Biography
Tomaž Pipan completed his undergraduate studies in Ljubljana at the Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Planning, with a degree in Digital Tool Development for Urban Design. He continued his education in England, where he successfully completed his master's degree in Landscape Urbanism in 2008. His project "Peri-Urban Nodalities", which explores the application of digital spatial tools in urban design and planning, was awarded with distinction. He continued his academic career at London Metropolitan University, where he received his PhD in 2014. His doctoral thesis "Capacity of Industry for Civic Culture" explores the importance and impact of industry and innovation on sustainable development and spatial structure.
Between 2011 and 2014, he worked at TU Berlin (IfA) within the Department of Sustainable Urbanism (Chora Conscious City), where he taught and researched the topic of urban systems and the integration of smart technologies. He led a group of programmers and geoinformatics experts and developed the interactive environment BrainBox ( External link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsr632Hikic Open in new window ) for stakeholder participation in spatial management.
Since 2016, he has been a researcher at the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana and an assistant professor since 2022. He teaches courses related to the visualization of contemporary space, settlement typology and digital tools. As a researcher, he focuses on the topics of settlement morphology and green infrastructure. He participates in and leads national and international research projects (Interreg ZeleNatura, CRP Architectural Landscapes and Regions).