Maria Vittoria Arnetoli, Arch.

University of Florence

mariavittoria.arnetoli@unifi.it

She graduated in 2018 with honors and dignity of publication at the School of Architecture of the University of Florence, discussing a thesis entitled “Resilience to climate change and urban regeneration. Innovative design methods and tools: the case study of public spaces in Scandicci.”. During the university course it carries out two periods in France, at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture in Montpellier (mobility for study of 5 months) and at the studio Atelier 43 in Lyon (mobility for traineeship of 3 months), within the European programme Erasmusplus.

Since 2018 she is qualified to practice the profession of Architect.

She has collaborated as a scholarship (2019-2021) and as research fellow (2021-today) in national research addressing the issues of the adaptation to climate change of public spaces (PRIN Adaptive Design), the design of post-emergency temporary housing modules (Reluis Laboratories and Department of Civil Protection) and the response of health facilities to the pandemic by COVID-19 (TESIS). 

She is a teaching assistant in the Laboratories of Technology of Architecture and Urban Design at the School of Architecture (UniFi).

She collaborates in environmental education courses in secondary schools organized by the Environmental Education Laboratory of Pratolino and the Metropolitan City of Florence.

She is currently enrolled in the Phd Course in “Sustainability and Innovation for the Project of the Built Environment and Product System” within the curriculum of Technology of Architecture in the XXXV cycle.

She is co-founder of the inter-university network TEMP- which works on a national scale on the topic of post-disaster temporariness in fragile Italian territories.

Scientific interests: Environmental Design, Urban Planning, Temporary architecture, Emergency management, Circular economy, Adaptation to climate change, Urban regeneration, Public spaces, Participatory processes.