_welcome_

_I am a future of cities researcher, an architect by profession, and a project manager by experience_

_my unique ability is to harness chaos and ambiguity into practical systems_

_Passionate about tailoring unique futures for cities, I am an adept facilitator, working with various stakeholders to ensure urban influence and client satisfaction. My belief: cities reflect the people in them, and she’s here to shape their transformation._

_this is a great place to find out more about my Vitruvian endeavours, my PhD research, and professional background_

_Vitruvian

 

_Vitruvian is my endeavour to use the knowledge and skills I gained through the PhD research in practice_

_for this, I moved beyond the research results and transformed them further _ one of the outcomes of the research was the idea of smart city being outdated and it is time to use the smarter city or smarter approaches idea _ the step from this is the Smarter City Flywheel which can be applied to any organisation in the city_

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_Smarter Cities

_my PhD research is about how Melbourne-based city designing professionals (architects, urban planners, urban designers, and engineers) understand, operationalise and use the concepts of future of cities and smart cities in their practices_ 

_title: Making future cities ‘smarter’ by supporting city designing practitioners_

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_personal

_a few quotes I try to live by _ one is a fresh quote from Simon Sinek author who said what I like nearly the most about architecture:

_an architect imagines what if _ a builder figures out how to _

_great structures emerge only when the two work well together_

_the other is from Albert Einstein whose sentence always has been lightening up the scientist inside me:

_the most important thing is never stop questioning_

_the final one from Dan Sullivan always makes me trying something valuable:

_we are the architects of our lives not the victims of it_

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_contact

_please, let me know if I can be of your services any way through info @ fannimelles . com

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