The main aim of Gardens and Landscape Architecture Design Studio is to build advanced knowledges and skills of the Art of Gardens and Landscape Architecture in relation to international developments of the discipline in a multidisciplinary approach. The "city as a great landscape", indicates a focus on the consolidated city as experimental territory of the project in different declinations: the city as large garden and ecosystem; the landscape project as tool for qualification, redevelopment and urban and metropolitan regeneration; the enhancement and transformation of use of brownfield or fringe areas. With this perspective, the contribution of the coordinated teachings will provide a multidisciplinary openness to the project and a deepening of some issues of particular importance, such as the design and management of water systems and the understanding of the economic dynamics connected to the project. landscape architecture.

The Design Studio will then provide skills and tools related to:

Identification and reading of urban and peri-urban empty spaces, with design applications on public spaces, squares and avenues, gardens, parks and green areas;

Traditional and innovative practices, with particular attention to the relationship between natural, artificial and socio-economics elements;

Design and management of urban water systems related to urban and peri-urban open spaces;

Identification, comprehension and evaluation of the variables that contribute to the development of the economic dynamics connected to the landscape architecture project.

Knowledge and Understanding

At the end of the design studio, the student will be able to understand and interpret the relationships between space, physical, social and economic elements, in order to define an adequate design of open spaces for a contemporary city.