Five Master Degree Thesis in Landscape Architecture. The wit of the Landscape Architecture in the new climate regime

By its ‘natural inclination’, the landscape project is transdisciplinary, interscalar, sensitive to the dynamics of living entity. At whatever spatial and temporal scale it operates or whatever category of intervention it is called upon to deal with, the landscape project represents - today more than ever - a device, both powerful and subtle, capable of detecting, revealing, accompanying, changes in places, territories, habitats, ideas of nature.

The five selected master's thesis intend to compose a minimal but significant repertoire of types of Landscape Architecture projects, where the processes of transformation and management of open spaces and widespread naturalness are investigated in function of some increasingly urgent quality objectives. Attention to climate change, ecological revitalization, environmental regeneration of post-industrial areas, active conservation of heritage sites, production of individual and collective well-being in everyday places, increase in ecological connectivity, biodiversity and widespread naturalness in urbanized territories: these are the main topics explored in the chosen students works.

Furthermore, the proposed selection intends to show a pedagogical work in the field of Landscape Architecture based on “research by teaching”: an approach envisaging that research and teaching activities are closely intertwined, with the aim of nourishing each other giving rise to opportunities for innovative practical/theoretical explorations. Three of the five thesis works were developed in the framework of collaboration agreements between teachers and public or private bodies. Moreover, one of the five was awarded with 2023 IFLA EUROPE Student and Young Professionals Competition.