Luca Brunelli

• Senior Lecturer / Stage leader
• Architecture Staff

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Book Section

An activity field guide in the landscape

Brunelli, Luca and Mochrie, Neil (2024) An activity field guide in the landscape. In: Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers. Intellect Books, Bristol.

Domesticating SDGS in Rwanda’s Housing: The Case of Karama Model Village in Kigali

Malonza, Josephine and Brunelli, Luca (2023) Domesticating SDGS in Rwanda’s Housing: The Case of Karama Model Village in Kigali. In: Design for Resilient Communities: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023. Sustainable Development Goals Series . Springer, Cham, pp. 153-165. ISBN 978-3-031-36639-0

A Salutogenic Approach to Age Friendly High Streets

Brunelli, Luca (2022) A Salutogenic Approach to Age Friendly High Streets. In: Environments by Design – Health, Wellbeing and Place. AMPS Proceedings, 26 (1). AMPS, Architecture Media Politics and Society, pp. 196-205.

Older People’s Well-being Affordances at the Local High Street: A Study of Local Town Centres in Edinburgh

Brunelli, Luca (2015) Older People’s Well-being Affordances at the Local High Street: A Study of Local Town Centres in Edinburgh. In: EDRA46 Los Angeles Conference Proceedings. The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Madison, WI. ISBN 9781329091368

From Modular Architecture to Adaptable Collective Housing: A design charrette bringing the open building knowledge to the “Solar Decathlon 2012 Europe”

Brunelli, Luca and Bonet Miro, Ana (2011) From Modular Architecture to Adaptable Collective Housing: A design charrette bringing the open building knowledge to the “Solar Decathlon 2012 Europe”. In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference of CIB W104 and W110 - Architecture in the Fourth Dimension. International Council for Building (CIB), Rotterdam, pp. 139-145. ISBN 0-937994-44-8

Article

Implementing SDGs in Rwanda's Rural Housing: Lessons from Karama Model Village

Malonza, Josephine and Brunelli, Luca (2025) Implementing SDGs in Rwanda's Rural Housing: Lessons from Karama Model Village. Rwanda Journal of Engineering, Science, Technology and Environment, 7 (1). ISSN 2617-233X

High streets, ageing and well-being

Brunelli, Luca, Smith, Harry and Woolrych, Ryan (2025) High streets, ageing and well-being. Journal of Urban Design, 30 (2). pp. 223-253. ISSN 1357-4809

A salutogenic urban design framework: the case of UK local high streets and older people

Brunelli, Luca, Smith, Harry and Woolrych, Ryan (2022) A salutogenic urban design framework: the case of UK local high streets and older people. Health Promotion International, 37 (5). pp. 1-17. ISSN Print: 0957-4824; Electronic: 1460-2245

Ageing UK High Streets: adding life to years

Brunelli, Luca (2019) Ageing UK High Streets: adding life to years. MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) (30). ISSN 1860-3211

Edinburgh: Exploring how older adults make use of their local high streets

Brunelli, Luca (2016) Edinburgh: Exploring how older adults make use of their local high streets. Journal of the Centre for Accessible Environments (146). pp. 24-25. ISSN 0959-1591

Everyday Life and Older People’s Well-being in Local Town Centres in Edinburgh

Brunelli, Luca, Smith, Harry and Woolrych, Ryan (2016) Everyday Life and Older People’s Well-being in Local Town Centres in Edinburgh. Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy.

The Future of Ageing-in-Place: a new well-being agenda for local high streets

Brunelli, Luca, Woolrych, Ryan and Smith, Harry (2015) The Future of Ageing-in-Place: a new well-being agenda for local high streets. International Longevity Centre UK Blog.

198 "low-cost dynamic housing" units in Valdivia, X Region, Chile

Brunelli, Luca and Bonet Miro, Ana (2007) 198 "low-cost dynamic housing" units in Valdivia, X Region, Chile. Informes de la Construction, 59 (506). pp. 73-85. ISSN 0020-0883

Conference or Workshop Item

Salutogenic high streets and older people’s well-being

Brunelli, Luca (2025) Salutogenic high streets and older people’s well-being. In: Salutogenic high streets and older people’s well-being, 24 February 2025, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

From rural to urban, domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s model villages

Brunelli, Luca (2024) From rural to urban, domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s model villages. In: From rural to urban, domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s model villages, Friday 1st of November 2024, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s housing: the case study of Karama model village in Kigali

Brunelli, Luca and Malonza, Josephine (2024) Domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s housing: the case study of Karama model village in Kigali. In: 11th East Africa Architecture Workshop and Exhibition, 28th and 29th of August 2024, School of Architecture, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

How well-being of older people can be supported by local high streets?

Brunelli, Luca (2024) How well-being of older people can be supported by local high streets? In: SEDA Health and Wellbeing Green Drinks, 18 January 2024, GSA, Reid Building.

Ageing in a Changing Climate: Implications for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities

Woolrych, Ryan, Haq, Gary, Latter, Briony, Abdulkader, Jamil, Brunelli, Luca, Fontana, Sheena, Fox, Steohen, Kerr, Bella, Fang, Mei Lan, Marshall, Shelagh, McKillop, Allister, Pengelly, Ro, Scrutton, Pat and Whitelegg, John (2023) Ageing in a Changing Climate: Implications for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. In: British Society of Gerontology 52nd Annual Conference 2023, 5 - 7 July 2023, Norwich, UK.

Domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s housing: the case of Karama model village in Kigali

Malonza, Josephine and Brunelli, Luca (2023) Domesticating SDGs in Rwanda’s housing: the case of Karama model village in Kigali. In: UIA World Congress of Architects 2023, 2-6 July 2023, Copenhagen.

Rwanda’s model villages and the ‘Vision 2050’ rural/urban divide: the case study of Karama in Kigali

Malonza, Josephine and Brunelli, Luca (2022) Rwanda’s model villages and the ‘Vision 2050’ rural/urban divide: the case study of Karama in Kigali. In: Development Studies Association 2022 conference, 6-8 July 2022, online.

Mining Renfrew Street: climate numeracy in reverse

Brunelli, Luca and Mochrie, Neil (2022) Mining Renfrew Street: climate numeracy in reverse. In: Essential Shifts. Ecological and Climate Emergencies in Architectural Education: How do we deliver a responsive education?, 1st June 2022, Online.

Edimburgo: patrimonio, spazio pubblico e benessere [Edinburgh: urban environment, public spaces, and wellbeing]. 1. Public space and health promotion: a salutogenic approach. 2. Salutogenic urban space: Edinburgh's high streets as well-being resources for an ageing population

Brunelli, Luca (2022) Edimburgo: patrimonio, spazio pubblico e benessere [Edinburgh: urban environment, public spaces, and wellbeing]. 1. Public space and health promotion: a salutogenic approach. 2. Salutogenic urban space: Edinburgh's high streets as well-being resources for an ageing population. In: Edinburgh, public space and well-being, 24.03.2022, Florence, School of Architecture.

Salutogenic High Streets and Older People's Well-being

Brunelli, Luca (2021) Salutogenic High Streets and Older People's Well-being. In: Environments by design, Health, Well-being and Place, 1-3 December 2021, online.

The Future of Live/Work in New Lanark

Brunelli, Luca and Mochrie, Neil (2021) The Future of Live/Work in New Lanark. In: New Lanark: A Living Legacy Anniversary Conference, 2-4 March 2022, New Lanark.

Post-COVID challenges and opportunities for making local public space age friendly

Brunelli, Luca (2021) Post-COVID challenges and opportunities for making local public space age friendly. In: Forum Transforming Neighborhoods: The challenge of communications and social participation during the pandemic, 27 May 2021, Santiago de Chile.

Adding years to life: urban heritage and older people's well-being

Brunelli, Luca (2020) Adding years to life: urban heritage and older people's well-being. In: Patrimonio Vivo, Interamerican Development Bank, 6 October 2020, Online.

Between Emic and Etic: a Design Pedagogy with Older people

Brunelli, Luca and Bonet Miro, Ana (2017) Between Emic and Etic: a Design Pedagogy with Older people. In: Architecture Connects, Association of Architectural Educators, 6-9 September 2017, Oxford Brookes, UK.

Everyday Life and Older People’s Well-being in Local High Streets

Brunelli, Luca (2016) Everyday Life and Older People’s Well-being in Local High Streets. In: Mobility, Mood and Place: Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing, 11-14 October 2016, Edinburgh.

Everyday life and Older People’s Well‐being in Local High Streets

Brunelli, Luca (2016) Everyday life and Older People’s Well‐being in Local High Streets. In: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, 6-8 July 2016, Stirling.

Show/Exhibition

"Delightful Fun: A Cedric Price Thinkbelt for Our Times"

Brunelli, Luca (2024) "Delightful Fun: A Cedric Price Thinkbelt for Our Times". [Show/Exhibition]