Research Associate
Center for Research Activity – CID
Narrower scientific field: Urbanism
Area of research: Urban Design, Urban Regeneration, Urban and Spatial planning
Tatjana J. Mrđenović, born in Belgrade in 1975, is a reputed urban planner and urban designer. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 2001, majoring in Urban Reconstruction. Since 1997. she has been working as a student demonstrator, 2004., teaching assistant and 2018., research associate at FABU. In 2003, she enrolled in a master’s degree course in Urban planning, design, and management at FABU. In 2012, she defended her doctoral dissertation on Principles of Integrated Urban Design in the Process of Urban Regeneration.
Since 2002, she has been continuously improving herself at national and international professional courses and conferences, becoming a mentor and author. She holds awarded scientific and professional awarded works in the fields of urban design, urban planning and urban regeneration such as Sustain the city, Guide for urban analyses in the process of urban design, Integral strategy of tourism valorization of NP Skadarsko jezero.
She has held invited lectures at UNIWA and organized several thematic sessions at international conferences. She has edited the special edition of the journal Urban Design International Reflections on Balkan Urbanism and published scientific papers on the SCIE and ESCI lists. In 2014, she was a tutor at ISOCARP’s workshop EUSS5 in Tours, France in the field of sustainability and heritage protection and one of the Doctor Europeus mentors.
As urban planner and a successful urban design expert, she developed the (Integral) Play of Urban Design, a method for managing wicked urban and spatial regeneration problems.
She is the editor-in-chief of BAB international scientific conferences, including Balkan Patterns in Architecture and Urbanism, Decoding Balkan, and Global Village – Shelter for Resilient Living 1 and 2 that gathered over 200 scientists and professionals from the country and abroad.
Since 2005, she has been participating in National and European scientific projects such as ELTIS, OIKONET where she introduced new seminar Habitat regeneration strategies. She was the national consultant of GIZ and UN-Habitat SIRP for the component of Integral Local Development and GIS (TIS).
