About us

Tomorrow’s Cities LAB was born from an initiative of a group of professors and researchers of the University of Cagliari and aims to analyze and promote a multidisciplinary urban regeneration, co-design and innovation of cities, looking for solutions to balance the private interest and public administration, the usefulness of individuals and collective welfare, through a continuous search for innovative models for the enhancement of the resources of the territory, limiting waste and focusing on the people who live there.
The mission of the TCL is to analyze and develop innovative solutions for the development of strategies and policies that focus on sustainability, resilience and urban and territorial smartness, as well as facilitate their dissemination and implementation through studies, conferences and concrete experiments aimed at optimizing and innovating public services and linking the material infrastructure of cities with human capital, intellectual and social capital that lives them, thanks to the use of new communication technologies, sustainable mobility, solutions for environmental protection and energy efficiency, in order to improve the quality of life and meet the needs of citizens, businesses and institutions.

Piero Addis

Marine biologist expert in research and development of technologies for sustainable aquaculture and sustainable development of coastal areas. - Department of Life Sciences and Environment.

Piero Addis

Marine biologist with 25 years of professional experience in fundamental and applied ecology. Responsible for several environmental research programs, mainly in fisheries science and conservation of marine resources. Experience in working in multicultural environments and leading/coordinating multidisciplinary teams, involving fishermen's associations, fishery/aquaculture managers and policy makers. Management of local, national and international projects with EU procedures related to project/program, design/implementation and budget monitoring/evaluation.

Ginevra Balletto

Urban planner expert in sustainable urban planning, resource planning and planning for the recovery of brownfield sites in national and international areas. - Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Ginevra Balletto

Professor of sustainable urban planning and georesource planning at the University of Cagliari, he focuses his research on the city and territory, on different but related themes, such as sport, military areas, the recovery of abandoned buildings. Interdisciplinary by training, he collaborates in research groups with geographers, geologists, economists, sport-designers and doctors of national and international standing.

Alessandro Sebastiano Carrus

A technology enthusiast, I focus my research on how to make the best use of Big Data for more efficient and sustainable spatial planning through the development of models that integrate Machine Learning processes and GIS software. - Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Alessandro Sebastiano Carrus

Doctor of Architecture and research fellow for the development of technologies for the digital transformation of urban planning. I did an internship at the competence center of the multinational company PLANET Smart City in the Research and Development team. With the team of UniCA I participated in the 2017 edition of "Urbanpromo Giovani" with the project "Taxibike" receiving the award of the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa among the six best redevelopment projects that explored the integration of culture, tourism and commerce allowing accessibility to all according to the principles of universal design-design for all.

Luciano Cau

Researcher, he has recently deepened the themes on the geographical dimension in the police genre, within the two-year research project on insularity and crime and security perception in Cagliari, within the project on space justice and Mediterranean territorial systems. Urban policies, social practices, mobility. - Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory.

Luciano Cau

Born in 1960 he began to take a professional interest in "geography" as a group surveyor in the army. Graduated in 1991 at the University of Cagliari with a thesis on the development of Sardinia, he then dealt with the problems of urban waterfront recovery during the Master at the Department of Geography of the University of Plymouth and the Ph.D. at the Department of Geography of the University of Southampton. Since 2002 he is researcher of Geography at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage, University of Cagliari. From 2003 to 2013 he was Mayor of the Municipality of Furtei (SU). He currently teaches Geography for the three-year degree course in Languages and cultures for linguistic mediation. His research interests range from transport geography to tourism, internal geopolitics, crime mapping and GIS.

Giovanni Marco Chiri

Architect, expert in evaluating the efficiency of the microclimate in the urban fabric and experimenting with interdisciplinary methodologies and processes of urban design. - Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Giovanni Marco Chiri

ssociate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (ICAR14). He was consultant for the work on urban design of Zhaoqing planning & urban design Bureau (Guangdong-PRC). And winner of the competition to redevelop the commemorative Arch Square and the lakefront in Zhaoqing (Guangdong-PRC), a project that was awarded by OICE and displayed at the 2010 Expo in Shanghai in the House of Excellences in China – China Italy Architectural Organization. In 2009, he turned to the study and assessment of microclimate efficiency in the urban fabric and the testing of methodologies and interdisciplinary processes of urban design. He is involved in projects of international cooperation in Kenya, in the rehabilitation of the Campus of the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo (Mozambique), in the Plan of Urban Rehabilitation of the Hospital area, Botanical Gardens and Amphitheatre in Cagliari as well as providing scientific support to the Independent Region of Sardinia in the Project Iscol@ – New relationships between design and pedagogy for the schools of the region. Currently is member of the scientific board UNICA-Ministry of Defence for rehabilitation of decommissioned military zones.

Ester Cois

Researcher and Associate Professor in Territorial Sociology, her research interests focus on social, economic and environmental sustainability in local territorial development processes. - Department of Social Sciences and Institutions.

Ester Cois

PhD in Comparative Social Research, she is a researcher in Territorial Sociology at the Departments of Political, Social and Architecture Sciences of the University of Cagliari and Director of the scientific journal "Sociologica. International Journal of Sociological Debate". Her interests focus on the processes of creating social inequalities through the use and regulation of urban and rural spaces.

Paolo Contu

Professor of Hygiene and coordinator of the Class of Health Professions of Prevention, he leads at European level the international association that brings together professionals, academic and governmental institutions and organizations committed to improving the health and well-being of people through the development of skills, community action and public health policies. - Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health.

Paolo Contu

Professor of Hygiene and coordinator of the Class of Health Professions of Prevention at the University of Cagliari, he was elected for the three-year period 2019-2022 vice-president for Europe of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), the international association that brings together professionals, academic and governmental institutions and organizations committed to improving the health and well-being of people through the development of skills, community action and public health policies.

Andrea Corsale

Research interests on the geography of the population, ethnic minorities, diasporas, territorial identities, cultural heritage and tourism, with particular attention to the cities of Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. - Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory.

Andrea Corsale

Associate professor of Geography at the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari and teaches Human Geography and Geography and Didactics of Geography at the Faculty of Humanities. His research interests include population geography, ethnic minorities, diasporas, territorial identities, cultural heritage and tourism, with particular attention to cities in Central Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. On these issues he has participated in numerous research projects funded by European, national and regional institutions and has initiated numerous international collaborations, in particular in Ukraine, Romania, Poland and Israel.

Giuseppe Desogus

Engineer, designs energy-efficient buildings integrating the latest technologies for renewable energy sources. - Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Giuseppe Desogus

He graduated in Civil Engineering in 2000 and obtained his PhD in Building Engineering in 2006, with a thesis on "Design and construction criteria to improve energy saving in Mediterranean buildings". He is currently a researcher in Architectural Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari and holds courses in the same subject for both Architecture and Engineering students. His scientific interests concern the design and monitoring of energy efficient buildings and the integration of renewable energies. With reference to these subjects he has actively participated in several national and international scientific projects and is author and co-author of scientific books and articles published in national and international journals and proceedings.

Gianfranco Fancello

Engineer, expert in planning and management of both goods and people transport, coordinator of several national and international research projects. - Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Gianfranco Fancello

General Manager of Centralabs, Center of Excellence Transport of Sardinia, a consortium of companies with the University of Cagliari and Sassari and several public and private companies in the transport sector. Since 1992 he carries out research activities on the interaction between land use and transport, human factors related to the active and passive safety of transport, maritime transport, goods and supply chain. He is scientific coordinator and technical director of several national and international research projects. He has collaborated with several public administrations and some private companies for the development of projects and plans in the field of transport, traffic and mobility.

Simone Ferrari

Innovation, passion, interdisciplinary. Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Simone Ferrari

Engineer, European PhD in Territorial Engineering, Professor of Urban Microclimatic in Civil Engineering and Architecture, winner of two Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Union, entrepreneur (founder of Centro Panta Rei Sardegna). He deals, among other things, with fluid dynamics and urban microclimatic design (using the shape and layout of buildings to improve air quality, pollutant dispersion, energy efficiency and comfort).

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Ferdinando Fornara

Professor of Social Psychology and Environmental and Architectural Psychology His research interests include the construction and validation of tools for measuring the perceived quality of architectural-urbanistic factors of different types of places and the verification of multivariate models for the prediction of different types of pro-environmental behavior. - Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy.

Ferdinando Fornara

Associate Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy of the University of Cagliari, where he teaches Social Psychology (advanced course) and Environmental and Architectural Psychology. He is publisher and member of several international journals and associations for research in environmental psychology. His research interests include the construction and validation of tools for the measurement of the perceived quality of architectural-urbanistic factors of different types of places (such as hospitals, residences for the elderly and urban districts) and the verification of multivariate models for the prediction of different types of pro-environmental behavior.

Chiara Garau

Researcher in technical and urban planning, her research has focused on governance approaches in the development of smart cities and smart mobility. - Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Chiara Garau

Researcher in technical and urban planning and PhD in Territorial Engineering, from 2015 to 2019 she was scientific responsible for the project of international interest "Governing the smart city: a governance-centred approach to smart urbanism - GHOST. She has collaborated in several international projects and research studies on the development of Smart Cities. Her main research interests are focused on the scientific-disciplinary content of urban planning and technology, in particular on smart cities, urban and territorial governance tools and policies, cultural heritage and participatory processes.

Emilio Ghiani

Expert engineer in planning and implementation of Smart Grid in urban contexts, development of energy communities, promotion of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Emilio Ghiani

Associate Professor of Power System at the University of Cagliari. Current research interests concern the fields of planning and management of energy distribution systems and the development of tools for the integration of renewable energy sources and energy storage devices in smart grids. He is author of more than 80 papers published in international journals or presented at various national and international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the AEIT.

Michela Marignani

Professor and researcher, since 2011 she is national coordinator of the Ecology Group of the Italian Botanical Society and member of the Board of Directors of Planta Europa, a network of independent associations, governmental and non-governmental, which aims to preserve plant diversity in Europe. - Department of Life Sciences and Environment.

Michela Marignani

Professor and researcher in Applied and Environmental Botany, her main scientific interests are the management and use of floristic and vegetation data on GIS platforms for the selection of sites for diversity conservation, the multitassonomic approach, the effects of environmental fragmentation on plant diversity, the definition of ecological networks at different scales and the planning and effect of scale in the monitoring of environmental restoration interventions.

Daniele Marongiu

He is a researcher in administrative law and PhD in Computerized administrative activity and public communication law, and has as his privileged research topics the relationship between administrative law and technological innovation, institutional transparency and Internet law. His current research is focused on the profiles of artificial intelligence and the development of smart cities. - Department of Social Sciences and Institutions.

Daniele Marongiu

Researcher in administrative law at the University of Cagliari, where he holds the chair of "Legal Informatics for Public Administration" in the degree course in Administration and Organization Sciences, and collaborates regularly with the Spanish Universities of Toledo and Santiago de Compostela. Since 2006 he has been a PhD in "Law of Informatized Administrative Activity and Public Communication", and has as a privileged researcher the relationship between administrative law and technological innovation, institutional transparency and Internet law. His current research is focused on the profiles of artificial intelligence and the development of smart cities, topics in relation to which he designed the cycle of periodic seminars "Meetings on post-digital law". Among his publications are the books "L'attività amministrativa automatizzata" (Maggioli, 2005), "Il governo dell'informatica pubblica" (ESI, 2007), "Organizzazione e diritto di Internet" (Giuffré, 2013) and "Il copyright su Internet" (Maggioli, 2019).

Giuseppe Melis

Professor of Marketing and Tourist Marketing, his research interests are Marketing, Tourist Marketing, Destination Marketing, Brand Destination Management, Business Management, Value co-creation processes, Project Management. - Department of Economic and Business Sciences.

Giuseppe Melis

Professor of marketing, tourism marketing and communication. His research interests in the last five years have focused on the process of co-creation of value in tourist destinations and in particular on the relevance of collaboration and learning processes in the definition of territorial and business development strategies.

Luigi Mundula

Professor of Economic Geography, research activity on the policies of economic-territorial development deepening in particular the economic-territorial analysis and enhancement of the territory, decision support systems and participatory processes in public choices, competitiveness and sustainable development and efficiency and equity in public administration. – Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Luigi Mundula

Graduated in Engineering at the University of Cagliari (1996), Specialization course in "Urban Planning, Environment and Territory" at the University of Cagliari, Master in Economics and Institutions (2001) at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", PhD in Urban Planning Technique at the Sapienza University of Rome (2002), Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Sannio (2002-2004) and at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (2005-2006), coordinator of the observatory Smart Cities - Società Geografica Italiana e Roma Capitale (2013-2014), Aggregate Professor of Economic Policy (SECS-P02) at the University of Cagliari (since 2007). He is currently Research Fellow at the Tor Vergata Economics Foundation (since 2012), Research Fellow - CIREM at the University of Cagliari (since 2018), Research Fellow at the Digital Transformation Institute (since 2018), Aggregate Professor of Economic Geography (MGGR-02) at the University of Cagliari (since 2019) and eligible (since 2014) to the role of Associate Professor of Economic Geography (MGGR-02).

Davide Pisu

Architect and Researcher in Architectural Theory. Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Architecture.

Davide Pisu

Davide Pisu is a postdoctoral research fellow in Architectural Composition at the University of Cagliari. He has recently completed and discussed his doctoral research in Architectural Design Theory. He has been teaching in design studio and technology classes at the University of Cagliari and has been Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. His researches focus on the relationship between architecture and rulemaking and the design of the spaces of information.

Emanuela Quaquero

I am Strongly interested in research and experimentation in the field of digitization of the construction industry and Building Information Modeling. The involvement and passion for these issues lead me to the continuous research of new methods and advanced technologies for the management of the building process. - Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture Engineering.

Emanuela Quaquero

Engineer, PhD in Building Engineering, RTDA temporary researcher at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture Engineering for the competitive sector 08/C1 Design and Technological Design of Architecture, qualified as associate professor. His scientific activity is focused on the specific themes of SSD ICAR 11 - Building Production. He holds two courses at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari.

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Diego Reforgiato Recupero

Programmatore, sviluppatore software e esperto ICT. Ha due lauree in Informatica prese all’Università di Catania e un PhD preso all’Università di Napoli Federico II. Ha esperienza di ricerca lungo una vasta serie di progetti Italiani, FP7 e H2020 nel campo dell’ICT, Risparmio Energetico nelle Reti di Telecomunicazioni e Smart Grids, Robotica e Semantic Web. – Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica.

Diego Reforgiato Recupero

Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (DMI) of the University of Cagliari (UNICA) since December 2015. I am director and founder of the laboratory of Human-Robot-Interaction (http://hri.unica.it), co-director e co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data laboratory (http://aibd.unica.it), co-director of the Semantic Web laboratory (http://swlab.unica.it/), responsible of the Quality Management at DMI, and member of the Patents and Spin-off commission at UNICA. I teach “Computer Architecture”, “Big Data”, “Deep Learning and Applications” at the computer science degree of UNICA.

Alessandro Spano

Full Professor of Business Administration, PhD in Economics and Management of Public Companies. His research interests include management control systems, business information systems, business analytics, performance measurement and evaluation, process analysis, healthcare management, blockchain. - Department of Economics and Business Sciences.

Alessandro Spano

Full Professor of Business Administration. He teaches in various undergraduate and postgraduate programs and in training courses for private companies, public and non-profit organizations in business economics. President of the International Business Studies Exchange Network (IBSEN) a consortium of ten universities from ten different countries. He is co-founder and CEO of Chain Factory Srl, a university spin-off focused on blockchain and other digital technologies. He is founder and head of the SAP Next-Gen chapter on Blockchain and an active member of the SAP Academic Alliance. He is responsible for the information systems lab within the SEA department. He is also an active member of the Celonis Academic Alliance.

Marcello Tanca

Associate Professor of Geography at the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari.

Marcello Tanca

Associate Professor of Geography at the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari. He published in 2012 Geography and Philosophy. Working materials and in 2019 Geography and Fiction. Opera, film, song and comics (Franco Angeli) and several scientific essays focusing on landscape, the role of geography within the cultural dynamics of modernity, the relationship between geographical knowledge and philosophy.

Corrado Zoppi

Civil Engineer, PhD in Economics and PhD in Spatial Planning. It deals with several research topics including regional and urban environmental planning with a reflection on the ontological approach applied to the detailed plans of Historic Centers, and to the SEA and Impact Assessment processes. – Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture Engineering.

Corrado Zoppi

He is Professor of Technology and Urban Planning at the University of Cagliari. He currently holds the First Level Degree and the Master's Degree in Environmental and Territorial Engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architecture Engineering of the University of Cagliari. He is currently President of the Council of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari.

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