IFLA 2024 - Invited SpeakerMaria Gabriella Trovato, PhDAssociate Professor of Global Landscape Studies
IFLA 2024 | Invited Speaker
Maria Gabriella Trovato, PhD
Associate Professor of Global Landscape Studies
Maria Gabriella Trovato is a licensed Architect and a Landscape Architect with a PhD in Landscape Architecture: Parks, Gardens, and Spatial Planning (UNIRC and the University of Naples, 2003).
Her most recent research focuses on Landscape in Emergency at the NMBU Center for Landscape Democracy (CLaD), Nordic Network for Landscapes and Welfare, HORIZON 2020 on Migration governance, Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture, EuropeAid project on Landscape Assessment and waste management, MEDSCAPES project funded by the ENPI/CBCMED, Landscape Atlas for Lebanon, and on FLRM (Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism) project funded by FAO and MOA.
She has worked in several countries, teaching landscape architecture at undergraduate and graduate programs, seminars, and design workshops in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the Middle East. She is the chair of the International Federation of Landscape Architects working group Landscape Architects Without Borders (LAWB).
As an architect practising and teaching landscape design, Maria Gabriella is interested in investigating new forms of urban living in a world of change and fluxing conditions. New challenges, like climate change, depletion of natural resources, conflicts between globalisation and local development, and re-localization of war refugees, are constantly shaping new equilibriums. It urges us to respond to them by investigating and proposing combinations of ecological performance and design culture.
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