Riccardo has been a Marie-Curie research associate at the Institute of Regional Science since 2022. His research is focused on developing novel understandings of the role of human scale in the co-production of the urban environment in Latin America, with a special focus on socio-economically marginalised and contested areas of Ecuador. He also has over six years of teaching expertise in architectural and urban design, as well as urban planning.

• co-production of urban environment
• urban design
• human scale
• social urbanism
• urban vulnerability in latin America
• arquitectural typology
• urban morphology
• empirical methods in urban research
• housing and habitat in marginalized neighborhoods

• Porreca R., Rodriguez-Pazmiño N., Geropanta V. Defining marginality in the periurban areas of Quito: a descriptive approach based on empirical and spatial data. Region Journal, 2022 (forthcoming).
• Karagianni, A., Geropanta, V., Parthenios, P., Porreca, R., Mavroudi, S., Vogiatzis, A.,  Margiori, L.-I., Mpaknis, C., Papadosifou, E., & Sampani, A. I. (2021). Enhancing User  Experience in Public Spaces by Measuring Passengers’ Flow and Perception  through ICT: The Case of the Municipal Market of Chania [Chapter]. Research  Advancements in Smart Technology, Optimization, and Renewable Energy; IGI  Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3970-5.ch002 
• Vecchio, G., Porreca, R., & Jácome Rivera, D. (2020). Socio-Spatial Concerns in  Urban Mobility Planning: Insights from Competing Policies in Quito. Sustainability,  12(7), 2923. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12072923
• Porreca R., Geropanta V., Abril K., Giordanelli D. (2020) Gaming as a disembodied  experience of the city: from Assassin’s Creed to ‘smart learner’ , SCIRES-IT, 10 (2). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2423/i22394303v10n2p117
• Pea, A., Porreca, R., Cruz Cabrera, M., Granja, P., Da Cruz e Sousa, R., & Bracchi, P.  (2020). Más allá de paisaje. Editorial UTE. 
• Núñez-González, S., Delgado-Ron, J. A., Gault, C., Lara-Vinueza, A., Calle-Celi, D.,  Porreca, R., & Simancas-Racines, D. (2020, March 19). Overview of “Systematic  Reviews” of the Built Environment’s Effects on Mental Health [Review Article].  Journal of Environmental and Public Health; Hindawi.  https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9523127 
• Porreca, R., Geropanta, V., Barberá, R. M., & Rocchio, D. (2019). Remote Sensing  Drones for Advanced Urban Regeneration Strategies. The Case of San José de  Chamanga in Ecuador. Intelligent Computing and Optimization, 620–628.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33585-4_60 
• Pea, A., Porreca, R., Clemente, M., & Perissi, F. (2018). Una aproximación  descriptiva de la evolución del espacio público de Quito: Una lectura de las  últimas décadas. In Ciudad y formas urbanas: Perspectivas transversales. Volumen  4. Formas urbanas, espacios públicos, actividades (Vol. 4, pp. 173–182). Universidad  de Zaragoza. https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75935 
• Porreca, R., & Rocchio, D. (2018). Fattori di (dis)continuità morfologica nella  ricostruzione poscatastrofe a San José di Chamanga. In INTERRUZIONI, INTERSEZIONI, CONDIVISIONI E SOVRAPPOSIZIONI. Nuove prospettive per il territorio. Urbanistica Informazioni 278  s.i.. (pp. 247–251). 
• Distrito Metropolitano de Quito. (2018). Visión de Quito 2040 y su Nuevo Modelo  de Ciudad. Member of scientific group from UTE University.  http://www.rniu.buap.mx/infoRNIU/nov18/2/quito-vision-2040-y-su-nuevo modelo-de-ciudad.pdf 
• Porreca R. e Rocchio D. (2017) La città commerciale: dall'informale relazionale al  formalismo distanziale. Il caso Quito, -VII Congersso  AISU 2017, 7-8-9/09/2017. CIRICE Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Iconografia della Città Europea, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, collana: Storia e iconografia dell’architettura, delle città e dei siti europei, Napoli, FedOA – Federico II University Press, 20173007 pp., ill,.ISBN 978-88-99930-02-8, DOI 10.6093/978-88-99930-02-8
• Pea, A., Porreca, R. (2017). Spazi pubblici e reti sensibili. In Crisis and Rebirth of the Cities. Urbanistica Informazioni, 272 s.i. (pp. 552–557). http://www.urbanisticainformazioni.it/IMG/pdf/ui_272si_05_sessione_05.pdf 
• Porreca, R. (2017). Marker de proceso y marker de proyecto en la reconstrucción  poscatástrofe. Eídos, 10, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.29019/ei.v0i10.329 
• Pardo, A. M., Grindalay Moreno, A. L., Cundari, A., Parisi, I., Porreca, R., Raiola, M.  L., Ricci, S., & Tancredi, M. (2017). Cittá e tutela del terriorio. In Ambiente e diritti  tra responsabilità e partecipazione (pp. 297–312). Aracne Editrice. 
• Gritti, A., Rosero, V., Dall’Asta, J. C., Rocchio, D., Porreca, R., & Tagliabue, F. (2017).  Study of morphological structures of historical centers as a basic tool for understanding the new conditions of social habitat. Quito, Suzhou, and Syracuse. 24th ISUF International Conference, 501–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ISUF2017.2017.6261 
• Porreca, R., & Rocchio, D. (2016). Distancias socio-espaciales en la reconstrucción  pos-desastre. Eídos, 9, (15–27). https://doi.org/10.29019/eidos.v0i9.127 
• Cruz Cabrera, M., Martínez Serra, J. C., Rocchio, D., Freire Amores, L., Jácome Terán,  W., & Porreca, R. (2016). Hacer Ciudad Calderón 2040. Editorial UTE. 

• Adjunct Professor - Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architectural Design and Planning Theory at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, UTE University, Quito (from 2016  to October 2019). 
• Chair -Teoría y taller de Arquitectura III - Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning,  UTE University, Quito (From October 2019). 
• Coordinator - Master in Urban Planning - Sustainable Planning curriculum. Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, UTE University, Quito. (From  January - September 2022). 
• Lecturer - Master’s degree thesis-Writing course. Master in Urban Planning (Sustainable Planning curriculum, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, UTE University of  Quito  (March-August 2022). 
• Lecturer - Urban Design. Master in Urban Planning (Sustainable Planning curriculum Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, UTE University of Quito. (From  July 2020 to March 2022). 

• “Coproduction: addressing the coproduction of urban environment in Quito, Ecuador”, Perspektiven der geographischen Lateinamerikaforschung, Donnerstag, 27. Oktober & Freitag, 28. Oktober 2022. Institut für Regionalwissenschaft, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.
• "¿Como se co-producen mecanismos de resiliencia urbana en contextos vulnerables? El caso estudio de Quito" Arquitectura y Urbanismo Sostenible 29/08/2022 - 02/09/2022, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí, Ecuador.
• “Management of public space: the role of minga in coproducing urban environment”, World Urban Forum - 11th session. Katowice, Poland 26-30 June 2022.
• "Oltre il paesaggio: la relazione tra uomo, architettura e natura”, micro-seminario L’ecologia ambientale in Architettura, Rotary Club International Puglia-Basilicata, sezione Foggia. 22/09/2021.
• "De la gestión urbana a la re-vitalización de territorios en Bogotá”, Porreca R.,  Vecchio G., Tancredi M., Pinzon J., Subdirección de Operaciones de la Secretaría  Distrital del Hábitat - Alcaldía de Bogotá, 18/12/2020.  
• "El proyecto del paisaje como adaptación al cambio climático del Distrito  Metropolitano de Quito: Una propuesta metodológica”, Da Cruz e Sousa Ricardo and Porreca Riccardo, II Congreso Internacional del Paisaje-Quito Ecuador,  20/05/2020. 
• “Apropiación espontánea del espacio público en zonas rurales en un contexto  post-catástrofe: El caso de San José de Chamanga” I Foro Contested Cities Ecuador  – Encuentro de experiencias sobre procesos de urbanización periférica”,  14/02/2020 Puyo - Ecuador, organized by FLACSO Ecuador, Contested Cities  Ecuador, INEDITA, Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e  Innovación dell’Ecuador.  

• Urban planning consultant, Municipality of Teramo -  Consultant for the Municipality of Teramo. IdeaTE Participatory process for urban regeneration and strategic planning. (09/2021-08/2022)
• Urban planning consultant - Teramo Ambiente (Te.Am) - Planning consultant for waste management plant. Analysis of site and writing of Verification of submission to the Environmental Impact Assessment (Verifica di assoggettabilità a Valutazione di Impatto Ambientale) of Carapollo waste management plant in Teramo 03/2015 - 12/2015)
• Freelance consultant - Architectural Design, Urban Design, Energy Management - 2012 - 2019 (Cialmaco Arquitectura, Pomponi Associate, Cost-Control, STP Consulting, Enermea)

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• Postdoctoral Fellowships | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 2021-PF-01
• DIES Fellowship | ProGrant Proposal writing for research grant in Bolivia (2020), DIES-ProGrant, University of Cologne, DAAD-Germany, Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany, ProWiss, Global Responsibility 
• Editorial commitee - Investigatio Journal - ISSN: 1390-6399; eISSN: 2602-8336
• Peer reviewer - Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para  América Latina (CIESPAL). 
• Peer reviewer - Mimesis Journal of Science of Architectural Drawing
• Scientific Board - Eídos Journal - https://revistas.ute.edu.ec/index.php/eidos/about/editorialTeam 
• Scientific Committee - Workshop Internacional de Arquitectura Equinoccial WINAREQ  https://winareq.ute.edu.ec/equipo/ 2016-present
• Scientific Committee - International Student contest Inside/Outside - Agenzia per il Diritto Studentesco Universitario (ADSU) di Chieti-Pescara and D’Annunzio University of Pescara-Chieti. 2022.