Deni Ruggeri has degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from Milan Polytechnic, Cornell University, and UC Berkeley. She has over 6 years of experience practicing landscape architecture and now focuses her research on community urban design, sustainable urban design, and new towns. Some of her areas of research interest include retrofitting modernist landscapes, developing ecodistricts and eco-cities, fostering identity and attachment in neighborhoods, and tapping into personal narratives. She utilizes participatory action research and community engagement approaches.

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