The course aims to promote critical reflection and design experimentation focused on the landscape dimension of the contemporary habitat.
The course consists of ex cathedra theoretical communications and of an applied design experimentation. The latter one relates to the system of open spaces of the Roman area and aimes at their enhancement and/or redevelopment.
The design experimentation has its focus on the ability to interpret and re-elaborate the criticalities of the context of intervention, by experimenting innovative methods of investigation in order to identify points, layers, characters and conditions of the place which can be potentialities for the project and in order to allow a change of meaning by making small and discreet transformations.
Particular attention will be paid to the vegetation project in relation to the existing one, its characteristics and potentials for interaction with the social dimension.
The course proposes an experimentation strongly oriented towards the evolution of people's behavior in their habitat as a starting point for the development of new functions and new expressive characteristics.

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With a final landscape workshop (annual) in the third year, the student is preparing to conclude the didactic cycle training related to theoretical practice and operational practice of landscape design of the route triennial. For the students this is the moment in which to summarize the acquired knowledge and experiences previously carried out relating to the theoretical-cognitive and practical-design dimension of the architecture of the landscape.
The laboratory intends to implement and test the methodological tools provided aimed at the knowledge of material and immaterial reality of the anthropized environment with particular reference to the components of the landscape within which the project operates. In this form the
relations of the contemporary landscape project with the history of the territory, with the use of the urban scene and with the expressive domain of techniques in the relationship between architecture and environment, the predominant landscape natural characterization and urban built landscape.
The key issues on which the student will be asked to exercise their sensitivity and to refine their baggage technical are the following: observation and reading of the landscape, knowledge of the materials of the places, plots and geometry of the territories, change in the landscape and in the project, dialectic between architecture and nature, dialectic of internal-external relationships in the interaction between architecture and landscape, dialectic between figure and background, aspects
kinematics of the composition in the landscape project.
In particular, the relationships between the site's topography and anthropogenic actions and configuration will be studied in depth of empty spaces and urban morphologies, traces of historical memory contained in that territory and modifications recent, environmental, ecological, urban, social, role of that space. The work of interpretation reading e design will mainly focus on the urban landscape and will also find inspiration in other sectors disciplines starting from the visual arts.
The module aims to offer in-depth analysis and analysis of national case studies and "good practices" e international landscapes on urban and non-urban landscapes, which can also be of support to the choices for the development of various experiments that the student will carry out over the following years in the various fields characterizing the School of Landscape Architecture.

During the course, a bibliography will be provided which is necessary for the in-depth study of the topics covered.

Definition and characterization of ecosystem services linked to agricultural and forestry lands. Landscape ecology and ecological networks: applicative aspects in landscape design. The assessment of: (i) ecosystem services in the final landscape project: (i) the vulnerability factors of the landscape and (iii) risk of degradation. Ecological-environmental role of agroforestry systems contained in landscape design and management project.

Material provided by the teacher
Vittorio Ingegnoli (auth.) - Bionomia del paesaggio_ L’ecologia del paesaggio biologico-integrata per la formazione di un «medico» dei sistemi ecologici (2011, Springer Milan)
material provided by the teacher at the link https://www.unitus.it/it/unitus/Studenti/ Articolo/moodle by connecting to folder 118592 - Final landscape workshop
DIBAF - LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND DESIGN (L-21) Ecosystem services and project.