorial and impact societies in unequal ways.
To what extent, therefore, can built environment professionals
contribute to supporting healthier lifestyles?
In this lecture Tim Townshend explores emergent narratives as well
as some of his own research to suggest while there is a role for
urban design and planning more interdisciplinary cooperation is
needed and attempts to 'build' our way to better health need en-
gagement with social programmes.

STEFANO CONVERSO (Uniroma3)
Designing with material constraints
FEBRUARY 1st, 13h00 – Aula Consiglio, ABC Dept. bldg. 14
Stefano Converso, PhD “Villard
D’Honnecourt” @IUAV and
@ColumbiaUni, is a recognized
expert in the field of Digital Design
and BIM.
Without abandoning research and
teaching activity (he is, actually,
researcher @Roma3), he is also
active as architect and consultant
in increasingly complex projects.
He has been Project Manager of
RhOME, the winner of Solar
Decathlon Europe 2014, and was
recently involved in projects
including the CNC Design of Main
Auditorium of the Cloud Conference
Center, just completed in Rome,
and the Architectural and
Integrated design for the new
LEED Gold TIM Office Campus, in
Acilia, Rome, currently under
construction.
Can Digital Design reconnect architects with material qualities?
How can we bend, torque, cut materials, and definitely feel
kinaesthesia of space and matter in an abstract field?

FRANCESCO FERRISE (DMEC)
Multisensory Virtual and Augmented Reality
JANUARY 25th, 13h30 – Aula Consiglio, ABC Dept. ed. 14
Although the first examples of virtual or augmented reality were multisensory or
multimodal, after more than 50 years many of the applications are mainly based
on the sense of sight. Using more senses increases the potential of the simulation,
but also introduces new issues. The presentation will show examples of multi-
sensory Virtual or Augmented Reality applications developed in years in the Virtual
Prototyping Lab of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In particular, we
will talk about what we can simulate and how we can overcome limitations of
current technologies.
Francesco Ferrise is an
associate professor at the
Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Politecnico di
Milano. He received a Ph.D.
in 2010 on the use of
multisensory Virtual Reality
in the design of aesthetic
products. He still works on
the use of Virtual or
Augmented Reality as a
support for product
development and design. He
is Associate Editor of ASME
Journal of Computing and
Information Science in
Engineering (JCISE) and
Frontiers in Psychology,
Digital Humanities, and ICT,
section Human-Media
Interaction.

Tethered drones for civil applications
from wind energy to precision agriculture
JANUARY 10th, 13h45 – Aula Consiglio, Dept. ABC bldg. 14, 1st floor
Constraining the motion of an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) with a
tether seems a counter-intuitive action, yet it actually enables a range
of potentially transformational civil applications. These include wind
energy harvesting at high altitude (airborne wind energy), aerial robotic
manipulation, inspection and monitoring of the built environment, and
precision agriculture. The talk will provide an overview of opportunities,
challenges and limitations of autonomous tethered drones.
Lorenzo Fagiano received the
Ph.D. in Information and
Systems Engineering in 2009
from Politecnico di Torino,
Italy. From 2010 to 2013 he
held positions at UC Santa
Barbara and ETH Zurich. From
2013 to 2016 he was a senior
scientist at ABB Switzerland,
Corporate Research. Currently
he is associate professor of
control systems at Politecnico
di Milano, Italy. Recipient of
the 2011 IEEE Transactions on
Systems Technology Outstan-
ding Paper Award, of the 2010
ENI award "Debut in Research"
prize, and of two Marie Curie
International Fellowships.

LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND
OVERHEATING MITIGATION in
AUSTRALIAN CITIES.
December 18th – 16h30
Aula Consiglio, ABC Dept. ed. 14
Global climate change is enhancing local
overheating, with peak air temperatures of
46°C last year in the Greater Sydney Area,
50 km from the coast. This has consequences
on the building energy needs, peak electricity
demand, thermal comfort, and mortality and
morbidity. This talk introduces the challenges
and pathways towards mitigation in a context
of population growth.
Riccardo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Built
Environment of UNSW Sydney. With his colleagues of the
High Performance Architecture cluster he researches on
the mitigation of local overheating.
ABCPhD OPENTalks
RICCARDO PAOLINI @polimi

ABCPhD WELCOME 33rd CYCLE Day
Dept. ABC – November 10, 14h00 – Sala Riunioni P-1, Bdg.15 (underground)

TOWARDS AN INTELLIGENT, DATA DRIVEN,
INTEGRATED BUILT ECOSYSTEM
26th OCTOBER, 11.30 – Aula Consiglio, ABC Dept. ed. 14
Tuba Kocaturk
Reader (Assoc. Prof.) in Digital Architecture
Programme Director, MSc Digital Integrated Design
Director, Resilient Urban Ecosystems (RUE)
School of Architecture, University of Liverpool
Tuba Kocaturk will give a talk on
The presentation will focus on
new approaches in tackling
challenges for a sustainable
future, raise questions and
provoke a debate about data-
driven and computational design
innovation and its position in
the current debate of
sustainable development.

SUSTAINABILITY IN BUILDING with ENEDIR GHISI
July 11°, 15h00 – Aula Consiglio, bld.14 1st floor, ABC Dept. (campus Leonardo)
Enedir Ghisi, Professor and researcher at the Federal University of S.Catarina, Florianópolis, will
give a brief introduction of the main research topics addressed by his research team (Thermal
performance and energy efficiency, water consumption and Life Cycle Assessment in buildings.
The OPENTalk has been organized by Andrea Invidiata, under the supervision of Monica Lavagna.

Facade Engineering and Buildability
28th JUNE ore 15.00 – Aula Consiglio, ABC Dept. ed. 14
Mikkel Kragh will give a brief introduction to the discipline and through
examples illustrate the importance of communication and collaboration
in order to deliver successful and innovative projects.
Mikkel K. Kragh
Professor and Head of Unit
SDU Civil and Architectural Engineering,
Department of Technology and Innovation

with Catherine Maumi, MHAevt, ENSAG (Grenoble-F)
RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE –Le Territoire comme objec d’étude
June 12th (2017) - Aula menouno, Building 15 – Campus Leonardo
C.Maumi teaches History and Culture of Architecture at the école national superieure
d’Architecture (ENSAG), where she coordinates the Laboratoire Metiers de l’Architecture,
supervising PhD Candidates’s thesis. The meeting calls for a reflection on the role of territory
in architectural research, that lies (following her thought) in the openness and the ability to
adopt a cross scale approach, from the single building to the broader landscape, and to
consider the many built environment layers, from the physical, geo-historical dimension to
the immaterial dynamic of societies, institutions and memories.

with Maria Pilar Guerrieri and Cristina Pallini
ABCPhD ….. OPEN-Talks 2017,
Pilar M Guerrieri - Cristina Pallini
CITY TRANSFORMATION SEEN THROUGH CHRONOLOGICAL
AND CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS.
Aula Consiglio, Building 14 - 1st floor ……… June 8th , 2017 ……… 15:00 – 17:30
CITY TRANSFORMATION seen through chronological and cross-cultural analysis
June 8th (2017) - Aula Consiglio, Building 14 – Campus Leonardo
Two different case studies will be presented, dealing with different scales of city
transformation: the city agglomeration in Delhi (M.P. Guerrieri) and the reconstruction of
Thessaloniki (C.Pallini). Urbanization operations, part of development processes, may cause
severe negative impact on the existing heritage. It is our duty, as researchers in architectural
design, to develop a methodology to analyze multifaceted and stratified heritage and to find a
way to effectively integrate heritage care in urban development process.

with Giulio Barazzetta, Carlo Poggi, Marco Simoncelli, Emilio Mossa
CONCEPT, DESIGN AND SETTING OF THE EXHIBITION
"P.L.NERVI - THE MODEL AS A TOOL” - 17 May - 15:00 Aula Consiglio
Giulio, Carlo, Marco and Emilio collaborated to organize the exhibition about PLNervi.
They will tell us the story of their huge work of drawing, calculation, printing (3D!) and
networking with many other research and academic institutions.

ABC PhD Open Talks 2017
Francesco Pittau @polimi
Decarbonizing the building sector
bio-based materials for the mitigation of climate changes
April 10th
, 2017- Aula Consiglio-ABC, Campus Leonardo, 14h30-17h00
Francesco Pittau is a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH working on
sustainability assessment and environmental impacts analysis of
building materials and built environment. There, he is currently
involved in a new Project abut "Low energy concrete", investigatin
alternative new generation of concrete-based solutions.
In 2013 he got the PhD in Building Systems Engineering, with a
thesis aimed to develop a life cycle-based method for the evaluation
of the carbon footprint of wood buildings. He was involved in several
research projects, among others “€CO2: Wood in carbon efficient
construction”, an EU research co-founded by the FP7-program.
Since 2016 he is co-founder of Fastecs Srl, a Startup company with a
core business on the design, production and marketing of innovative
timber construction systems.
More info here

ABC PhD Open Talks 2017
Claudio Martani @polimi
Design with uncertainty
Futureproof infrastructures design
April 10th, 2017- Aula Consiglio-ABC, Campus Leonardo, 14h30-17h00
Claudio Martani is a Research Associate at the ETHZ working on
information-driven infrastructure design and management. He holds
a PhD in Building Environment Project and Technology (TePAC)
from the Politecnico di Milano, where he developed a thesis on risks
management through the building process.
In 2011 he was Research Assistant at the MIT’s Senseable City
Laboratory, where he mainly focused on real-time sensing (c.)
technologies and energy efficiency optimization in buildings.
From 2013 to 2015 he was Research Associate at the Center for
Smart Infrastructure and Constructions, CambridgeUni,
developing a model for assessing flexibility levels for infrastructure
integration (.a), and working on sensing technology for station
management (.b).
More info here
.a
.b
.c

ABCPhD Open Talks 2017
A.Kiviniemi+A.Carbonari @polimi
Integrated and efficient approaches to design and construction
March 31st - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:00-15:30
Dr. Arto Kiviniemi is professor of Digital Architectural Design (Universities of Salford
and Liverpool) and one of the most known leading experts in BIM. He has developed
his researches in Finland (VTT) and in UK.
Prof. Alessandro Carbonari’s (UniPolitecnica delle Marche) fields are Automation in
Construction, Energy Savings, Probabilistic Modelling and Construction Management
The Open Talk, chaired by prof. A.Ciribini, will present their research activities about
ICT applications in the construction process, from design to construction phases.
For more information: daniela.pasini@polimi.it

Valerio Lo Brano @polimi
Innovative simulation models of energy systems
March 29th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:00-15:30
Valerio Lo Brano is Building Physics and Solar Energy
Systems professor at UNIPalermo, where he has the role
of Head of the Energy and Nuclear Engineering Master
Program.
He deals with topics related to energy demand, energy
management and energy efficiency, at a neighborhood
scale, as well as at a product-component scale, taking care
of the economic as well as the environmental impacts, in
their Life Cycle.
For more information: lobrano@dream.unipa.it

Federico Butera back to polimi
Building, Cities and Sustainable Development:
past, present and future
March 29th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:00-15:30
Federico Butera is our (at polimi) emeritus professor with a
very long career in the energy sector, dealing with energy
efficiency strategies, in particular applied to the control of
indoor and outdoor environment and its comfort.
The story he will tell us is about the evolution of the concept
of Built Environment Sustainability, from its first appearance
in the international debate, with the final aim to give insights
about our next future.
For more information: niccolo.aste@polimi.it
Figure 2. Integrated design.
54 F.M. Butera

Michal Šejnoha @polimi
Effective properties of wood
Application to glued laminated timber beams
March 23rd - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 16:30-17:30
The main research interest of Michal Šejnoha (MSc degree
at CTU-Prague and PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
USA, researcher at the Czech Technical University) is the
mechanical behaviour of materials and new (reinforced,
composites, …) ones.
This lecture is about the modeling of wood at various
scales, from their microstructure to complex elements like
beams, and the use of stochastic hierarchical models in the
framework of Bayesian statistics, to capture the inherent
variability of the elastic properties of individual timber planks
and the uncertainty of the parameters controlling their
probability distributions.
For more informations: gabriele.milani@polimi.it

Antonio Tralli @polimi
Masonry draining stations and Medieval fortresses.
The 2012 earthquake seismic vulnerability and state of damage
March 23rd - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 17h30-18h30
Antonio M. Tralli is Antonio Tralli is full professor of Scienza delle
Costruzioni at UniFerrara and an expert of FEM and masonry
modelling.
The seminar deals with two categories of masonry structures of
historic and architectural interest, recently studied by the
structural research group of the University of Ferrara: 1) the ‘900
masonry draining stations all around the last portion of the Po
and 2) a series of castles and fortresses built by Estensi Dukes in
Modena, Reggio Emilia and the Garfagnana regions.
Per informazioni: gabriele.milani@polimi.it

Alberto Leva (from DEIB to ABC)
Multi-physics modelling and simulation tools
Application in NZEBuildings design and management
February 28th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:30-16:30
The main research interest of Alberto Leva (Dept. of Elettro-
nica, Informazione e Bioing.) is process modeling, simulation
and control, a natural arena for interdisciplinary cooperation.
He will tell us his history as researcher and provide an
overview of his field activity, in particular, modern multiphy-
sics modeling paradigms and the use of simulation tools
( ), with a special focus on energy-related aspects.
The topic we share is energy efficient buildings: he sees
them as systems, we as architectures. Both we use
simulators as a decision aid in design or management
practice. It will be a very interesting confrontation meeting.
Per informazioni: giuliana.iannaccone@polimi.it

ABCPhD Talks
An early stage researcher meeting
(those dealing with BIM)
The idea of the format is simple: instantly grabbing any useful
occasion:
• to practice presentation to colleagues,
• to establish contacts and scientific relationships
• to obtain reviews from outside
Aly Rashid is a future PhD Candidate in an UK university. His
research proposal is about the Implementation of BIM
software in the architectural curriculum. Thanks to Daniela
Pasini we have organizing a to present him the
most recent activities of our ABCPhD Candidates.
Per informazioni: daniela.pasini@polimi.it
Flash-meeting
Flash-meeting
AULA CONSIGLIO h 15.30-16:30
CAMPUS LEONARDO
Dipartimento ABC
Via E. Bonardi, 9
Building 14 – 1st floor

ABCPhD go-to Talks
Polimi @EURAC (and Klimahaus)
January (2017) Thursday 26+27th
Leaving from Politecnico toward Bolzano the 26th, at 7:15 am,
and from Bolzano back to Milano at 5:00 pm the 27th

Daniel Barber @Polimi
Architecture, Media and the Great Acceleration
December 19th 2016 - 12h00-17h00 (with a pause)
Aula Consiglio Dept. ABC, Campus Leonardo.
Assistant Professor of Architecture at Penn Design, Daniel makes
research about the relationship between the design fields and the
emergence of global environmental culture, in the last century.
His speach will tell us his history as historian of design, who tried
to integrate narratives and methods from the histories of
architecture, art, landscape architecture, technology, science,
politics and, last but not least, economics..
Per informazioni: elena.seghezzi@polimi.it

ABCPhD OpenTalks 07
JOHN PENDLEBURY @polimi
The Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) questions why material objects from the past should
be considered valuable and extend this to what should be protected and to how that protection
should take place; that is, what constitutes heritage and acceptable conservation practice.
Using the AHD as a framing device, this lecture is focused upon the practice of conservation
applied through the English planning system. It will reflect upon how, in tandem with the growth
and extension of a system of conservation-planning, the protection of the historic environment
has, over recent decades, become increasingly intertwined with other public policy objectives,
especially with urban regeneration and economic development.
Info: cristina.pallini@polimi.it, cecilia.fumagalli@polimi.it
The Authorised Heritage Discourse.
Conservation, Planning and Urban Policy
After the lecture, we shall present the book “Waterfronts Revisited. European Ports in a Historic
and Global Perspective”, eds H. Porfyriou & M. Sepe, Routledge 2017 (here)
Town planner and urban conservationist with practice experience, John Pendlebury,
teaches at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
November 25th
– Aula Beltrami, Bldg.5 (PT) - Campus Leonardo 9:30 – 12:30

JOSEP-MARIA GARCIA FUENTES @Polimi
Building memories and inventing space
May 25th - room S.1.7, Building 3 - Campus Leonardo, 9h30-11h30
Josep-Maria Garcia Fuentes is researcher at the School of Architecture, Planning and
Landscape of Newcastle University and will talk with us about John Soane’s House
and Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
John Soane, Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1776, was one of the most brilliant
architects of his time. He had a thorough understanding of historical architectures,
thanks to his travels in continental Europe, and a pioneering and visionary approach
to architecture that let him become a constant reference for many twentieth-century
architects in Europe and beyond.
Our main questions: How a journey can provide the basis to the architect’s “formal
education”? Does collective history need the architect’s imagination? And, what is the
role of “nostalgia” in the never-ending reconstruction/invention of the past?
Per informazioni: Cristina Pallini

ROBERT OWEN @Polimi
Linking Integrated Design and Delivery Solutions
with Infrastructure (IDDS)
June 7th – aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:30-18:30
Robert Owen is associate professor @QUT, and Coordinator of the CIB
Task Group 91 Infrastructure. involved in Research Development for the
School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment and Institute for Future
Environments in the Science and Engineering Faculty.
Bob has wide-ranging expertise in electronics, as a military pilot, and in
intelligence and defence projects development and their management. He
worked for the NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and
Development (AGARD), the highly praised Integration of Geospatial and Built
Environment – National Data Policy, and The Use of Smart ICT in the
Planning, Design and Use of Infrastructure in Australia.
Information: silvia.mastrolembo@polimi.it, Tel. 02.2399.6017
CANCELED – Sorry …!

PROTEZIONE CIVILE @Polimi
Seismic vulnerability of buildings and risk mitigation
April 27th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, h.14:30-18:30
h. 14.00 -14.30 – Le attività del Dipartimento della Protezione Civile per la
mitigazione del rischio sismico – Dott. Geol. Giuseppe Naso
h. 14.30 -15.15 – Monitoraggio strutturale attraverso misure di vibrazioni –
Ing. Daniele Spina
h. 15.15 -16.30 – L'Operational Modal Analysis e la valutazione dell'indice
dell’operatività strutturale degli edifici (IOPS) – ing. Gianluca Acunzo
Per informazioni: chiara.tardini@polimi.it, Tel. 02.23994334
See here for a list of research themes.

CATHERINE MAUMI @Polimi
The job of the Architectural Historian
May 18th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, h.14:30-16:30
Catherine Maumi is the head of the Laboratoire Métiers de l’Histoire de l’Ar
chitecture, édifices-villes, tèrritoires and joint supervisor, with Emilio Faroldi,
of Caterina Franco, PhD Candidate here (30th cycle) and at the école
nationale supérieure d’architecture (ENSAG). The philosophy of the
Laboratoire is to use the history of architecture as a way to understand and
study the present at the scale of an architecture, of a town or of a country.
The meeting is an opportunity for interaction and exchange between the
guest, our PhD Candidates and D.ABC faculty about the meaning of the
“research in architecture” and its practice at ENSAG as well as at polimi.
See here for a list of research themes.

BILAL SUCCAR @Polimi
The Digitization of the AEC Industry
and the Policy Makers' Attitudes
April 22nd - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, h.11:00-16:00
Thanks to Angelo Ciribini and Marzia Bolpagni, we have the opportunity to
meet and interview Bilal Succar, a worldwide ackowledged BIM Guru, based
in Melbourne, Australia, and to discuss with him the ultimate meanings of the
Digital Turning Points in front of the Governmental Strategies and the National
or Regional Levels of BIM Maturity to be reached.
His research (quoting from: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/bilal-
succar) «focuses on the technologies, processes and policies enabling
construction industry stakeholders to collaboratively design, build and operate
a facility»
You can see his full academic profile and publications
here: http://bit.ly/Bilal_Succar.

The tour will be guided by Valeria Pracchi, who has directed the restoration works for
the new museum.
Meeting point, Ticket office of the museum, at 9:00 – Visit start at 9:15
Il nuovo spazio museale della Pietà Rondanini di Michelangelo si trova in una apposita
Sala all’interno del complesso dei Musei Civici del Castello Sforzesco di Milano. La
rinnovata destinazione museale voluta nel 2012 da Stefano Boeri, allora assessore alla
Cultura della giunta Pisapia, ha suscitato notevole dibattito in città e su riviste e
quotidiani non solo locali. Si è trattato infatti di modificare l’ormai storicizzato
allestimento museale progettato dai BBPR alla fine degli anni Cinquanta e
universalmente noto.
Numerose sono dunque le questioni che sono state poste all’attenzione del pubblico
interessato e che si intendono qui riprendere per ricostruire il dibattito intercorso in
sedi importanti. Esse possono essere racchiuse entro tre ambiti tematici:
• modifica dell’allestimento storico in rapporto alle (nuove / modificate / diverse)
modalità di fruizione dell’opera;
• scoperta e conoscenza di una nuova parte del Castello mai prima apprezzata;
• destino dell’allestimento BBPR nella sala degli Scarlioni che ha ospitato la Pietà fino
al 2015.
Il giro proseguirà all’interno dei musei del Castello per visionare la Sala degli Scarlioni,
dove era posta la Pietà, e per osservare e accennare ai restauri in corso alla pittura
leonardesca della Sala delle Asse, se possibile.
ABCPhD
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
IN ARCHITECTURE,
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
AND CONSTRUCTION
ENGINEERING
Nuovo MUSEO PIETA’ RONDANINI
Thursday 17th September, 2015

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