Dr Manfredo Manfredini is a Director and an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of The University of Auckland, New Zealand; a Doctoral Professor (Adjunct) at Shanghai University, China; an Honorary Professor at Hunan University, China; Programme Director of Architecture; Co-Director of the Urban Design Hub of the University of Auckland and of the Urban Design Workgroup of the City and Landscape Hub of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities – APRU; Associate Director of The Journal of Public Space (2021-24); and a Registered Architect and Urban Planner.
Dr Manfredini studied at Politecnico di Milano, La Sapienza University, Rome, and Technical University, Berlin. His core expertise in comparative/conjunctural urbanism and critical architectural design focuses on the contemporary transformation of spatial production processes. Working at the intersection of architecture and urban design, his research integrates methods and practice that combine cultural approaches with digitally advanced components (e.g. big data analytics) in three complementary areas: (i) urban relational informatics – public space and translocal cities’ for the development of transdisciplinary conjunctural and comparative studies of fundamental social infrastructure, public space and urban commons of the multiscalar and recombinant “planetary urbanisation” age; (ii) co-creative design for the collaborative production of emergent spatialities in our progressively mediatised, translocalised and transcultural society through speculative approaches and X-reality methodologies; (iii) recombinant equitable, resilient and sustainable public space and commons for the implementation of multistakeholder incremental participatory processes of urban regeneration through post-typological political ecology frameworks.