Increasing biological and spatial diversity. Dialectics of design and scientific experimentation
Published 2025-07-02
Keywords
- Diversity,
- biodiversity,
- landscape architecture,
- context,
- afforestation
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Copyright (c) 2025 Chiara Geroldi, Thomas Cabai

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Abstract
This contribution addresses an experimental scientific project aimed at increasing biodiversity through a!orestation, developed by a multidisciplinary group in various parts of Italy within the National Biodiversity Future Centre, Spoke 5 Urban Biodiversity. The focus is on projects carried out in the Città Metropolitana of Milan and in Pistoia, involving the discipline of landscape architecture, in a multidisciplinary environment. The project has a particular nature being scientific while also incorporating spatial and design-oriented disciplines. It engaged with a variety of plots to be repeated, adapted, and monitored in diverse contexts, addressing both the ideal conditions of a scientific project and actual spatial ones. The process and interventions are discussed from a landscape architecture perspective showing the role that can be played by the discipline and reflecting on the value of diversity, both biological and spatial.