Research

GLAS focusses its interest on design experiences, scientific investigations and theoretical reflections about urban spaces as an opportunity to promote ecological and social well-being.

GLAS focusses its interest on the relationship between energy and landscape by a conceptual reversal from an energy project directed at a territory to a territory requesting a landscape design.

Glass focuses his interest on design experiments which, in response to changing environmental conditions, outline a new approach to the use of plants in landscape design and experiment with new forms of urban naturalness.

Glass focuses its interest on studying the vast heritage of Genoa’s historic gardens, analyzing and interpreting their historical, artistic, and cultural value.

Glass focuses its interest on integrated strategies and specific landscape designs based on in-depth knowledge of the environmental, historical, and social values of rural landscapes.

GLAS explores how shifting geographies can be interpreted and acted upon through design strategies.

GLAS focuses on reframing landscape beyond the human–nature divide, advancing design strategies where ecological and aesthetic qualities emerge as a single field.

GLAS focusses its interest on design experiences, scientific investigations and theoretical reflections about the man-landscape links can be a solution to many diseases.

GLAS focuses its interest on strategies that integrate the needs and knowledge of communities into the creative process of landscape design.

GLAS focuses its interest on innovative landscape analysis tools that combine technology and contextual interpretation of the territory, i.e., broad and rigorous perspectives with close-up views that are sensitive to detail.

GLAS’ research analyses cultural landscapes as territories co-produced by human practices and natural processes over the long term, where cultural values, identities, and functions are sedimented.