Mr Valerio Signorelli

Research Associate

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

Faculty of the Built Environment

Joined UCL: 4th Jul 2016

Research summary

My research interests focus on sensory urbanism, specifically on the multisensory integration between visual and auditory modalities, and digital simulation tools for visualising urban data sets in their temporal, sensory and spatial peculiarities.

Aim of my research is to understand how tools and devices, developed in disciplines not directly linked with the urban studies, can be conceived as effective solutions able to describe, through experiential simulations and multimodal representations, the everyday users’ experiences in the urban atmospheres.

Education

Politecnico di Milano: PhD, Urban Planning | 2013
Politecnico di Milano: MSc, Architecture/Urban Design | 2009

Biography

An Architect by training, Valerio is Research Associate at CASA (University College London). He holds a M.Sc in Architecture and Urban Design (2009) and a Ph.D. in Territorial Design and Government (2013) from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at the Politecnico di Milano. His research profile, based on an interdisciplinary research approach between social sciences and the computer science domain, has been defined by the research conducted at the international research groups: Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana ‘Fausto Curti’, at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2007-2013), and laboratory AAU (Ambiances Architectures Urbanités), research group CRENAU, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes, France (2014-2016). Valerio is member of the International Ambiances Network.

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