Lia Ghilardi

Current

• Managing director at Noema Research and Planning

Past

• Senior researcher at Comedia Consultancy, London

Education

• City University

Recommended

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Connections

22 connections

Industry

Architecture & Planning

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Lia Ghilardi’s Summary

I trained as urban sociologist in Italy and then studied in the UK at City University and The Bartlett School of Planning. My professional interests are for cities and urban development through the use of culture and cultural activities. I have a diploma from the De Bono Creative Techniques School and use creativity and creative thinking in addressing urban problems.

Lia Ghilardi’s Specialties:

MA in Cultural Management and Mphil in Planning and Urban Studies

Lia Ghilardi’s Experience

• Managing director

  Noema Research and Planning

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

  November 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)

  Started in 1999 but previously worked with Comedia Consultancy as senior creative consultant. My clients are civic leaders wanting to reposition their cities on the competitiveness map. I work with a method of studying cities' cultural component and use cultural mapping as a tool for strategic development.

• Senior researcher

  Comedia Consultancy, London

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1990 — 1998 (8 years )

  With urban thinker Charles Landry we developed a number of research and consultancy projects. One such project was The Creative City.

Lia Ghilardi’s Education

• City University

  MA , Arts Criticism

  The MA was then followed by a five years study for a PhD at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.

Additional Information

Lia Ghilardi’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Lia Ghilardi’s Interests:

Theatre, urban flaneurs, travel to East Asia, place branding, hang out spots in big cities.

Lia Ghilardi’s Groups:

Member of the Institute of Directors, Urban Design Group

•    Cultural Engineering Group
•    Urbanist
•    Heritage Conservation/Historic Preservation of the Built Environment Network
•    Fuse: Design & Culture, Brand Identity & Packaging
•    Cultural Realms - Culture Discovery & Business of Cultural Tourism
•    iNTC, ingénierie du nouveau tourisme culturel
•    The Urban Vision

Lia Ghilardi’s Honors:

MA with Distinction.
Mphil in Urban Planning.

Lia Ghilardi’s Contact Settings

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