Landscape, Ecology, Urbanization

Elena Cogato-Lanza, Gabriele Manoli, Yves Kazemi

This course explores the relationships between landscapes, ecosystems, and urbanization through a territorial design-oriented perspective. It emphasizes the complex interactions shaping territories and addresses their project as a wicked problem, requiring integrated, multi-scalar and interdisciplinary responses. Urban–rural ecosystems will be analysed with a focus on nature-based solutions, decarbonization, and post-automobility transitions. Through lectures and discussions, students will develop the tools to analyse and design spatial systems undergoing environmental and societal transitions. The key notion of system, ecosystem service, non-built space, and multifunctionality will be the main coordinates for an interdisciplinary conversation on both the possibility to improve a (radical) change and the imperative of preservation.