Chiara Cicchianni (she/her) applies her background in urban planning, spatial analysis, and policy design to explore how societal infrastructures and community practices can enable just and sustainable transitions.  She has also been focusing on the complex question of the energy transition at the district level. She has been part of Architecture Workroom Brussels since 2018, where she works on projects that connect research, design, and governance, often through speculative mapping, drawing, and storytelling. 

Within AWB, Chiara has contributed to a wide range of transition-oriented projects related to healthy foodscapes, circularity, energy, and broader societal transformations. She has been involved in international and local research trajectories such as the North Sea Port District, Circular (City) Ports, Urbanising in Place, and JPI Cities4PED, and was part of the curatorial team of the recent exhibitions and debate settings Prefiguration and Operation Energy Neighbourhood.

Since 2023, Chiara has also been a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven. She studied at Tongji University in Shanghai and at Politecnico di Milano, where her master’s thesis examined the role of transformative welfare services and public space in supporting community-led processes of urban regeneration.

Selected projects:

Brussels Urban Landscape Biennale (2018) 
Circular (City) Ports (2018 – 2020) 
Towards and agroecological urbanism  (2018-2022) 
JPI Cities4PEDs / PED toolkit  (2021–2023) 
Prefigurations (2022) 
Future Generations Lab, Stadhuis Leuven (2023-2024) 
Guide to accelerate the energy transition in existing urban neighbourhoods and village centres (2024) 
Operatie Energiewijken  (2024–2025)