Professor of Architecture and
Urban Design, Keio University, Tokyo
co-founder
and co-director of International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism –
IKI
head of co+labo Radović, an architecture and
urban design research laboratory at Keio
University
visiting
Professor at the United Nations
University, Institute
for the Advanced Study for Sustainability, Tokyo
visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, DAStU (2017)
urban expert,
Consultant for Contextualisation at Gehl
Architects, Copenhagen
His research in architecture and urbanism and, consequently, the core of activities in his laboratory, focuses at the nexus between environmental and cultural sustainability and situations where architecture and urban design overlap, where traditional “architectural” and “urban” scales blur, where social starts to acquire physical form.
His investigations of the concepts of urbanity and sustainable development focus on culturally and environmentally diverse contexts which expose difference and offer encounter with the other. He argues that neither the path of ecological nor that of cultural sustainability can be undertaken separately, and indeed that there is no viable future without their harmonious synthesis. On that basis, he has developed the concept of eco-urbanity , which constitutes one of the hubs of his recent teaching activities and publications, and radical realism, as design praxis of eco-urbanity. Darko headed major research project Measuring the non-Measurable - Mn'M, funded by the Japanese Government's Strategic (Senryaku) Grant 2011-14, and is the member of Smart Communities project (2015-25), within which he initiated the Smart Islands research and action initiative.
Darko’s major academic employers were:
Darko’s major academic employers were:
- Keio University, Department of Systems Design Engineering
- The University of Tokyo, COE - Centre for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
- The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
- The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture
- Centre for the Planning of Urban Development, CEP, Belgrade
Over the last several years Dr Radović has guest-lectured in France, Japan, Malaysia, Serbia and Monte Negro, Philipines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, UK and Vietnam. He has published in Europe, Australia and Asia, in English, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese and Thai.
His research books include Green City (2005, Routledge/UNSW Press; with Low, Gleeson, Green); Urbophilia (2007 the University of Belgrade Public Art Public Space publishers), Cross-Cultural Urban Design (2007, Routledge, with Bull, Boontharm, Parin, Tapie), Another Tokyo (2008, University of Tokyo and ichii Shobou), eco-urbanity (2009, Routledge), small Tokyo (2012, Flick Studio and IKI, ed. with Boontharm), The Split Case: Density, Intensity, Resilience (2012, Flick Studio and IKI, ed. with Boontharm, Kuma and Grgić), Intensities in Ten Cities (2013, ed.), Tokyo dérive, (2013, ed.), Subjectivities in Investigations of the Urban: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore (2014), In the Search of Urban Quality (with D. Boontharm).
On 30 January 2015, the President of Keio University, Professor Seike Atsushi, acting on the recommendation of the Board of Councillors, conferred upon Darko Radović the title of Honorary Alumnus of Keio University.
On 30 January 2015, the President of Keio University, Professor Seike Atsushi, acting on the recommendation of the Board of Councillors, conferred upon Darko Radović the title of Honorary Alumnus of Keio University.
