The research-project of Giorgia Aquilar fits into the intersection of two Focus Areas of the Department of Architecture: Urban and Landscape Transformation: exploring spatial strategies which have the potential to intervene productively in the ongoing transformation of cities and landscapes, and Cultural Heritage, History and Criticism: exploring 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 wants to further develop at TUM and in the city of Munich under the title: Urban Heritage among Remembering, Recycling, and Reinvention.
Aquilar is an architect with a Ph.D. in Urban Design. She is research fellow at the University IUAV of Venice and adjunct professor at the University of Naples Federico II. At the IUAV, she is currently working for UNESCO to draft the "Regional Report on Urban Conservation and Regeneration in Europe," which will be delivered at the UN Habitat III Conference.
Georgia Aquilar started the Fellowship at 01.03.2016.