The research-project of Giorgia Aquilar fits into the intersection of two Focus Areas of the TUM Department of Architecture. Her postdoctoral research project is titled "U.L.TRA. HERITAGE - Urban Landscape TRAnformations of Heritage ".
Giorgia Aquilar explores the spatial strategies which have the potential to intervene productively in the ongoing transformation of cities and landscapes, and Cultural Heritage, History and Criticism: She investigates the historic and cultural dimension and the existent built environment which provides a key for contemporary intervention. Her previous engagement at the IUAV University of Venice through an agreement with UNESCO - title of the research: Heritage and the Contemporary City – is already in this field of research, which she to further developed at TUM and in the city of Munich under the title "Urban Heritage".
Giorgia Aquilar will continue this research as part of the Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Chair for Urban Development and Regional Planning, Prof. Sophie Wolfrum.
A Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers allows to carry out long-term research in Germany. Applicants choose their own topic of research and their academic host.