Pierfrancesco Celani is an architect and urban planner. Since 2007, he has been a partner in AREA4 architecture and engineering associate firm and has collaborating with prestigious international firms such as the Freedman Tung and Sasaki Urban Design and City Planning in San Francisco (California, USA). He is primarily involved in. architectural design, urban and regional planning and cultural and natural heritage enhancement. He is also specialized in participatory design, sustainable urban development and new technologies applied to the city. PhD in programming psychology and artificial intelligence, he is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Designing sustainable spatial planning at the Department of Engineering Environment of the University of Calabria.