The Philippine Italian Association has partnered with the Politecnico di Milano to bring to the Philippines the Poli-Tech Stories:
a series of encounters on Politech Culture with Professors and researchers of this prestigious university.
With them we will hear stories of Science, Technology, Creativity, Human and Professional Stories, and finally stories of our Future!
HERE THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR
The second of these encounters will be virtual, on Zoom, on March 28, at 5:00 PM.
Speaker of this Poli-Tech Story will be Professor
Sara Protasoni.
She is the Head of the M.Sc. in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design Politecnico di Milano - Piacenza Campus, is associate professor in Landscape Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and is part of the Board of Landscape Architecture Doctorate Program at the University La Sapienza in Rome
At Politecnico di Milano, she combines teaching with an intense activity of design and theoretical research on landscape architecture around three main lines of research: the issue of landscape in the context of the enhancement of cultural heritage; the design of the public space (for the Politecnico she has drawn up the redevelopment project of Piazza Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, inaugurated in May 2016) for sustainable and resilient cities; infrastructures and landscape in relation to climate change effects.
She is the author of several monographs and more than one hundred essays, published in books and magazines in the field. She has collaborated with several magazines, including DOMUS and CASABELLA, and has twice been editor of the magazine RASSEGNA directed by Vittorio Gregotti.
Fragile Landscapes: Around the Concept of Sustaining Beauty
In recent years, urged on by environmentalism and global ecological awareness, landscape architecture has begun to demonstrate its fundamental role not only in defining beautiful and efficient places to live, but also in guaranteeing the continuity of many eco-system services in the built environment that are crucial to primary processes, such as normalising the carbon and nutrient cycle, adapting to and mitigating climate change, capturing and purifying pollutants, filtering fresh water and combating desertification phenomena. This new global ecological vision, which is indispensable for better clarifying the ethical and technical commitment to environmental issues, is now even more urgently required by the proliferation of crises (including the Covid19 pandemic) in different regions of the planet that call for transformative action. The conference will present examples of the new commitment of landscape design to address the contemporary ecological crisis.