Valentina Orioli

Architect and PhD, she is Associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture, and councilor at the Municipality of Bologna in charge of New mobility, infrastructures, liveability and care of public space, valorization of cultural heritage and Unesco Porticoes, Green handprint project and urban parks. 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 are aimed at the knowledge and experimentation of tools for the design and governance of urban and regional transformations, in a perspective that focuses on physical space and its regeneration and draws on the comparison with the disciplinary tradition but also with urban history. She is Vice President of Urban@it, a National center for urban policy studies based at the University of Bologna.