Anna Maria Orru
Doctoral student
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
Biography
Anna Maria Orru’s phd covers the distinct topics of food, architecture, senses and urbanism, explored through the distinct study of organoleptic qualities in urban foodscapes, as a way to explore food systems on both the macro and micro levels. Foodscapes refers to food-related places in cities where food is produced, consumed, traded, and distributed. In the move to make food more accessible in the urban fabric through a rising movement in urban agriculture, re-imagining the urbanscape as partially a food and farm ’scape’ responds to societal challenges around food security and rising urbanisation, and could render these spaces as active and participatory social entities as well as places of ecological well-being and awareness towards sustainable urban development.
Research Interest
​MPDSD, KTH-sustainability studio, Lund Industrial Design, BOM165 Civil and Environmental Engineering, ARK 176, Biomimicry Student competition 2012
Publications
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Tuveri A, Paoletti AM, Orrù M, Melis GB, Marotto MF, Zedda P, Marrosu F, Sogliano C, Marra C, Biggio G, Concas A. Reduced serum level of THDOC, an anticonvulsant steroid, in women with perimenstrual catamenial epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2008 Jul 1;49(7):1221-9.
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Paoletti AM, Cagnacci A, Orrù M, Ajossa S, Guerriero S, Melis GB. Treatment with flutamide improves hyperinsulinemia in women with idiopathic hirsutism. Fertility and sterility. 1999 Sep 30;72(3):448-53.
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Paoletti AM, Orrù M, Floris S, Mannias M, Vacca AM, Ajossa S, Guerriero S, Melis GB. Evidence that treatment with monophasic oral contraceptive formulations containing ethinylestradiol plus gestodene reduces bone resorption in young women. Contraception. 2000 Apr 30;61(4):259-63.
