The design course is organized in four different sections:
1-Inquiring
The aim of this section is being able to keep up with and understand International policies which engage contemporary landscape design, such as:
- Green infrastructure, European Union strategy for Biodiversity 2020
- Natural capital and Italian National strategy for urban green areas
- Ecological meaning of urban green areas (Cfr. Carlo Blasi)

2- Orienting
The aim of this section is being able to orient oneself in the contemporary production of landscape design. The assignment is to study and describe, through a report card with pictures and drawings, one recent project for each and every one of the following design themes:
- Moving
- Coltivating
- Foresting
- Meeting
- Telling

3- Describing
The aim of this section is to establish the importance of description in the formation of the landscape designer.
Describing comes through:
- Individual perceptions of the area during site visits
- Images of the landscape produced by other authors ( Images, drawings, movies, etc.)


4- Designing
The design becomes a creative integration of the previous sections, and is organized in five different parts:

4.1 Parts
The aim is to frame and identify characteristics, similarities or differences of specific parts of the landscape. This happens through the use of morphology, idrography and ecologies and their entanglements and reciprocal relationships.

4.2 Demands
Problems, desires and aspirations by different part of the community which inhabits the site of the project. Mapping can come as second hand source material ( web analysis, online journals, locals associations blogs, etc.) or first hand source material such as interviews.

4.3 Strategy: concept/site plan.
It is about defining the strategy of the project through a summarized image that caters the idea of the project.

4.4 Evolutions
It is about choosing a specific element of the project, which can be considered significant, and developing a study about its spatial and temporal evolution.

4.5 Design specifications
It is about the description of specific parts of the project which helps to better understand and communicate the general landscape design strategy.

1- Corboz A. (1985), Il territorio come palinsesto, in Casabella, n. 516

2 - Caravaggi L. (2002), Paesaggi di paesaggi, Meltemi editore, Roma

3 - AA.VV. (2004), Paesaggi della biodiversità

4 - Morin E. (1999), La testa ben fatta, Raffaello Cortina editore, Milano

5 – G.Mantione; E.Romanelli, Il Corpo della terra, da una visione egologica a una visione ecologica, Castelvecchi, 2020.

6- Clement G. (2013), Il giardiniere planetario, Quodlibet, Macerata

7 – Caravaggi L.; Imbroglini C.; Lei A. (2019), Progettare infrastrutture flessibili, in Caravaggi L.; Carpenzano O., Roma in movimento, Quodlibet, Macerata

8 – Caravaggi L.; Carpenzano O. (2019), Dispositivo Pontili, in Caravaggi L.; Carpenzano O., Roma in movimento, Quodlibet, Macerata

National, European and global context of afforestation and forest restoration programs. EU Green New Deal, International Conventions and European Strategy on Biodiversity, National Urban Green Strategy and National Reports on Natural Capital. The Roman area: Lazio agrobiodiversity and conservation projects of the landscape of the “Campagna Romana”. Most relevant global forestry and forest restoration projects. Basic elements for afforestation techniques in a rural/forest environment and in a urban/peri-urban environment. The choice of forest tree species: climate and phytoclimatic belts, real and potential vegetation. Vegetation map of Rome and forest types of Lazio. Soil preparation techniques, planting and tending of forest trees. Reforestation in the plains and in the hill/mountain areas. Production and certification of forest nursery material. Examples of afforestation projects.

- Mengoli Stefano - Fare Verde urbano - Edagricole
- Ferrini, F., Van den Bosch, C. C. K., & Fini, A. (Eds.). (2017). Routledge handbook of urban forestry (Vol. 1). Routledge, Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
- notes and presentations of the lectures by the teacher

Hydrogeological risk: definitions and risk equation; statistics and events.
Floods and landslides: causes, mechanisms, classifications, impacts.
Hydrogeological risk management: tools for forecasting and prevention in the short and long term. Hydrogeological risk mitigation; risk cycle.
Planning aspects relating to hydrogeological and regulatory risk.
Conclusions and summary of the main arguments

1. Principi di geologia applicata per ingegneria civile-ambientale e scienze della Terra.
L. Scesi, M. Papini, P. Gattinoni
Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
304 pp. ISBN 978-88-08-18642-3

2. Le forme del rilievo (Atlante di Geomorfologia)
S. Ciccacci
Mondadori Università
633 pp. ISBN - 978-88-6184-734-7