Valentina Orioli

Architect and PhD, she is Associate professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture. In 2021-2024 she has been councilor at the Municipality of Bologna in charge of New mobility, infrastructures, public transport, 30 km/h City, protection of cultural heritage and historical gardens. In the previous administrative mandate 2016-21 she was councilor in charge of Urban Planning, Environment, Nomination of "I Portici di Bologna" to Unesco WHL and deputy mayor since 2020.

Her teaching and research activities focus on understanding and experimenting with tools for the design and management of urban and territorial transformations, from a perspective that centers on physical space and the communities that inhabit it, drawing on both disciplinary tradition and the history of the cities and territories that are the subject of study.

She is President of Urban@it, a National center for urban policy studies based at the University of Bologna and a member of the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT).