Marcella Del Signore attended Autodesk Research’s “Encoding Experience: Conversations on Design, Emotion, and AI” in Boston. Over two evenings, she joined designers, technologists, and researchers exploring how human experience—joy, comfort, belonging, equity—can inform metrics, tools, and decisions in the built environment. Her participation connected practice with emerging methods, from mixed-method evaluation to privacy-aware, AI-assisted simulations, strengthening our commitment to people-centered design and clearer communication of experiential impact to clients and communities alike.

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Global Summer School 2025 in Rio de Janeiro.

X-Topia and CRG Architects Unveils Design for Aion: Centennial Monument at Southeastern Louisiana University.

X-Topia presents Emotive Geographies of the Mediterranean at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2025, Italian Pavilion – Terrae Aquae

As part of the 10th UN STI Forum, our team joined the Future of Cities: Envisioning Future HealthScapes symposium at the United Nations Headquarters. The session explored how interdisciplinary design can advance healthier, more equitable urban environments while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.

X-Topia has been selected as Finalist in THE PLAN Award 2024.

X-Topia’s principal, Marcella Del Signore will be lecturing and participating in roundtable discussions at the 2024 New York Architectural Biennale.

Universidad Iberoamericana interviews Marcella Del Signore

Entangled Matter gets featured in Russian Periodic Interior+Design

Marcella Del Signore, principal of X-topia lectures at Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo.

Marcella Del Signore, principal of X-topia lectures at University of Palermo

X-topia participates in the Hair Salon draws upon the unique Black texture to create an installation that centers Blackness as a cultural and technological force in the world.”

The Hair Salon exhibition published in the Architect's Newspaper

Marcella Del Signore participates in the NEOM- Zero Gravity Urbanism, Principles for a New Livability on the "Role of Science and Technology in Vertical communities and placemaking"

ENTANGLED MATTER- Urban Prototype for microclimate remediation developed through dynamic matter conversion and self-sufficient ecologies exhibited at the European Cultural Centre “Time- Space-Existence” exhibition during the 18th Venice Biennale.

Entangled Matter gets featured in parametric Architecture website

Aério is a prototype for urban surfaces and a soft machine conceived as a macro-breathing organ that explores forms of cohabitation of species through the ecology of breathing. The project links three main fields of inquiry: the public realm, socio-technical systems, and health. By mapping prototypical public spaces, the project aims to predict scenarios for dynamic absorption of CO2 in the public realm by interpolating data relative to material technology, human occupation, density, and surrounding air ecologies.

Marcella del signore lectures at Cambridge School of Art ENTANGLED ECOLOGIES of the PUBLIC REALM The exploration of the public domain is an important parameter to define how we live as collective and how we can rethink the fundamentals of living. The public realm is an expanded field where the deployment of collective ecologies is inherently connected to the socio-cultural production of space and forms of cohabitation of living systems. The talk addresses the intersection of technologies with the public/social/cultural realm through prototyping, material and fabricated systems, data-driven protocols, and mediated environments. Starting from Aério, an installation recently exhibited at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, a series of projects will be the vehicle to speculate on the current and future states of socio-technical apparatuses, interlaced ecosystems, and planetary entanglements.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer tempor iaculis sem sit amet pharetra. Fusce pulvinar tempus commodo. Mauris arcu urna, posuere finibus iaculis vel, semper sit amet nisi. Donec non pain eget happiness

Marcella Del Signore participates in the urbanNext Nature of Enclosure: Session 6. A discussion about the role of architecture, technology, and politics, that give rise to accelerated capital and planetary conditions within the Nature of Enclosure.

AÈRIO at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia 2021 - Padiglione Italia- curated by Alessandro Melis, part of the “Architecture as Caregiver” in the Italian Pavilion Resilient Communities at the Arsenale.

Marcella Del Signore launches her new bool "Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design"

Marcella Del Signore, principal of X-topia lectures at ISCTE-IUL

Modes of perceiving, experiencing and inhabiting cities are radically changing along with a radical transformation of the tools that we use to design. Cities, buildings, bodies are complex and system- ic organisms requiring approaches that engage new multi-scalar strategies to connect the physical layer with the system of networked ecologies. Over the past two decades we have witnessed a series of projects with an interest in shaping architectural form coining terms such as ‘datascapes’, and more recently, ‘atmospheric thinking’. In these projects computational technologies inform new relationships between information and matter, code and space to redefine new urban ecosystems where light, temperature, humidity, and biometric data are pre-conditions for spa- tial form. This exhibition presents a group of projects by leading international designers using emerging and novel forms of reading and producing spatial conditions that connect/visualize data, responsive systems, and sensing/actuation technologies, through micro and macro scales. The exhibition takes the opportunity to exhibit a range of projects, side by side, that transform data as an abstraction into spatial and experiential configurations. It aims at triggering discussion and debate on how the use of data in design methodologies and theoretical discourses have evolved in the last two decades and why processes of data measurement, quantification, simulation, ubiquitous technologies and algorithmic control, and their integration into methods of making architectural form and spatial experiences, are becoming vital in academic and industry practices.

Marcella Del Signore, principal of X-topia lectures at ACADIA 2020

Marcella Del Signore, principal of X-topia lectures at Pontifical Catholic University in Rio

Marcella Del Signore lectures at Iaac

Entangled Matter gets featured in the exposition "Rethinking Processes of Making for Healthier Futures” in Salone Satellite 2024