Federico Parolotto

Federico Parolotto (twitter @fparolotto) is Senior Partner and co-founder in 2009 of MIC – Mobility in Chain, www.michain.com He graduated in Architecture at Milan Polytechnic and began his career with SOM in the UK (1994–98) and also worked with Systematica in Milan (1998–2008) where he was made partner in 2006. He has been involved as transport planner in numerous major transport planning projects worldwide. He was a speaker in numerous international events including the Greenbuild conference (Boston), Ecological Urbanism (Harvard University, Cambridge) in 2009; Helsinki Design Lab in 2010; Superurbano Conference in Padova in 2011; Moscow Biennale in Moscow; SPIEF in Saint Petersburg; World City Forum in Naples and Connect Ideas Maximize Impact In Stuttgart in 2012, Metropolis and Mobile Life in Toronto in 2013; at Strelka in Moscow in 2014, at Pratt University in NYC in 2015 and at IAAC in Barcelona in 2016. In 2011 he co-founded Flow(n) www.flow-n.eu, MIC research team where he leads research project exploring new mobility trends. Federico has been a member of the expert committee for the Milan SUMP, the sustainable urban master plan between 2013 and 2015 and he currently collaborates with ThePlan magazine where he runs with Andrea Boschetti TheCityPlan section on city investigation. He lectured in several international universities and, among various publications, his essays were published on "Ecological Urbanism" by Mohsen Mostafavi Gareth Doherty and on "Ecological Urban Architecture: Qualitative Approaches to sustainability" by Thomas Schroepfer.