Luisa Maria Calabrese

Luisa Maria Calabrese works across the theory and practice of spatial design, transdisciplinary artistic research and curatorial practice, with a particular focus on the critical agency of design. She is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at TU Delft, an Education Fellow at the Teaching Academy working across Art, Science and Technology, and a Creative Partner at the Make Move Think Foundation. She holds a Master of Science in Architecture and a PhD in Urbanism.

Her recent work on Altered Nature confronts one of modernity’s founding fictions: the idea that nature and the urban, the natural and the artificial, human subject and environmental object, and art, science and technology can be known and acted upon as separate worlds. Rights of Nature is a current strand of this research, exploring what follows when living systems are recognised as subjects rather than resources, and how that recognition enters representation, design, stewardship and decision-making. Across this work, she aims to contribute to making the ontological shift at the core of Altered Nature operative through spatial practices of commoning.

Nikos Katsikis

Nikos Katsikis is an assistant professor of urban design at the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He works at the intersection of urbanization theory, territorial design, and geospatial analysis. His research seeks to contribute to a geographical understanding of the socio-metabolic relations between cities and their “operational landscapes:” non-city landscapes of primary production, circulation and waste disposal that support urban life. He holds graduate degrees in Architecture and Spatial Design from the National Technical University of Athens (2006, 2008) and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2016). Before joining TU Delft, Nikos was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg (LU), and Research Tutor at the Royal College of Arts (UK). At Harvard GSD he was lecturer at the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and research and teaching associate at New Geographies Lab and Urban Theory Lab, where he also served on the editorial board of the New Geographies journal. Nikos is co-editor of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism, and the volume Positions on Emancipation, as well as co-author of the book Manhattan: Grid for Ordering an Island. His recent work includes contributions in Anthropocene Review, Architectural Design (AD), Technospheres, Harvard Design Magazine, New Geographies and MONU; book chapters in Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (ed. Neil Brenner); Doing Global Urban Research (ed. Michael Hoyler); The Horizontal Metropolis (ed. Paola Vigano); and the forthcoming books (with Urban Theory Lab) Data-spheres of Planetary Urbanization, and Environments of Planetary Urbanization.

Daniele Cannatella

Daniele Cannatella is an Assistant Professor in Urban Data for Design at the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft, in the Urban Data Science section. His work brings together spatial data science, mapping and cartography, AI, urbanism and landscape-based planning to inform and inspire more resilient and sustainable urban futures. He supervises graduation projects in the DISSUF cluster and across multiple clusters, and welcome students interested in spatial analysis, green-blue infrastructure planning, or data and- AI-supported approaches to urban design challenges.

Francesca Rizzetto

Francesca Rizzetto is an architect and urban designer, her work investigates the relationships between politics, economics, polluted landscapes and the built environment, with a focus on situated forms of urban design in environmentally fragile territories. She teaches at TU Delft, where she is also part of the Delta Urbanism research group. Her research addresses space, ecology, culture and politics in highly dynamic delta landscapes. Francesca also works independently for public and private clients in the Netherlands.

Víctor Muñoz Sanz

Víctor Muñoz Sanz is an assistant professor of urban design at the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. He conceptualises, leads, and develops critical research on the architecture and urbanism of the past, present, and future of work. Specifically, his work looks at the interplay of the design of productive landscapes with technology and management, and aims to question the role of urban design in enabling new urban economies and inclusive forms of employment.

He is the author of the books Reconnecting Cities, People and Nature: Exercises in Urban Design (with Robbert Jan van der Veen; Birkhäuser, 2025) and Una Rápida Compañera: Arquitectura y Trabajo en la Cuarta Era de la Maquina [In Fast Company: Architecture and Labor in the Fourth Machine Age] (Bartlebooth, 2024), and Foundries of the Future: A Guide for 21st Century Cities of Making (with Cities of Making; TU Delft Open, 2020), and co-editor of Automated Landscapes (Nieuwe Instituut, 2023), Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (dpr Barcelona, 2022), Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (nai010, 2022), and Extreme Urbanism vol. 1 and 2 (with Rahul Mehrotra; Harvard GSD, 2011 and 2012).

Víctor qualified as an architect at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006), and holds a master of architecture in urban design, with distinction, from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011), and a PhD cum laude in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2016).

Anna Karla de Almeida Milani

Anna Karla de Almeida Milani is an architect, urban designer, and historian, currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Section of Urban Design at TU Delft and Guest Lecturer at EPFL. She works at the intersection of industrial territories and corporate urbanism, company towns, extractive and petrochemical landscapes, colonial and postcolonial heritage, biopolitics, socio-ecological transition, and critical environments. As a supervisor, Anna Karla offers methodological, historical, theoretical, and design frameworks to support students in critically situating their projects across past, present, and future conditions, with particular experience in the Dutch Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe.

Juliana Gonçalves

With a transdisciplinary and justice-centred approach, Juliana Gonçalves’ pedagogy encourages critical reflection and engaged education. She advocates for education as an awakening and empowering experience – “education as freedom” inspired by Freirian pedagogy – rather than a process of passive knowledge transmission. Her teaching invites students to grapple with real-world challenges, engage with people and communities, and question dominant narratives in spatial planning and development.

Alex Wandl

Alex Wandl likes to work together with students who are interested in how places, people and systems change together. He is interested in looking across neighbourhoods, cities, (mega)regions and the territories-in-between, with attention to circular societies, territorial metabolism and more just and liveable built environments. Alex invites students to look carefully at places that are often overlooked, fragmented or considered peripheral, and to discover the forms of urbanity, public life and future potential. For him, mentoring is about questioning, testing and learning together. He encourages students to develop their own position, to use design as a way of thinking, and to translate critical ideas into spatially precise and hopeful proposals for metropolitan transformation.

Diego Sepúlveda Carmona

Diego Sepúlveda Carmona is a designer with a PhD in Planning Sciences whose research advances socio-spatial justice across planning regimes, cultures, and scales. He examines the systemic components of urban and regional development, specifically linking spatial fragmentation, social segregation, and socio-environmental systems. Using morphological and hydro-geomorphological mapping methods—including the analysis of territorial water and soil cycles—he studies integrated risk management and complex territorial dynamics. His work aims to rectify spatio-temporal misalignments in planning, integrate metropolitan governance, and broaden spatial knowledge by incorporating both human and non-human perspectives under its valuable Agencies. Active in teaching and research supervision, he is a member of major international organizations, including the International Forum on Urbanism, the Metropolis Foundation, and various transdisciplinary climate networks.

Javier Arpa Fernández

Javier Arpa Fernández is an academic in architecture and urbanism, as well as an author, curator, and researcher. He holds a Master of Science in Architecture from Delft University of Technology, specializing in urban design, research, and dissemination.  Currently, Javier is the Head of the Building Audiences Group, a newly established lab at the Department of Architecture (TU Delft) aimed at making design knowledge accessible to broader audiences, promoting research, and disseminating ideas about the built environment through publications, exhibitions, and conferences. He is also the Curator of Public Programs at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (TU Delft).

Luca Iuorio

Luca Iuorio works across spatial design and climate research, focusing on how future imaginaries emerge through the interplay of technical systems, environmental change, and socio-political conditions. Using qualitative and design-led methods, he explores spatial practices as a means to engage with the complexities of climate adaptation beyond solutionism.