Head of Studies / USL Director / MUPD (formerly MaCT) Co-Director (she/her)
Mathilde Marengo is an Australian–French–Italian PhD Architect whose research focuses on enabling spatial justice in cities by leveraging advanced technologies to bridge data gaps and enable designers and decision makers to leverage these and integrate the perspectives of all, both humans and more than humans, into urban planning towards the development of evidence-based, inclusive, and just urban futures.
She is Head of Studies, Faculty and PhD Supervisor at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), researching, designing, and experimenting with innovative educational formats based on holistic, multi-disciplinary and multi-scalar design approaches, redefining the paradigm of design education within the context of the climate crisis, rapid technological development and planetary urbanisation.
At IAAC, she also directs the Urban Sciences Lab (USL), a research group that enhances the creative practice of urban design through data-driven methodologies. The USL explores urban design intelligence within the contexts of urban ecologies and regenerative landscapes; urban communities and public space; and urban analytics and spatial justice, pioneering the transition of the urban environment in the era of big data. As part of her work in the USL, she co-directs IAAC’s Master's in Advanced Urban Planning & Data Analytics.
Her investigation is also actuated through her role in several National and EU-funded research projects, as well as being published and exhibited internationally.
