DAMIANO CERRONE

Urbanist CoFounder of SPIN Unit and UrbanistAI / Research at Tampere University





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A vision for a planetary city


SPIN Unit ︎ Estonian Centre for Architecture

2022 // Tallinn
A commissioned research and exhibition for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale titled Tallinn 1.5: A Vision for a Planetary City. Our work presented a specualtive masterplan for a food self-sufficient city, displaying what Tallinn would look like if it produced all the food it needed to sustain itself.

National study of shrinking patters in Estonia


SPIN Unit ︎ Estonian Ministry of Economy and Communication.

2022 // Estonia
A national study commissioned by the Estonian Ministry of Economy and Communication to map and unpack the complexity of shrinking cities from the building to the national scale.

National study of shrinking patters in Estonia


SPIN Unit ︎ Estonian Ministry of Economy and Communication.

2022 // Estonia
A participatory planning process to activate the high-street community with UrbanistAI. This was the first pilot to develop the use of generative AI technologies for participation and codesign.

The new modal


Demos Helsinki ︎ Harjumaa region.

2021 // Estonia
A regional mobility study of public transport stops to assess supply, demand and efficiency across the region. This project also provided a policy framework for the local government to improve the equity of public transport across the region.

Narva youth’s vision


SPIN Unit ︎ City of Narva

2020 // Estonia
A participatory design series with 300 children in Narva. First, we educated the pupils on participatory planning, secondly we organised a series of exercises to map their mental image of the city and eventually, even eventually we concluded with a co-design session to reimagine the future of their city. This was project was the proof-of-concept of ︎︎︎UrbanistAI.




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