Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area
Architect, urban planner, and designer Federica focuses her research on new approaches for Strategic and Sustainable Planning, Environment, and Landscape Architecture. Drawing from a diverse and interdisciplinary skill set, she built on herself variegated and multidisciplinary expertise, primarily based on three axes: Project Research Development and Management, Urban and Architectural Design, and Photography. She holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture and then a Master’s in City and Technology at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC, Spain), both with Distinction. Federica’s research projects have been showcased in prestigious venues, including the MAXXI Museum and Venice Biennale. Her involvement in Urban and Landscape Environmental Projects and Public Spaces Creative-Innovative Activation Strategies, from the Editorial and Educational point of view, has led to the successful coordination of research at the European and National levels of funding, building a flexible and international profile with a positive and goal-oriented attitude. Throughout her career in IAAC, Federica has held various roles of increasing responsibility, each contributing to her deep understanding of grant management, international relations, and organizational leadership. She has successfully highlighted significant achievements. She is Head of the Grants Management Department, running several International and National fundings, and Grants Specialist and EU Project Financial Controller at IAAC and FabLabBarcelona. She works closely with interdisciplinary teams of researchers, industry partners, academies, and funding agencies, running innovative research projects that push the boundaries of architectural knowledge and practice. She is responsible for coordinating, managing, preparing, following up, and justifying H2020, national-funded programs, and other European ones, such as H2020, HEU. Creative Europe and Platforms, Erasmus+, overseeing numerous initiatives and research, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise in navigating the complex landscape of international grant funding, working closely with stakeholders across sectors and ensuring effective implementation of grant-funded projects, leading a talented team of professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability. Alongside this, she’s following her personal research in photography regarding the reflection on human behavior in mutable urban contexts, analyzing the impact of human transformations on the environmental sphere.
Throughout her career in IAAC, Federica has held various roles of increasing responsibility, each contributing to her deep understanding of grant management, international relations, and organizational leadership. She has successfully highlighted significant achievements. She is currently Head of the Grants Management Department, running several International and National fundings, and Grants Specialist and EU Project Financial Controller at IAAC and FabLabBarcelona. She works closely with interdisciplinary teams of researchers, industry partners, academies, and funding agencies, running innovative research projects that push the boundaries of architectural knowledge and practice. She is responsible for coordinating, managing, preparing, following up, and justifying H2020, national-funded programs, and other European ones, such as H2020, HEU. Creative Europe and Platforms, Erasmus+, overseeing numerous initiatives and research, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise in navigating the complex landscape of international grant funding, working closely with stakeholders across sectors and ensuring effective implementation of grant-funded projects, leading a talented team of professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
Grant Specialist and EU Projects Financial Manager at IAAC and FabLabBarcelona
BUILDs_project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Be updated about successful intelligent living solutions for cities, which in turn can help us overcome the challenges posed by rapid urbanisation; investigating biological systems, creating prototypes based on information technology and digital manufacturing, collaborating among academia, public administration, SMEs and accelerator programmes.
Noumena is a young networking platform for design, computation and innovation with locations in Italy and Spain. Noumena is investigating between the boundaries of new digital paradigmas and design strategies applied to architecture and fabrication through research, organization of international events, workshops and competitions.
URBiNAT focuses on the regeneration and integration of deprived social housing urban developments through an innovative and inclusive catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), ensuring sustainability and mobilising forces for social cohesion. Interventions focus on the public space to co-create with citizens new urban, social and nature-based relations within and between different neighbourhoods. Taking the full physical, mental and social well-being of citizens as its main goal, URBiNAT aims to co-plan a healthy corridor as an innovative and flexible NBS, which itself integrates a large number of micro NBS emerging from community-driven design processes. URBiNAT consists of a worldwide consortium of academic and business partners around 7 European cities (Porto, Nantes and Sofia as ‘frontrunners’; Siena, Nova Gorica, Brussels and Høje-Taastrup as followers), that will act as living laboratories to implement healthy corridor solutions. The cities will be supported by local partners, associations and research centres, and by Europe-wide centres, universities and companies. These will develop a participatory process, an NBS catalogue and a healthy corridor, while monitoring impacts, disseminating and marketing results. Together, they form an inclusive community of practice (CoP), collaborating with partners from Iran and China, and NBS observers located in Brazil, Oman and Japan, bringing experiences and an international dimension to the project.
“Creative Food Cycles” enhances innovative and creative practices between food, architecture and conviviality in a transnational and European perspective. CREATIVE FOOD CYCLES explores new ways of communication, social integration and training by enhancing the use of digital technologies through creative performances for the living spaces of tomorrow connected to Food-Art-Creativity.
Project Assistant at IAAC for ka-au Project, co-funded by E+ Programme of the EU Union. Into the framework of ka-au project, IAAC is leading its role of international centre for research, education, investigation; one of its objectives is to develop multidisciplinary programmes that explore international urban and territorial phenomena. The Self-sufficiency Agenda, central to all research lines developed in IAAC, establishes the responsibility for confronting the process of global urbanization from multiscalar operations and through prototypes that promote environmental, economic and social sustainability. In order to promote the innovative education and training that emerging technologies require higher educational institutions together with industrial partners have created the Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism (KA-AU). The increasing availability of data creates new opportunities not only for monitoring and management, but also for changing the way we describe, understand and design cities, challenging many fundamental assumptions of city design and planning professions. The group understand “Advanced Urbanism” as the sensitive integration of ICT in cities, taking in consideration cultural heritage, environmental and social dimension issues. “Advanced Urbanism” is about designing and planning processes instead of just concrete artefacts, linking citizens, business and governments into sustainable urban business cultures. “Advanced Urbanism” requires changing traditional design and planning practices towards more open, collaborative and interdisciplinary practices.