Profile
Dr. Ludovica Tomarchio is an academic researcher, her work explores the relationships between socio-spatial practices, mediated environments, and design. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin University of the Arts in Germany, working on the project Site Complexes: Models of Responsive Practices for the 21st Century. She earned her PhD from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), affiliated with the ETH Centre, where she conducted research at the intersection of art, social media, and urban spaces and her Master of Architecture in Politecnico di Milano. Before joining the NOMIS project, she served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Berlin associated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces,”, studying the social production of Hybrid Spaces in young adults in Berlin and Lima. Her research methods are multidisciplinary and employ a mixed-methods approach, integrating big data analysis and visualization and qualitative methods. Beyond her academic achievements, Ludovica, worked at Aedes Berlin and is deeply committed to public outreach and interdisciplinary dialogue.
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Education
Master in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Erasmus Exchange program, TU Berlin, Germany
BArch- Bachelor of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Erasmus Exchange program, Master program in Urban Planning and Design in KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Academic Experience
15.10.24 – ongoing Post Doc University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), Nomis project, Research Title: Site Complexes. Responsive practices in Art and Architecture.
07.22-09.24 Post Doc TU, Berlin at the DFG-funded collaborative research center “ReFiguration of Spaces” (CRC 1265). Research title: The Spatial Knowledge of Young Adults: The Constitution of Online, Offline, and Hybrid Spaces
02.16-12.20 PhD and Research Assistant Future Cities Laboratories (FCL) /Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Singapore-ETH Center.
02.17-08.17 Lecturer, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Capstone Projects:
02.16-08.16 Teaching assistant, Yale NUS, Singapore. Urban Spatial Reasoning course.
03.14-08.14 Teaching Assistant, German University of Oman, GUtech, Muscat, Oman
Other Professional Experiences
05.22-09.24 Digital Communication Manager, international educational platform, Aedes, Berlin.
02.15-08.15 Exhibition Designer, the Press Room, Singapore
01.15-12.16 Curator and project manager, Kilo Dialogues and Kilo Stories, Singapore
01.13-06-.3 Junior Project Manager: Urbino Master Plan, Italy
Awards and Fundings
Writing the grant for the Nomis foundation. Funding acquisition of Euro 1.280.000
Full funding and stipend for the whole length of the PhD with the Presidential Graduate Fellowship (PGF)
Future Cities Laboratory 2, Impact Funding, 20.000 S$
Best Students Project, for the Capstone Design course I taught at Singapore University of Technology and Design. \
2021 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award
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Ongoing Research
The book
Hybrid Art Space: Relational Dynamic of Art, Space and Digital Visibility
by Transcript Verlag is coming out soon.
visit the website
www.hybridartspaces.com
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1.1 Inteface of the visualisation availebla at www.hybridartspaces.com to explore the realationship between social media and art venues
1.2. Illustration by Idea Ink in conversation with Ludovica Tomarchio for the book Future Cities Laboratory - indicia. 03, edited by S. Cairns and D. Tunas. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers
1.3 Video realised within the Future Cities Laboratory, 2017
1.4 Ludovica Tomarchio 2020, made using CIVAL’s Singapore Views Platform
1.21.31.4Hybrid Art Spaces is a research project developed from Ludovica Tomarchio’s PhD, which investigates how art, space, and digital platforms intersect in contemporary urban environments. The project culminates in a monograph that theorises and empirically analyses the transformation of art spaces under the influence of social media and digital visibility.
Focusing on case studies in Singapore and beyond, the research develops a set of spatial typologies of hybrid art spaces, from social media data, examining how museums, galleries, art districts, and informal cultural venues are reshaped by platform logics such as visibility, circulation, and algorithmic mediation. Through a combination of spatial analysis, digital data, and visualisation methods, the project maps how these spaces operate simultaneously across physical and digital realms.
The project contributes both a conceptual framework and a visual methodology to analyse these transformations, positioning hybrid space as a key condition of contemporary urban and cultural practice.2 site complexes
Reseach between UdK Berlin and University of Vienna, funded by NOMIS FOUNDATION
since October 2024
with Prof. Susanne Hauser, Prof. Stefan Neuner, Prof. Sebastian Egenhofer, Christoph Chwatal
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2.1 Gibellina, Alberto Burri on the ruin of old Gibellina
2.2 Structure of the project Site Complexes
2.3 Poster of the lecture organised within the project Site Comlexes: Responsive practice for the 21st century with Nilüfer Gole
2.4 Cover of the book La Città Frontale, by artist Pietro Consagra, one of the case study.
2.22.32.4Site Complexes: Responsive Practices for the 21st Century is a research project that reconceptualises sites not as fixed locations, but as dynamic constellations of material, social, and digital relations. Bringing together art, architecture, and spatial theory, the project investigates how sites are continuously produced through overlapping temporalities, infrastructures, and modes of representation.
Within this framework, responsive practices are approaches that do not simply intervene in a site, but actively engage with its layered conditions, tensions, and publics. Rather than resolving complexity, these practices work through it, making sites legible, negotiable, and open to transformation.
ludovica research focuses on a set of typologies of responsiveness, including:
- Re-orientation, as explored in Gibellina, where artistic and architectural practices redirect the public sphere from narratives of catastrophe toward future imaginaries;
- Mediatization, exemplified by practices such as Forensic Architecture, or digital twins, where sites are reconstructed and contested through digital evidence, platforms, and visualisation;
- Attunement, which foregrounds situated, often fragile forms of engagement with environmental, social, and more-than-human conditions.
3. publications
Ludovica Tomarchio. 2025. Hybrid Art Space. Transcript Verlag.
Tomarchio, Ludovica. 2021. Hybrid Art Spaces - Exploring the Relationship between Social Media and Art Venues in Singapore. Singapore University of Technology, ISBN: 978-981-94-2506-8
Ludovica Tomarchio. 2025a. “Respon-Siveness e Respon-Sability.” In Pienezza Della Vita; Nuove Metriche Di Visione Territoriale, by Carmela Elita Schillaci, Luigi Piper, and Federico Mertoli. McGraw-Hill.
Ludovica Tomarchio. 2025b. “Situating Metrics: Pratiche Di Cura e Pienezza per Una Nuova Lettura Del Territorio.” In Pienezza Della Vita; Nuove Metriche Di Visione Territoriale, by Carmela Elita Schillaci, Luigi Piper, and Federico Mertoli. McGraw-Hill.
Ludovica, Tomarchio. 2025. “Interface Girl.” In Atlas of Spatial Figures: Exploring Spaces of the Contemporary, edited by Ignacio Farías, Silke Steets, and Nikolaus Gansterer. JOVIS Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986122218.
Castillo Ulloa, Ignacio, Ludovica Tomarchio, Angela Million, and Anna Juliane Heinrich. 2025. “Growing up (Un)Knowingly in a Cage: Youths’ Conflictive Spatial Knowledge.” In Spatial Conflicts and Conflictual Spaces: The Dynamics of Refiguration, edited by Barbara Pfetsch, Hubert Knoblauch, and Vivien Sommer. The Refiguration of Space Series. Routledge.
Ludovica Tomarchio and Christoph Chwatal. 2025. “Rhythmen Im Stadtraum: Temporäre Intervention Und Ortsspezifik.” In Kunst Im Stadt Raum. Kunst im Stadt Raum.
Tomarchio, Ludovica. 2022. “Stimulate Hybrid (Cyber - Physical) Places.” in Future Cities Laboratory - indicia. 03, edited by S. Cairns and D. Tunas. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers.
He, Peijun, Pieter Herthogs, Marco Cinelli, Tomarchio, Ludovica, and Bige Tunçer. 2020. “A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis-Based Framework to Evaluate Public Space Quality.” Pp. 271–83 in Smart and Sustainable Cities and Buildings, edited by R. Roggema and A. Roggema. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
von Richthofen, A., Tomarchio, L., & Costa, A. (2019). Identifying Communities Within the Smart-Cultural City of Singapore: A Network Analysis Approach. Smart Cities, 2(1), 66–81.
Tomarchio, L., Herthogs, P., & Tunçer, B. (2023). Hybrid art space typologies in Singapore from social media data. City, Culture and Society, 34, 100519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2023.100519
Tomarchio, L., He, P., Herthogs, P., & Tunçer, B. (2023). Assessing the Impact of Cultural Planning in the Age of Social Media: Twitter-Based Indicators for Established and Emerging Art Locations. International Journal on Smart and Sustainable Cities, 01(01). https://doi.org/10.1142/s2972426023400020
Mueller, J., Asada, S., & Tomarchio, L. (2020). Engaging the Crowd: Lessons for Outreach and Tool Design From a Creative Online Participatory Study. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 9(2), 66–79. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.2020040101.oa
Tomarchio, L., He, P., Herthogs, P., & Tuncer, B. (2020). Cultural-Smart City: Establishing New Data-informed Practices to Plan Culture in Cities. Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 2]. https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.081
Tomarchio, L., Hasler, S., Herthogs, P., Müller, J., Tuncer, B., & He, P. (2019). Using an Online Participation Tool to Collect Relevant Data for Urban Design—The construction of two participation exercises. CAADRIA Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.2.747
Tomarchio, Ludovica. 2019. “Mapping Human Landscapes in Muscat, Oman, with Social Media Data.” P. 38 p. in Arab Gulf Cities in Transition: Towards New Spatialities, edited by Cummings, Veronika, Richthofen, Aurel von, and Babar, Zahra. Cambridge, United Kingdom: ETH Zurich.
Tomarchio, L., Tuncer, B., You, L., & Klein, B. (2016). Mapping Planned and Emerging Art Places in Singapore through Social Media Feeds. eCAADe Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.437
Morandi, C., Palmieri, R., & Tomarchio, L. (2015). Digital Social Media to Enhance the Public Realm in Historic Cities. In L. M. Aiello & D. McFarland (Eds.), Social informatics: SocInfo 2014 international workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 10, 2014 ; revised selected papers. Springer.
Morandi, C., Palmieri, R., Stojanovic, B., & Tomarchio, L. (2013). Digital Mapping: The analysis of the social realm of Urbino. Planum, 2(27). file:///Users/ludouica/Downloads/06_NUL_Conference_Proceedings_by_Planum_n.27_2(2013)_Morandi_Palmieri_Stojanovic_Tomarchio_Session_3%20(1).pdf
Blogs
Tomarchio, Ludovica, Angela Million, Anna Juliane Heinrich e Castillo Ulloa Ignacio. 2023. “Five Days in a Berlin School: Participatory Workshop for the Development of a Progressive Web Application.” Sfb1265. (https://sfb1265.de/en/blog/five-days-in-a-berlin-school/).
Tomarchio, L. (2020). Smart Cultural City: “Instagrammability” in Art, Architecture, and Hybrid Art Spaces. Culture, Smart City. (https://www.goethe.de/prj/csc/en/phase-1/lto/iaa.html)
Report
Von Richthofen, A. von, & Tomarchio, L. (2018). Knowledge Map: Smart - Cultural City Singapore (p. 24). https://doi.org/10.3929/ETHZ-B-000280034
Invited Lectures, Podcast
Tomarchio, Ludovica, and Christoph Chwatal. 2026. "Reading Site Responsiveness with Donna Haraway." Short talk, Panel 5: Spaces of Sustainability — Art as a Practice of Ecological and Social Transformation, Tagung der Kunstkommission Düsseldorf Zwischen (öffentlichem) Raum und Macht — Kunst in der Stadt, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, 21 March.
Tomarchio, Ludovica, msk7, Kandis Friesen, Christof Zwiener, Verena Unbehaun, and Edouard Compere. 2025. "Lesbar gemacht: Transformationsprozesse von Kunst im Stadtraum." Talk and publication launch, moderated by Liesa Andres, KISR — Kunst im Stadtraum, Spittelkolonnaden, Berlin, 21 July.
Tomarchio, Ludovica. 2024. "Creative Cities in the Social Media Age." Podcast episode, Cities in Mind, citiesinmind.substack.com.
Tomarchio, Ludovica. 2020. "Hybrid Art Spaces." Workshop, Culture, Smart City, Goethe Institute, Singapore.
Tomarchio, Ludovica. 2019a. "Facts and Figures." Presentation, Media Design Academy, NTU School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore.
———. 2019b. "Hybrid Art Spaces." Presentation, Precincts, Participation and Place-Making: New Ways to Measure Cultural Impact, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore.
———. 2018a. "Exploring Art-Related Social Media Production in Singapore." Presentation, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore.
———. 2018b. "Social Media Accounts in Singapore." Presentation, Urban Design Festival, Singapore.
———. n.d. "Hybrid Art Space." Presentation, Future Cities Laboratory Conference, Zurich.
3.1 Cover Future Cities Laboratory - indicia. 03, edited by S. Cairns and D. Tunas. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers.
3.2 Cover Atlas of Spatial Figures: Exploring Spaces of the Contemporary, edited by Ignacio Farías, Silke Steets, and Nikolaus Gansterer. JOVIS Verlag.
3.13.2Top cc: Ludovica Tomarchio 2026