Lead Instructor Experience
2025
“Muddy Making: Natural Materials in Digital Commons” Columbia GSAPP Master’s students.
At Columbia GSAPP.
With Prof. Dr. Lola Ben-Alon
Role: Lead Instructor during 15 days Summer workshop:
- Supervised and trained master students in 3D pritable models and digital design examples
- Supervised students during the design phase to assure the geometrical integrity of 3D models
- Supervised students while using different 3D printers, e.g. WASP Delta 40100, Scara Elite v2, PotterBot
- Developed natural material 3D printable pastes (in terms of earth, natural fibers) used during the workshop
2025
“Design and fabricate unique tile shape unisng 3D printing”
Master’s students. At ENSA Paris.
Role: Lead Instructor during 10 days workshop:
- Supervised and trained master students in 3D pritable models and tassellation logics
- Supervised students during the design phase to assure the printability of 3D models
- Defined the natural material mixtures (in terms of earth, natural fibers) used during the workshop
2024
“3D Printed Earth – HACKATHON” Columbia GSAPP Master’s students.
At Columbia Engineering, Carleton Laboratory.
With Prof. Dr. Lola Ben-Alon and Prof. Dr. Shiho Kawashima.
Role: Lead Instructor during five days workshop:
- Supervised and trained master students in digital fabrication and during the 3D printing sessions
- Supervised students during the design phase to assure the printability of 3D models
- Defined the extrudable material mixtures (in terms of earth, natural fibers and biopolymers) used during the workshop
- Prepared the Grasshopper script to generate the GCODE for 3D-printing with the SCARA Elite v2 robotic arm.
2023
“Circular Materials scouting”. MRAC students.
At Politecnico di Milano, Master Material Balance Design: Digital techniques and circular innovations in architecture.
Role: Faculty member
- Prepared lectures on the most used construction materials in terms of their origin, processes, sustainability and availability
- Advised on the material selection phase of the students’ annual project
2022
”Material stories - between metrics and narrative” MRAC01 students
At IAAC- Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
Role: Faculty member
- Prepared lectures on the most used construction materials in terms of their origin, processes, sustainability metrics and availability
- Moderate on the “material debate” among students
2022
“Material Balance Design and Sustainable Products” MRAC students.
At SOS School of Sustainability
Role: Faculty member
- Prepared lectures on materiality and textures of construction materials
Teaching Assistant
2021-2022
Scale-up! DASTU Department Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Simone Giostra
2019
PSCE_Design of subsystems and building components, ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Enrico De Angelis
Retrofit and conservation of buildings + Laboratory ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Laura Elisabetta Malighetti
Invited Studio Critic
The New School- Parsons School of Design
Construction Tech: Contemporary vernacular | Gustavo Lopez Mendoza 2024
Columbia University
Material Kitchens: Mix Designs, Recipes, and Erroneous Imitations | Lola Ben-Alon 2024
Tech 5 Construction + Life Cycle Systems | Lola Ben-Alon and Tommy Schaperkotter 2023
Architecture Studio V | Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano 2023
Pratt Institute
Projected Form Bodies - Materialities – Environments first year project| Kyriaki Goti 2023
University of Minho
Additive manufacturing and construction automation | Bruno Figueiredo 2022
Invited Guest Lecturer
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“Newtech for sustainability” Architecture for Landscape, Alessandro Terranova, YAC Academy, Bologna, IT, September 2025
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Digitally fabricated Earth and fiber-based materials” Inquiry into Biomaterial Architectures, Prof. Laia Mogas Soldevila, University of Pennsylvania, USA, September 2025
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“Mycelium-based biocomposites and research at Columbia University” CAS in Regenerative Materials - Essentials, Prof. Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, CH, April 2025
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“Designing for regenerative cultures” Workshop WORKSHOP EUROPÉEN 2025 : “Sharing knowledge for reducing impacts”, Francesca Contrada, ENSA Paris, Paris, FR, February 2025
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“Newtech for sustainability” Architecture for Landscape, Alessandro Terranova, YAC Academy, Bologna, IT, December 2024
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“Additive manufacturing of Natural Materials” Construction Technology 2. Resource: The Contemporary Vernacular. Prof. Gustavo Lopez Mendoza, The New School- Parsons School of Design, USA, October 2024
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“Digitally fabricated Earth and fiber-based materials” Inquiry into Biomaterial Architectures, Prof. Laia Mogas Soldevila, University of Pennsylvania, USA, September 2024
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“Mycelium-based composites: How to bond with Nature” CAS in Regenerative Materials - Essentials, Prof. Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, CH, April 2024
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“Material diets for climate-neutral construction” Material Kitchens: Mix Designs, Recipes, and Erroneous Imitation, Prof. Lola Ben-Alon, Columbia GSAPP, USA, February 2024
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“Newtech for sustainability” Architecture for Landscape, Alessandro Terranova, YAC Academy, Bologna, IT, October 2023
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“Mycelium-based composites: How to bond with Nature” CAS in Regenerative Materials - Essentials, Prof. Guillaume Habert, ETH Zurich, CH, April 2023
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“Concevoir et construire avec la nature” DPEA Architecture Post-Carbon, Prof. Jean-Francois Blasses, École de l’architecture et du territoires paris-est Paris, FR, May 2022
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“Designing with nature” Retrofit and conservation of buildings ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, October 2021
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“Biodesign in contemporary architecture” SOS School of Sustainability master’s in Design for Sustainability, Arch. Mario Cucinella, Bologna, IT, May 2021
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“Biodesign in contemporary architecture” Design and construction studio , Prof. Ingrid Paoletti, ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT, February 2021 Olga Beatrice Carcassi CV | 5
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“Fast-growing bio-based materials for construction” PSCE_ Design of subsystems and building components, Prof. Andrea Mainini, ABC Department Politecnico di Milano, IT, September2020
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“Biobased materials for climate-neutral construction” RIGENERA, Ordine degli Architetti di Reggio Emilia, IT, September 2022
Graduate Student Advisory
2022
Castellanos Salamanca, Laura Giovanna; Ibrahim, Fatima, MYC-CET: Bio-fabrication, a negotiation of materiality between alive and inert ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
Natalia Ramos Montilla, Architectured materials: Development of a 3D printable mycelium-based paste and the related extruder Mechanical Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Serena Graziosi & Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
Burgess, Zoe Alexandra, Urban Microalgae Cultivations: An Ecologic Revitalization of the Abandoned Porta Genova Railyard ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
Pradella, Federica Designing architectural technology for circularity : holistic approach for bio-based materials towards a retrofit of the existing building stock ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
2021
Pietro Minotti, Carbon footprint assessment of a novel bamboo-mycelium composite for building insulation Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich, CH. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert & Dr. Francesco Pittau
Marco Lenzi, Luca Ficocelli, A novel bioinspired material: growing Mycelium for tissue engineering, Chemestry Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Sara Mantero & Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
Bektas, Yagmu, Bio-Skin: Mycelium based facade panel system for circularity in architecture. ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, IT. Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Paoletti
Servalli, Maddalena;Dal Verme, Laura Mora;Pellegrini, Sara. Nymphaea. Rigenerazione climate neutral dell’area ex-industriale delle Fornaci di Caldè., ABC Departement, Politecnico di Milano, Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr.Francesco Pittau
2020
Marco Lolli, Toni Maksan, Pietro Minotti, Dario Quaglia, Climate-neutral building strategies Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich, CH, Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert & Dr. Francesco Pittau
2018
Livorno Marco. The veil. Rise of a green skyscraper in Beijing, ABC Departement, Politecnico di Milano, Teacher of reference: Prof. Dr.Ingrid Paoletti