Gilda Convertino

• BIO
• Gilda Convertino is an Italian born licensed architect and member of the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture, operating within landscape, urbanism and architecture with a human centered approach. She is particularly focused on the relationship between public spaces and community and at the higher scale level, how it fits into urban regeneration processes. Trained in a cross cultural context between Germany, Italy and Spain, she graduated M.Sc. Architecture with full marks at the University of Florence, she studied at Technische Universität in Berlin and furthermore, she specialized in Landscape Architecture with a post-graduation programme at IUAV in Venice. Interested to investigate the contemporary relationship between built environment and people's quality of life, in 2013 she founded URBANGLITCH, a research project about cities and society.

• CONTACT
• Email: info@gildaconvertino.com

“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship — around participation in public life.” Rebecca Solnit • Wanderlust: A History of Walking