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City 2.0 in wonderland—activate and involve: Daniela Patti & Levente Polyak at TEDxVienna

1,922 views · Published 14 October 2013 · 11:19 · Indexed 6 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Daniela Patti is an architect and planner. She has studied in Rome, London, Porto and currently is a PhD candidate in TU Vienna and TU Delft. She has been working as a researcher in the CEIT Alanova research centre since 2010 (www.ceit.at) where she is responsible for project development and management of European research projects within the Smart Cities strand. Additionally, she has been guest lecturer in the University of Roma Tre, Tor Vergata and Universad de Buenos Aires and since 2012 and is Board Member of the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture (www.wonderland.cx) where she organizes workshops for the development of urban strategies.

Levente Polyák is an urbanist, researcher and critic. He studied architecture, urbanism, sociology and art theory in Budapest and Paris, and he has been a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, the Budapest University of Technology and the Technische Universität Wien, where he teaches urban studies and architectural theory. Levente has worked on urban projects for the New York, Paris, Budapest and Pécs municipalities and as a founding member of the KÉK -- Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, he has organized events and exhibitions dealing with various contemporary urban and architectural phenomena. He is a doctoral candidate at the Central European University. Since 2012 he is a board member of the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture where he organizes workshops for the development of urban strategies. His recent projects are published at http://polyaklevente.net/.

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