Ginelli Elisabetta

Full Professor of Technological and Environmental Design in Architecture (CEAR-08/C), she teaches at the AUIC School – School of Architettura, Urbanistica e Ingegneria delle Costruzioni of Politecnico di Milano.Her research activity within the ABC Department focuses on building and component-scale studies on process and product innovation for the transformation and enhancement of the built environment.She coordinates research activities on circularity in the construction sector, including design experiments and realized prototypes such as cHOMgenius, currently hosting the experimental unit OFFLAB HARD – CirceDC, for which she has served as Scientific Director since 2025.She is a member of the ITACA Working Group for the update of UNI/PdR 13:2026, contributing in particular to the criteria related to adaptability and disassemblability.Since 2016, she has been Editor-in-Chief of the book series Materiali di Architettura e di Urbanistica (Mimesis). She is also a member of editorial boards of academic journals and the author of over one hundred scientific publications.

Career

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, Milan Polytechnic. Master's Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, Milan Polytechnic. PhD in Technical Innovation and Architectural Design, Milan Polytechnic. PhD in Technical Innovation and Architectural Design, Milan Polytechnic.

Research

Research Areas:

• Regeneration and transformability of built heritage over time; design of distribution layouts (for new construction and renovation) geared towards adaptability and convertibility over time, and new ways of living.
• Technological innovation in processes, projects, and products, and design for reuse.
• Development of innovative construction systems and solutions based on circularity.
• Development of disassembled, reversible, and multifunctional components/products.
• Feasibility analysis and assessment of the "circular" quality of construction systems, components, and products.

KW: Circularity, adaptability, reversibility, functional and constructive convertibility, disassembly.

International and national scientific framework: ERC PE8 sectors: Products and Processes Engineering: Product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy systems, material engineering.

KW: Sustainable Design, Design for Circularity, Design for Adaptability, Design for Disassembly.

SDG Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

SDG Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy

SDG Goal 9: Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

SDG Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

SNSvS 5P Prosperity SSN II_ II.3_SSN IV_IV.1_SSN VI_VI.1 Vector 2. Goal 1_ Goal 4

Selected Publications

1. Ginelli, E., Daglio, D. (eds) (2025), Design for Circularity. Experimentation and Innovation for the Construction Sector, OpenAccess Gold, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano-Udine.

2. Vignati, G., Pozzi, G., Daglio, L., Ginelli, E. (2025), The practice of design as a vehicle for knowledge, between university and professional practice, in TECHNE Journal, 30, Firenze University Press, Firenze.

3. Ginelli, E., Pozzi, G., Vignati, G., Gavazzi, B., Raimondi, S. (2025), Coliving pour l’autodétermination: vivre la relation solidaire entre femmes en quête d'autonomie, in L. Buondonno, A. Giachetta (eds.) Cohabitat et coworking pour les femmes victimes de violence et les personnes fragilisées. Repenser les espaces de vie et de travail dans la reconstruction de soi, OpenAccess, Genova University Press, Genova.

4. Ginelli, E., Daglio, L., Zinna, F. (2024), A regulatory culture for design. For a systemic quality of transformations, in TECHNE Journal, 27, Firenze University Press, Firenze.

5. Ginelli, E., Daglio, L., Pozzi, G. Vignati, G. (2024), New living, new housing, new system for the built environment, in 7th Biennial RDBCC - Residential Building Design & Construction Conference, Penn State College, Pennsylvania USA.

6. Vignati, G., Daglio, L., Ginelli, E. (2024), Design “reactivity” for the enhancement of the built environment. New models of living in the dismissed tertiary sector, in M. Bosone (ed.) Good Practice for the Recovery Project Beyond the Pandemic, OpenAccess, La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli.

7. Daglio, L., Ginelli, E., Vignati, G. (2023), Housing Design: Furniture or Fixtures? Accommodating Change through Technological and Typological Innovation, in MDPI Buildings Special Issue The Adaptability of Residential Planning and Design to World-Changing Events, 13(7).

8. Pozzi, G., Vignati, G., Ginelli, E. (2023), Sharing innovation for living. The acceptability of off-site industrialized systems, in Arbizzani, E., Cangelli, E., Clemente, C., Cumo, F., Giofrè, F., Giovenale, AM., Palme, M., Paris, S. (eds.) Technological Imagination. In the green and digital transition, Springer Publishing.

9. Vignati, G., Pozzi, G., Sdino, L., Dell’Ovo, M., Ginelli, E. (2022), The regenerative project for hybrid evolutionary buildings: Active resilience, convertibility, enhancement, in TECHNE Journal, 24, FUP Firenze University Press, Firenze.

10. Ginelli, E., Delera, A. (eds) (2022), Storie di quartieri pubblici. Progetti e sperimentazioni per valorizzare l’abitare, OpenAccess, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano-Udine.

11. Daglio L.;Ginelli E. (2021), The heteronomy of building technologies in the construction industry in Italy. Notes for a to-do list, in TECHNE Journal, 21, FUP Firenze University Press, Firenze.

12. Ginelli, E., Pozzi, G., Vignati, G., (2021), cHOMgenius come esempio di Smart Shipping Container Building, tra economia circolare e innovazione, OpenAcces, in IDA Rivista Ingegneria Dell’Ambiente, 8, 2.

Community Service

Member of the Scientific Committee of the ABC Department (2020–2023).

Elected Chair and later Coordinator of the Departmental Teaching Committee of the ABC Department (formerly BEST); Head of the Departmental Committee for Professional Training and Continuing Education (FeAP); Member of the Board of the AUIC School (formerly School of Architecture and Society); AVA Quality Assurance Officer for the MSc Programme in Architecture (2003–2020).

Member of the Board of the Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (2017–2019).

Elected Deputy Coordinator of the MSc Programme Board in Architecture, Milan campus (2015–2017).

Elected Member of the Board of the School of Architecture and Society for the MSc Programme in Architecture (Deputy Coordinator) and AVA–MIUR Quality Assurance Officer (2012–2017).

Member of the Departmental Scientific Committee, and participant (in 2004) in the Departmental Research Self-Assessment Committee (2003–2007).

Member of the Teaching Planning Committee, serving as departmental representative and coordinator for the Specialist/Master of Science Programme in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Society (2003–2007).

Departmental Scientific Coordinator of the project Qualification of the Educational Offer – Training for Trainers (2003–2010).

Associate Member of the Departmental Scientific Committee for Scientific Credentials, participating in meetings of the University Scientific Committee on behalf of and together with the Department Director (2003–2007).