Diamantouli, Eliki Athanasia (2025) From Wasteland to Landscape: a landscape design study of care. [Tesi di dottorato]

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Abstract

“From Wasteland to Landscape” focuses on the development of urban and landscape design approaches and techniques, appropriately hybridised with environmental engineering skills, applied to waste storage and treatment facilities (landfills) to reconvert them (in post- management) into equipped collective spaces for the contemporary city. This project, centred on the macro-sector of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Design, focuses on the necessary and fertile interactions between these design disciplines and those engineering sectors that are traditionally involved in waste and water treatment management processes and environmental protection, such as sanitary-environmental engineering, hydraulic engineering, and geotechnical engineering. The vision of “From Wasteland to Landscape” research project lies in the desire to anticipate, at the time when waste storage and treatment sites are being designed or operated, the unveiling of that formal and spatial potential whose need generally only becomes apparent and imposes itself in terms of an emergency when the facility is closed and enters the so-called post-operational phase. The doctoral course proposes a marked contamination between diaerent knowledge and skills, capable of fostering the development of complex competences for the development of innovative design and management services for contexts of high environmental risk, tending to promote an up-cycling of waste into a resource for the community, in the perspective of the circular economy, urban-mining, waste-mining, the containment of land consumption and sustainable development. This hybridisation of competences finds a particularly significant breeding ground in the PhD in Civil Systems Engineering, which integrates sectors of urban and landscape design. The project From Wasteland to Landscape intends to respond to the solicitations that, coming from diaerent national and international contexts, converge in the push towards a responsible use of natural resources, towards the protection of the environment, towards the definition of ways of inhabiting the planet and sustainable and regenerative lifestyles. The idea of considering the material waste of design for the formal definition of the contemporary city space finds full congruence with several Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 and in particular with SDGs 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable and 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

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