Damiano Cerrone

Damiano Cerrone — urbanist and educator

Practice: Co-founder of SPIN Unit, an urban research and innovation practice based in Helsinki, and CoPlanAI, a platform for collaborative urban planning. Earlier, co-founder of UrbanistAI.
Think tank: Works on wicked problems at BAITT, a think tank on behaviour and architecture. Formerly at Demos Helsinki.
Research: Academic projects at Tampere University and the Estonian Academy of Arts on urban research and policy design for local and national governments.
Teaching: Lectures on urban studies and AI at universities in Finland and abroad.
Info: Mechelininkatu 23, Helsinki, Finlanddamianocerrone@gmail.com

Current projects

Current academic research

BIODENCITY

Biodiversity-sensitive urban densification across Europe

Tampere University

BIWE

Biodiversity interventions for well-being: rewilding, microbiota and health

Tampere University

EDITUA

An AI-supported incubator for green urban regeneration

Estonian Academy of Arts

Future Cities Platform

Culture, creativity and design for more resilient Baltic Sea cities

Estonian Academy of Arts

Practice-based research

Street Revival

Co-designing street furniture to revitalise public space in four European cities

CORE Spaces

AI-assisted planning, digital twins and participation for climate-neutral urban space

CoPlan AI

Deep Carbon Shift

A European alliance building skills for cities' climate transition

Selected projects

Vienna Supergrätzl

2026

Pärnu Parking Analysis & Strategy

2026

Tampere University

Neighborhood deadwood and yard rewilding modulate commensal microbiomes and inflammatory signals among urbanites

2026

Sustainable rewilding of urban spaces increases microbial diversity

2026

Humanizing Digital Twins

2024

Tallinn Service Accessibility Analysis

2024

Re-Imaging the Car-Free City, Munich

2024

Helsinki Summer Streets

2023

Tallinn 1.5 — A Plan for a Planetary City

2022

National Study of Shrinking Patterns in Estonia

2022

Recent

Invited expert, oral evidence on AI in planning — London Assembly Planning and Regeneration CommitteeLondon Assembly — webcast of the meeting, 1 Oct 2026 ↗Other2026

TICO — Officina della Conoscenza, BolognaComune di Bologna — Partecipa ↗Project2026 BSR Cultural Pearls - Participatory methods webinarcoplanai.com ↗Talk2026

Future4CitiesFuture4Cities 2026 — festival programme (event 28, “AI al servizio delle città”) ↗Talk2026

The Mandate to Imagine — keynote for the Danish Association of Architects (Arkitektforeningen)Arkitektforeningen — AI – hvad gør det ved vores samarbejde om arkitektur og byplanlægning? (event page, 21 Sept 2026) ↗Talk2026

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authoritiescoplanai.com ↗Project2026

FutureECOSInterreg Europe ↗Talk2026

Experiencing and envisioning La Statalecoplanai.com ↗Project2026

The relationship between land cover and the incidence of non-communicable diseasesCommon Ground — 16th International Conference on The Constructed Environment, Universidad de Navarra, 14–15 May 2026 (the slides are 2026_Pamplona - Damiano Cerrone) ↗Talk2026

Neighborhood deadwood and yard rewilding modulate commensal microbiomes and inflammatory signals among urbanitesMicrobiome 14(1), 181 (BMC/Springer Nature) ↗Publication2026

Places