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, 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 in City & Technology.

Her investigation is also actuated through her role in several National and EU funded research projects, as well as being published and exhibited internationally.