Antonella Radicchi
Job Title: Senior Research Associate
Institutional affiliation: Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Antonella Radicchi is an architect and urbanist, passionate about cities and different cultures, and over the years, has worked in the academic and practice sectors in Germany, Italy and the US.
Her research work explores the relationships between people and the urban environment. Specifically, she experiments with creative and participatory methods and tools to study how human experience is affected by the urban environment and how this knowledge can be used to inform policy-making and urban design for healthier, more sustainable cities.
Since 2017, she has been the inventor and curator of Hush City, an award-winning citizen science app, developed in response to an unresolved issue at the European environmental policy level: the identification and protection of quiet urban areas.
Dr Radicchi was a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar at MIT in Boston; a Post-Doctoral Marie Curie Fellow at TU Berlin; and a HEAD Genuit Foundation Senior Research Fellow at TU Berlin and at the New York University in New York.
Her research work was awarded international recognitions and presented in international media such as BBC Future, World Economic Forum, The Atlantic, Citylab, Der Spiegel, WIRED.
She is a licensed architect and holds a PhD in Urban Design and Territorial Planning.
Publications
Radicchi, A. et al. (Eds.). “Sound and the Healthy City.” Special issue of Cities & Health Journal (Routledge) 5, Issue 1-2 (2021): 1-209. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2020.1821980?src=recsys
Radicchi, A. “Combined Sound and Light Walks. A novel, mixed method to assess the sonic and light urban environment at night .” In Experiential Walks for Urban Design. Revealing, Representing, and Activating the Sensory Environment, edited by B. E. A., Siret, D., Thibaud, J-P. Piga. Spring International Publishing, in press, forthcoming 2021.
Radicchi, A. “Berlino Swim City? Riflessioni in cammino lungo la Sprea a Berlino (Is Berlin a Swim City? Reflections on a walk along the Spree River).” Ecowebtown. Journal of Sustainable Design, no. 21 (2020). http://www.ecowebtown.it/n_21/07.html
Radicchi, A. “The notion of soundscape in the realm of sensuous urbanism. A historical perspective.” In Sound Worlds from the Body to the City: Listen!, edited by A. Wilson, 99-125. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2019. ISBN: 978- 1527523883