Ricerc@Sapienza

Environmental risks such as failure of climate-change mitigation and adaptation—which is
considered the most potentially impactful risk and the third most likely, with water crises,
biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse (WEF 2016: 6)—are rising up the list of worldwide
concerns.
Landscape architects, and other professionals from related disciplines, are deemed
to contribute with “adaptive” architectural and urban design levering on nature-based
solutions and appropriate technologies1 (Schumacher 1974; Thormann 1979) in order to

Landscape architecture has experienced a paradigm shift in the last two decades, requiring designers to respond with evidence-based design to the dynamic and temporal quality erosion of the urban ecosystem. The Green Infrastructure approach promotes the elements of biodiversity and organized systems that are part of natural capital in any urban area, be it valuable or derelict, including individual technological devices that leverage biodiversity and are integrated in the architecture.