Damiano Cerrone

About Damiano Cerrone

Damiano Cerrone is an urbanist and educator. He co-founded SPIN Unit, an urban research and innovation practice based in Helsinki, and CoPlanAI, a platform for collaborative urban planning. He works on wicked problems at BAITT, a think tank on behaviour and architecture. His academic projects at Tampere University and the Estonian Academy of Arts focus on urban research and policy design for both local and national governments. He lectures on urban studies and AI at universities in Finland and abroad. Earlier, he co-founded UrbanistAI and worked at Demos Helsinki.

Office
Mechelininkatu 23, Helsinki
Email
damianocerrone@gmail.com
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CV
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Practice

  • Co-founder2025–presentCoPlan AI
  • Co-founder2013–presentSPIN Unit
  • Co-founder2022–2025UrbanistAI
  • Expert2022–2023Tallinn Technical University
  • Consultant2021–2022Demos Helsinki
  • Principal Researcher2015–2020TERREFORM UR
  • Associate2014–2018Postopia
  • Associate2015–2016Spatial Ethnography Lab

Academy

  • Project researcher2016–presentTampere University
  • Project researcher2025–presentEstonian Academy of Arts
  • Visiting Researcher2024Chalmers University
  • Visiting Professor2018–2020Beijing University of Technology
  • Visiting Researcher2017Nokia Bell Labs
  • Visiting Researcher2014Sapienza University of Rome

Advisory, Review & Service

  • PhD thesis supervisor2026–presentPolitecnico di Torino
  • Grant evaluator2025–presentEuropean Commission
  • Advisor & Co-contributor2025–2026UrbanAI
  • Academic grant reviewer2025–2026Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Member of the advisory committee2026InnovateUS — The GovLab & Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, Harvard
  • Network member2025–2026AI Imaginaries network (Royal Danish Academy)
  • Academic reviewer2026Springer - BMC Public Health
  • Academic Reviewer2025Routledge
  • Advisory board2024City Destination Alliance
  • Jury member2023European Capital of Innovation
  • Fellow2023LINA (European Architecture Platform)
  • Academic reviewer2017Territorio