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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

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Hybrid 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.

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