who am i_dr

Laurea in Architettura – Milan Polytechnic (IT) Masters of Land. Architecture and City & Regional Planning– Cornell (US) PhD in Landscape Architecture – UC Berkeley (US)

Practiced landscape architecture for 6 years (Design workshop; SWA group)Community design and participationExperiential design consultant in tourism planning and hospitality

Deni Ruggeri > bio sketch

Community Urban Design and Landscape Architecture PAR Participant Action Research/Design activism Community engagement (analog and digital) + Pedagogy: the classroom as a testing ground for community-life

Sustainable Urban Design Livability: sustainability of the heart Measuring UD qualities/Euroscapes project+ Interdisciplinarity/leadership

New Towns Retrofitting Modernist Landscapes/Ecodistricts and eco-cities Identity and attachment in residential neighborhoods+ Tapping into personal narratives and emotional connections

Deni Ruggeri > research themes

Librino > towers in the farm

New Towns Retrofitting resilience into Modernist Landscapes Ecodistricts and eco-cities Identity and attachment in residential neighborhoods Identity gradient: Place identity as a gestalt

+ Tapping into personal narratives and emotional connections

Livability > perceptions matter

Sustainable Urban Design Livability: sustainability of the heart Audit: benchmarking system compare livability across landscape/urban types Development of a digital inventory of UD qualities into an app Landscape “valuation” (Euroscapes project)

+ Interdisciplinarity/leadership

Zingonia > coauthoring new futures

Participant Action Research: Partnership; reflection; local vs. expert knowledge; education; engaged scholarship; change.

Strategic design: long term goals, short term tactics Zingonia UniverCity/Parking Day/ Zingonia da Colorare

Storytelling as a strategy for promoting positive change (Sandercock, Forester, Hester)

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Deni Ruggeri