Tali Hatuka, an architect and urban planner, is the Head (and founder) of the Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Design (LCUD), in the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. Her work focuses primarily on two main fields of research: the urban realm and society (public space, conflicts and dissent); and urban development and city design (housing, landscape design, and industrial areas). She has worked as an architect and a planner on a planning project related urban development and city design, funded by Israeli municipalities and ministries.
Cristina Mattiucci is an architect and Adjunct Professor in Territorial Planning at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. Her research focus is landscape in its multiple meanings, with a predilection for its feature of inhabited territory and public space as it emerges in contemporary urbanization processes.
