Saša Dobričić is full professor of architecture at the University of Nova Gorica and founding director of the international doctoral programme in Cultural Heritage Studies. She is also director of the Joint Second Level Master in Economics and Techniques for the Conservation in Architectural and Environmental Heritage established between University of Nova Gorica (SI) and University Iuav of Venice (I).
She has been teaching and mentoring at graduate and undergraduate level for two decades promoting the interuniversity cooperation. She has been active member of UNISCAPE (European Network of Universities for the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention) since its establishment, and has been elected as President in 2024 for the mandate of 4 years. She is member of the Slovenian national commission UNESCO.
She has covered several advisory positions for local and national authorities in the field of landscape, sustainable urban regeneration and heritage preservation. Currently she is appointed to coordinate cross border green spatial design strategy for the GO BORDERLESS 2025-Nova Gorica/Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025. She acts as Head of Green Built Environment division at Green Technology Centre, established by University of Nova Gorica and Municipality of Nova Gorica.
Her research was strongly influenced by her professional experience in design and building preservation, which oriented her research interests toward adaptive reuse of built environments. Her research interests and contributions are mainly related to the investigation of the landscape approach in sustainable urban regeneration and interpretation of different design cultures of reuse at building, urban and landscape scale.
Recent EU research consortium projects acting as Principal Investigator: GreenInCities/Demonstrating Holistic Data-driven Co-Creative Approaches in Nature Based Solutions towards climate Adaptation and Mitigation (1.2024-1.2028, HORIZON EUROPE/HORIZON IA); RE-VALUE/Re-Valuing Urban Quality & Climate Neutrality in European Waterfront Cities (1.2023-31.12.2026, HORIZON EUROPE); DECORATOR, Circular transformation in architecture and construction in the Danube region (1.2024-1.2027, EU Interreg Danube); URBINAT, Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of environmental and marketable NBS (06.2018-04.2024, HORIZON2020 Program); GO BORDERLESS!2025/Nova Gorica-Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025 (1.2022-1.2026); Cultural Bees, Promotion of entrepreneurship skills in the Cultural and Creative Industry among youth (1.2024-1.2027, Creative Europe); 4P, Percorsi transfrontalieri scoprendo Pier Paolo Pasolini (4.2024-4.2027, EU Interreg); PERIPHERAL VISIONS (2.2024-12.2026, Interreg Italia-Slovenia).
Concluded EU projects as Principal Investigator: CLIC, Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse (11.2017-05.2021, HORIZON2020); SUSTCULT, achieving SUSTainability through an integrated approach to the management of CULTural heritage (2011-2014); AT FORT-Atelier European Fortresses (2012-2014, INTERREG IVC); PRATICONS-Practises of conservation of the architectural heritage (Interreg ITA-SLO, 2012-15).
Main publications: DOBRIČIĆ S., ACRI M., GREFFE X., Intangible matters: the production of heritage in the perspective of circular economy, Springer (April 2025); ACRI M., DOBRIČIĆ S., JOKILEHTO J., The Intimate circular dimension of historic preservation and HUL, Springer (April 2024); AGNOLETTI M., DOBRIČIĆ S., MATTEINI T., SALAZAR J.P., Cultivating the Continuity of the European Landscape, Springer Nature, 2024; DOBRIČIĆ S., ACRI M., Still Life – Natura Morta: the landscapes of proximity, Firenze University Press, July 2021; ACRI M., DOBRIČIĆ S., Uncomfortable Heritage, Officina, November-December 2021; DOBRIČIĆ S., ACRI M., "Creative Cities: Which Historic Urban Landscape, Mimesis, Milan, 2017.