RESEARCH PROJECTS
2020-2022
Infrastructural and Strategic Strengthening of the Somali National University. Reconstruction of the Gahayr Campus in Mogadishu. Masterplan Concept Design. Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Civil Engineer. Scientific coordination: Niccolò Aste and Laura Montedoro.
2019-2020
Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo! Polisocial Award 2018.
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination: Laura Montedoro. Project manager: Maria Cristina Rulli.
2017-2018
West Nile Region MetroHUB Initative.
UN-Habitat MetroHUB + Politecnico di Milano. Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination and project management: Stephanie Loose and Antonella Contin.
2018
MetroGame. A metropolitan decision making game for sustainable development.
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination and project management: Alessandro Frigerio and Antonella Contin.
2016-2017
Rurban Zanzibar. Mkokotoni-Mkwajuni agri-cultural node.
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination and project management: Alessandro Frigerio and Antonella Contin.
2014-2015
Capo Delgado growing smart.
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination and project management: Antonella Contin
2011-2012/2018
Dar Smart. Eco-armatures for a rapidly urbanizing African metropolis.
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination and project management: Antonella Contin and Alessandro Frigerio.
2009-2010
Yenikapi. Architecture, infrastructure, archaeology.
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
Scientific coordination and project management: Antonella Contin
EXHIBITIONS
2019
African Speculations.
Italian edition (with Simona Galateo) of the exhibition by the University of Pennsylvania,
School of Design, curated by Javier Arpa and Christopher Marcinkoski.
Politecnico di Milano, Galleria del Progetto, April – May 2019.
PHOTO-ESSAYS
Maputo Modern Heritage
Maputo, Mozambique – 2019-20
Maputo Informal Growth
Maputo, Mozambique – 2020
Maputo Province Landscape
Boane+Moamba+Namaacha, Mozambique – 2019-20
Mkwajuni-Mkokotoni Rurban Growth
Zanzibar, Tanzania – 2018
Stone Town Architectural Heritage
Zanzibar, Tanzania – 2017
Kya Sands Informal Settlement
Johannesburg, South Africa – 2015
Teheran Urban Landscapes
Teheran, Iran – 2015
Yenikapı Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey – 2010
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
2021
A.Frigerio, Urban Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa. Thoughts around right to housing, critical urbanization, and sensitive densification. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuCPnAtT05M] BK Talks ‘7 Billion at Home: Housing in a Fully Urbanized planet’ . TU Delft – European Cultural Center, Palazzo Mora, Venice, 22 Settembre 2021
L. Montedoro, A. Buoli, A.Frigerio, C. Trindade, Reconceptualizing Spatial Planning by Academic International Cooperation. A Joint Research and Pedagogical Experience by Politecnico di Milano and Mondlane University in Maputo. 5th AAPS Conference. Urban Africa in the 21st Century. Current issues and Future Prospects of Urban Governance and Planning, 18-20 Novembre 2021
A.Frigerio, Paesaggio Urbano. Per una ridefinizione del rapporto tra architettura e natura. Verso uno sviluppo urbano sostenibile. SPAM 03. Festival dell’Architettura di Roma. Ecological Transition. Ordine degli Architetti di Roma, Roma, 25 Luglio 2020
A.Frigerio, A.Buoli, L. Montedoro, “Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo!” Investigating strategic planning and design tools to deal with (un)balanced rural-urban development in Maputo Province. EURA 2020 conference Contradictions Shaping Urban Futures. Sustainable vs unsustainable urban development and growth vs degrowth, 06-07 Maggio 2021
2020
A.Frigerio, L. Montedoro, Upgrading informal settlements in Maputo. An investigation about recent urban and architectural experiences. Southern Africa City Conference 2020, Johannesburg 01-04 Settembre 2020
2019
A.Frigerio, Istanbul: gateway e gatekeeper tra Europa e Asia. Implicazioni socio-spaziali della crisi migratoria siriana.
IX Giornata di Studio “Confin(at)i. Oltre la Globalizzazione”. Società Studi Geografici. Università di Trieste. 13 Dicembre 2019
F.Curci, A.Frigerio, F.Manfredini, S.Saloriani, Exploring geospatial data issues from the Global Souths perspective. Approaches, sources and methodologies.
Fondazione Enrico Mattei, School Souths of the World, Milano, 5 Novembre 2019
A.Buoli, A.Frigerio, L.Montedoro, Boa Ma Nhã, Maputo! Exploring the Water- Energy-Food nexus for a sustainable territorial development in a fragmented and fragile metropolitan area in the Global South.
6th CUCS conference Citizenship and Common Goods. Università di Trento19-21 Settembre 2019.
A.Frigerio, L.Montedoro, S.Galateo, Beyond Rethoric: Unpacking African Urbanisms.
International Seminar in the framework of the initiative Sopravvivere alla città. Apprendere dall’Africa, Politecnico di Milano DAStU e Fondazione Feltrinelli, 4-5 April 2019.
2018
A.Frigerio, The political correlations of mapping: boundaries and rights. Thoughts around a case study in the West-Nile Region, Uganda.
Transdisciplinary Talks on Boundaries: Towards a New Lexicon, seminar curated by Luca Gaeta and Alice Buoli, Fondazione Feltrinelli e DAStU, 11-12 October 2018
A.Frigerio, Democratic Infrastructure and Metropolitan Civic Robustness.
Democratic Infrastructure. An Evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development, seminar curated by Sara Favargiotti, Università di Trento, International Cooperation Center, 13 September 2018
A. Frigerio, Ripensare i confine per superare le disuguaglianze.
About a City. Places Ideas and Rights for 2030 citizens. Roundtable: rethinking and moving boundaries, curated by Luca Gaeta. 24 May 2018
A.Frigerio, Metropolitan frameworks of civic robustness.
Planning Studio in Arua. A Capacity Development for Ugandan Government Officials. UN-Habitat MetroHUB and Politecnico di Milano, 20-22 March 2018
A.Frigerio, UrbAfrican.
Feltrinelli Camp, Pushing the borders Roundtable. Fondazione Feltrinelli. 16-17 February 2018
A.Frigerio. The METROGAME!
The rules of the metropolitan game. A Discipline for an integrated approach to the metropolitan complexity, MetroHUB UN-Habitat, Politecnico di Milano, CIPPEC, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), World Association of the Major Metropolises (Metropolis), Universidad de Guadalajara. World Urban Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Feb 2018
2017
A.Frigerio, A. Sammartino, Malindi and the Others: a problematic relationship shaping the city. A project for the transformation of the water-front as socio-ecological infrastructure.
NAERUS 2017, What Urban in a Hyper-connected Global South?, Politecnico di Milano, September 2017
V. Bini, M. Bottiglieri, E. Dansero, A. Frigerio, A. Magarini, Y. Nicolarea, Le politiche urbane del cibo come terreno di cooperazione internazionale: il caso delle città africane.
XXXII Congresso geografico italiano, Roma, 7 – 10 Giugno 2017
A.Frigerio, Urbanizzazione rapida nell’Africa orientale:solidità metropolitana e tendenze dei modelli informali.
FOCUS AFRICA. Le sfide alle discipline del progetto. Politecnico di Milano, 11 Aprile 2017
2016
A.Frigerio, Facing rapid urbanization: a century of East-African Urbanism.
17th IPHS Conference, History-Urbanism-Resilience, TU Delft 17-21 July 2016.
A.Frigerio, A.Sammartino, Paesaggi socioecologici e resilienza metropolitana.
SIEP-IALE 2016 Challenges of Anthropocene and the role of Landscape Ecology, Asti June 2016.
2015
A.Frigerio, Ordering East-African rapid urbanization. Civic robustness and informality gradient patterns.
Urban Africa. L’Africa delle città. Università di Torino. Centro piemontese di Studi Africani, Associazione per gli studi africani in Italia. 16-17 October 2015
A.Frigerio, Balancing Order and Growth in East-Africa.
Transforming Johannesburg. Wits University, Johannesburg. 13 September 2015
A.Frigerio, Ordering East-African rapid urbanization. Metropolitan architecture: civic robustness and in/formality gradient patterns.
NUL New Urban Languages. TU Delft. 24 June 2015
M.Bernardi, R.Ferorelli, A.Frigerio, C.Galbersanini, J.B.Geissler, E.Lombardo, E.Longoni, E.Ricciuti, G.Tagiuri, L.Zoboli, Philantropy can change the world (?).
European Foundation Center Annual General Assembly, Milan, May 2015.
2014
A.Frigerio, African Urbanism: research questions and opportunities for a sustainable development.
AFRICA – ITALIA Un’idea di sviluppo condiviso. Tavola Rotonda. Triennale di Milano and Politecnico di Milano. 18 December 2014
A.Frigerio, Food and the city. Conviviality patterns and formality-gradient urbanism.
East/West Dialogue 2014 ’The Urban Interiors of Asian Metropolis’ alla Biennale di Venezia 2014, Padiglione Svizzero, Tung Hai University di Taiwan and Politecnico di Milano. 28 July 2014
A.Frigerio, Il progetto per l’isola della cultura di Vaprio d’Adda.
1st International Parks Festival. Parco Adda Nord, Comune di Trezzo sull’Adda. May 2014
2012
A.Frigerio, Dar Smart. Eco-armatures for exploding African metropolis.
TU Delft – EAAE/ISUF – New Urban Configurations. EAAE / ISUF International Conference, TU Delft, The Netherlands, October 2012
