Labsimurb Scientific Coordinator, Associate Professor
An architect by education, Eugenio Morello is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design and since 2025 has been the Chair of the Doctoral Programme in Urban Planning, Design and Policy (UPDP) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (Dastu), Politecnico di Milano. He is the coordinator and research scientist at the ‘Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti’, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (Dastu). Since 2020 is also the scientific coordinator of the ‘Climate Change Risk and Resilience Lab’ at Dastu. For the Department he is and has been the responsible investigator of several European and national projects.
In the period 2017-2022, he was the Rector’s Delegate for environmental sustainability and responsible for institutional projects toward a sustainable campus. He was previously a Roberto Rocca postdoctoral fellow at the Human Space Lab, Polimi (2009), and at the SENSEable City Lab, MIT (2008). Earlier, he was an adjunct professor at Polimi (2006-2009), where he taught sustainable urban design. He holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Design for Environmental Quality at the Building and Urban Scale from Polimi (2006).
His research interest is situated in the interplay between urban design and planning and environmental quality, climate design, resilience, and adaptation to climate change. He investigates the integration of environmental aspects and urban transition solutions for the design of sustainable communities and cities toward the closing of energy and environmental cycles. In particular, he focuses on the assessment of environmental resources and renewable sources (mainly solar and biomass) and their spatial implications at the local and regional scale. He is also working on strategic planning for sustainability and localizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in master-planning design schemes and Higher Education Institutions. More recently, his research has opened new insights into collaborative consumption and sharing society and how these new paradigms can inform urban governance, planning, urban design, and co-design approaches.
For the Department, he is and has been the responsible investigator of several European projects, in particular the startup Horizon Europe project ‘URSOILL’ (2025-2030), the ongoing projects ‘GOCCIA’ (2024-2028), under the European Urban Initiative, and the EU Erasmus+ project ‘ProGREENLabs’ (2024-2027). He also led the now-completed Horizon Europe project ‘NATI00NS’ (2022-2024), the Horizon 2020 projects ‘CLEVER Cities’ (2018-2023) and ‘Sharing Cities’ (2016-2021) and the Urban Innovative Action (UIA) project Air-Break (2020-2023). He is the department’s scientific supervisor of the Horizon 2020 MSCA ‘MultiCAST’ (2022-2025) project, led by Nicola Colaninno, focusing on thermal-related urban climate analysis and simulation. Across these projects, he is responsible for citizen engagement strategies, co-creation pathways, and living lab activities related to urban sustainability and transition.
At the national level, he is the principal investigator of the project ‘F.AIR: Fragile AIR – Unfair Health’, a project assessing access to healthy environments from schools to communities, funded by Fondazione Cariplo (2025/26). Previously, he was the principal investigator and coordinator of the research project ‘AP+A: Aree Produttive, Aree Proadattive’, funded by the Italian Ministry of the Environment (2020-2022). For the Department, he also led the research activities for the projects ‘Climate change and territory: guidelines and operational proposals for the Metropolitan City of Milan’ and ‘Towards climate-proof landscapes for living and working’, both funded by Fondazione Cariplo (2017/18; 2018/19), initiating pathways toward metropolitan resilience.
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