Mathilde Marengo

Mathilde Marengo is an Australian–French–Italian PhD Architect whose research focuses on the Contemporary Urban Phenomenon, its integration with technology, and its implications on the future of our planet.

Within today’s critical environmental, social, and economic framework, she investigates the responsibility of designers in answering these challenges through circular and metabolic design.

She is Head of Studies, Co-director of the Master in City & Technology, Faculty and PhD Supervisor at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Mathilde develops her research at IAAC’s Advanced Architecture Group (AAG), an interdisciplinary research group investigating emerging technologies of information, interaction, and manufacturing for the design and transformation of cities, buildings, and public spaces. Within this context, she investigates, designs, and experiments with innovative educational formats based on holistic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-scalar design approaches, oriented towards materialization, within the AAG agenda of redefining the paradigm of design education in the Information and Experience Age.