
Dr Ombretta Romice
Reader
Architecture
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ICE Reed and Mallick Medal Recipient 6/6/2023 Teaching Excellence Awards Recipient 18/5/2016 Awarded Associate Membership by experience and practice in teaching, outreach and research Recipient 1/1/2016 Elected President of IAPS 2008-2012 Recipient 2008 International Association for People Environment Studies (IAPS) Recipient 2004
Prize And Awards
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Assessing the multi-sensory qualities of urban space Lucas Raymond, Romice Ombretta Psyecology. Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology Vol 1, pp. 263-276 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1174/217119710791175678 Preserving the cultural identity of Chinese cities in urban design through a typomorphological approach Chen Fei, Romice Ombretta Urban Design International Vol 14, pp. 36-54 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1057/udi.2009.6 Representing sensory experience in urban design Lucas Raymond, Romice Ombretta Design Principles and Practices Vol 2, pp. 83-94 (2008) EO + morphometrics : understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale Wang Jiong, Fleischmann Martin, Venerandi Alessandro, Romice Ombretta, Kuffer Monika, Porta Sergio Landscape and Urban Planning Vol 233 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104691 Setting urban design as a specialised, evidence-led, coordinated education and profession Romice Ombretta, Rudlin David, AlWaer Husam, Greaves Mark, Thwaites Kevin, Porta Sergio Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning (2022) https://doi.org/10.1680/jurdp.22.00023 Urban morphometrics + earth observation : an integrated approach to rich/extra-large scale taxonomies of urban form Porta Sergio, Venerandi Alessandro, Feliciotti Alessandra, Raman Shibu, Romice Ombretta, Wang Jiong, Kuffer Monika Projections, Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Vol 16, pp. 132-163 (2022)
Publications
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National Research Assessment framework, Portugal (Event) Peer reviewer 1/4/2023 Chair of IAPS Election Committee 2022. Recipient 12/2022 Strath Methods series of seminars Invited speaker 1/9/2022 A pattern language for urban commons: Case studies of cohousing residents’ involvement in shared residential landscapes Examiner 23/5/2022 International Forum on Urbanism - 2021 Congress . From dichotomies to dialogues Keynote/plenary speaker 25/11/2021 European Association for Architectural Education EAAE, Annual Conference and General Assembly Keynote/plenary speaker 25/8/2021
KTP - ADAM Architecture Ltd Porta, Sergio (Principal Investigator) Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025 Slum Prosperity Framework - PostDoc Romice, Ombretta (Principal Investigator) 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020 The Urban Form Resilience Project: Porta, Sergio (Principal Investigator) Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator) Resilience and urban form: assessing the resilience of spatial systems in cities at the neighbourhood and district scale 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2020 A new dimension for data-driven urbanism: studying the form of preference Romice, Ombretta (Principal Investigator) Porta, Sergio (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017 Place Identity Dwelling. Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator) Murray, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Development of criteria of assessment for residential neighbourhoods, and analysis of a number of case study analysis. The focus of my team which I leaded was on urban form; other partners: ESALA (landscape assessment). Sponsored by Architecture and Design Scotland. Support: £1,5000. 30-Jan-2014 - 01-Jan-2016 A study with GSA Dundee and ESALA on Research - Place Identity Dwelling. Murray, Gordon (Academic) Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator) Hutton, Graeme (Academic) This research network proposal advocates knowledge exchange across European borders, defining areas of excellence and best practice in the procurement and design of volume house-building. Vanguard expertise from academia, industry, Government and regulatory bodies across design, planning & policy, finance and housing will explore positive relationships between design theory & practice; environmental & construction technologies, policy & procurement – and their application to volume house building in suburban contexts. 01-Jan-2014 - 01-Jan-2015