Cecilia Furlan

Career

• 2023 Assistant Professor at the University of Natural Ressources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Institue of Landscape Architecture (ILA)
• 2022 - 2023 Researcher and Lecturer Delft University of Technology, The Netherland: Coordinating the Graduation studio Metropolitan Ecologies of Places, Urbanism Department. Investigating the concept space in the field of Urban Metabolism and Circular Economy
• 2021 - 2023 Senior Researcher (Leave of abscene for 1 year) University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna (BOKU), Austria: Designing Landscape in the Anthropocene. Exploring the impact of human habitat on the earth’s surface through observation, extractions and imagined realities that expose the condition of the urban and landscape substrate.
• 2020 - 2020 Visiting Lecturer and Researcher University of Antwerp, Belgium Urban Landscape Design as tool of negotiation in CE transition. Organizing the Seminar- Workshop Territorializing Circularity.
• 2020 - 2023 Research Fellow University of Antwerp, Belgium: Investigating systemic metabolic solutions towards the circular transition of region and territories in Flanders. Finalizing the Atlantes project in joint collaboration with BOKU.
• 2020 - 2022 Guest Researcher Deflt University of Technology, The Netherland: Untersuchung des Konzepts des städtischen Stoffwechsels und der Kreislaufwirtschaft, Entwicklung eines Wissenszentrums in Zusammenarbeit mit der UK-British Academy BA-KNWA im Rahmen des Knowledge Frontier Seed Grant and Organization die internationale Konferenz The Aesthetic Inquiry of the Anthropocene.
• 2019 - 2019 Visiting Lecturer and Researcher Université Catolique de Louvain, Belgium Investigating the movement and regeneration of Soil in the Walloon and Hainout region (BE).
• 2018 - 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher Delft University of Technology, The Netherland Leading a Work Package within the project funded by the Horizon 2020 project REPAiR. Investigating the concept of Urban Metabolism and Circular Economy and resource management through qualitative, quantitative and design methodologies focusing on the (peri-urban) built environment.
• 2018 - 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher Delft University of Technology, The Netherland Leading a Work Package within the project funded by the Horizon 2020 project REPAiR. Investigating the concept of Urban Metabolism and Circular Economy and resource management through qualitative, quantitative and design methodologies focusing on the (peri-urban) built environment.
• 2016 - 2017 Senior Researcher and Lecturer ZUYD University of Applied Science, The Netherland Investigating the relationships between placemaking and circular economy concepts Developing urban design strategies for revitalizing shrinking post-industrial territories through placemaking. Case study: KerKrade-Limburg region (NL) Organizing and Coordinating the international design workshop Recycling Limburg 1.
• 2013 - 2017 KU Leuven, Belgium - IUAV Venice, Italy Doctor in philosophy, joint degree in Engineering - Urbanism; Doctor Europeaus
• 2013 - 2017 Doctoral Researcher KU Leuven, Belgium – IUA Venice, Italy Investigating the concept of wasteland. On worn out landscape. Mapping wasteland in the Veneto Central area and Charleroi territory Organizing scientific seminars: Maps 1-2 (IUAV) Organizing and Coordinating the international design workshop Recycling city 2-3 (IUAV)
• 2013 - 2016 Lecturer, Coordinator and responsible of the education IUA Venice, Italy Coordinating courses and teaching activities of the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism Coordinating the Erasmus + IP intensive program during the summer 2013 and 2014 Lecturer and Tutor during the urban design courses
• 2010 - 2012 KU Leuven Begium - IUAV Venice, Italy European Master in Urbanism - EMU (MaM)
• 2004 - 2010 IUAV Venice, Italy Degree in Architecture (Bachelor ans Master)

Awards

• Year: 2020 Awards: UK - The Netherlands: Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on "The Anthropocene" Conference grant Awarded as one of the fifteen best early career researchers of the Netherlands
• Year: 2020 Awards: USI Antwerp University (BE) Visiting scholar Award
• Year: 2019 Awards: AESOP Young Investigator Training Program Award
• Year: 2019 Awards: EUROPAN 15 Winning Project (Runner Up) Charleroi site (BE)
• Year: 2019 Awards: UC Louvain (BE) Visiting scholar Award
• Year: 2018 Awards: PhD Thesis award: Premio Giovanni Ferraro, awarded as one of the five best theses in Urbanism 2018 Honorable mention
• Year: 2014 Awards: Lisbon Open Room Competition, Honorable mention. 2014 Urban Design Competition, PRO Category