1.  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 participation
Experiential design consultant in tourism planning and hospitality
Deni Ruggeri > bio sketch

2. 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

3. 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

6. 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

9. 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)

12. questions/comments?
deni.ruggeri@nmbu.no
Deni Ruggeri