Corrado Diamantini

Corrado Diamantini is member of the UNESCO Chair in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development at the University of Trento and Scientific Collaborator within the European Project MUDAR – Mozambique Integrated Urban Development by Actions and Relationships: Empowering Local Government. 

During his past academic career, he was Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Trento, where he held the positions of Head of the School in Engineering for the Environment and the Territory and Deputy Director of the School in Local Development. He was a member of the Executive Board of ENSURE - European Network for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development and a member of the Executive Board of SIU - Italian Society of Urban Planners. He was Research Fellow at the Eduardo Mondlane University of Maputo as part of the Erasmus Mundus Program and  a member of the Group of the National Experts in the Area of Architecture in the Research Quality Assessment (VQR) 2011 – 2014. Previously he carried out teaching and research activities at the IUAV University in Venice and at the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo.

He was coordinator of research units in numerous researches projects financed by the European Union, the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, the Italian National Research Council and the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures, including: REGIONET - Strategies for Regional Sustainable Development; ENSPADS - Expanding Expertise Network for generating and sharing Knowledge related to Spatial Planning and Decision Support; EASY ECO - Evaluation of Sustainability; ITATEN - Structure and Transformations of the Italian territory; QUATER - The Italy of plans; ITATER - Italian territorial structure by 2020; Environmental project in fringe areas: Integration between urban and environmental processes; Coherence between the Spatial Representations of Planners and the Spatial Images of Local Societies; Contemporary Approaches to Planning; RECYCLE ITALY – New Life Cycles for City and Landscape Architectures and Infrastructures.

Research and design activities include the Study for the Regeneration of the Historic Center of Naples after the earthquake, carried out within the Department of Economic and Social Analysis (DAEST) of the IUAV University. Among the activities within the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM) of the University of Trento there is the scientific coordination of projects as the Project for the Sustainable Development of Trentino region; the Environmental Sensitivity Information System of Trentino region; the Brenta River Redevelopment Project; the Territorial Plan of the Rotaliana-Königsberg Community and the Town Plan of Roncegno.

Non-university activities include the Plan for the Lagoon and the Hinterland of Venice as a member of the Executive Board of the Consortium of the involved Municipalities; the membership in the Committee for the Environment of the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Vice-chairmanship of the NGO Consortium of Associations with Mozambique.

Decades of research and planning experience in Africa, mainly carried out in the context of the university and development cooperation activities, include the scientific coordination of the drafting of the District Plan of Caia, Mozambique and of the Towns Plans of Caia and Sena, Mozambique. And again, the collaboration on the Project for the improvement of accesses to rural areas in Madagascar and the Project for the regeneration of Tabriquet-Nord in Rabat. He was also involved in drafting the Addis Ababa Master Plan, as a permanent member of the Addis Ababa Master Plan Project Office. The research activity includes, among others, The Role of Small and Medium-sized Urban Centers in Mozambique; The Urbanization in Sub Saharan Africa; The Role of Informal Sector in the Cities of  Developing Countries. He carried out research activity at the African Institute for Development and Planning in Dakar, at that time directed by Samir Amin and was co-founder and professor of the Post Graduate Program in Urban and Regional planning for Developing Countries of the IUAV University of Venice.