Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo

PhD, Master in Architectural and Urban Studies
Prof. of Landscape Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Prof. of Architectural and Urban Design Studio 3, Politecnico di Milano
Prof. of Urban Design Studio 4, Faculty of Architecture, Genoa
Founder of WeakCircus
Founder of O-n_ Experiments in Weakness Theory
Founder and Director of B.L.U.E. Building Landscape Urbanism
Founder of Terraviva Program

Graham Foundation Grant Recipient in 2014, She is Adjunct Professor of Landscape Design and Architectural and Urban Design at the
Politecnico di Milano and at University of Genoa.
She researches experimental ecological design and its theoretical implications.
In 2015 and 2016 she is selected and invited candidate for the WheelWright Prize, award of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University, the research grant that is awarded annually to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent,
produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work inside the international panorama of
Design.
She is the curator of main academic course and conferences on the experimental role of Nature in urban design (among the others,
Landscape in Art and Science, May-June 2016; Nature thought the Mirror, Oct.2015; Nov. 2015).