Cecilia De Marinis is an architect, researcher, and educator, with a PhD in Urban Sustainable Design. Her interests are in urban regeneration, public space dynamics and the interplay between people and space, as well as in design research and experimental pedagogy.

She is co-founder of Rhizoma Design and Research Lab, a space for research and design in the urban environment, based in Barcelona (SP), Rome (IT), and Melbourne (AU).

Currently, Cecilia is the Coordinator of the Master in Design Research and the GREDITS research group at BAU, College of Arts & Design Barcelona. Prior to joining BAU, she was a Lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University (from 2018 to 2022), where she pursued her research interests and established her educational profile, especially focusing on innovation in design research methods. Cecilia’s investigation on design research and education started in 2015 when she joined RMIT Europe Barcelona (SP) as a Post-doc Research Fellow within the European project ADAPT-r ITN followed by her joining RMIT University in Melbourne (AU) in 2017 as a Post-doc Research Fellow within the DAP_r project.

Outcomes of her work have been published in academic journals, presented at international conferences, and exhibited in different institutions in Europe, Australia and the US.