INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR 2025

​​Gardener and Landscaper: how can we create a healthy collaboration?

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This year's seminar offers an international comparison of design and management approaches in the field of landscape design, through emblematic experiences from Northern and Southern Europe.

 

Tom Stuart-Smith, an international figure in garden design, multiple award winner at the Chelsea Flower Show and also known for his collaborations with the British royal family, will speak on behalf of Northern Europe. Stuart-Smith will present “WakeField”, a project developed within a museum garden in the North of England, made particularly significant by the fact that, during the 2020 lockdown, it remained one of the few public spaces open, becoming a central place for enjoying the landscape and socialising outdoors.

His talk will be accompanied by that of Katy Merrington, head gardener of the garden itself, with whom he will explore the operational relationship between design and daily landscape maintenance.

 

For the Mediterranean area, the focus will shift to the projects of Fernando Martos, a prominent landscape architect working mainly in the climatic and cultural context of Southern Europe. He will be joined by Carlos Rodríguez Molina, a regular collaborator in the transition processes between design and management.

Their talk will offer a reflection on the relationship between designer and gardener in the execution and post-construction phases of landscape projects.

 

The seminar thus aims to explore virtuous models of cooperation between design and management, highlighting the strategic role of the gardener in the qualitative and functional continuity of green spaces, in a comparison between Nordic and Mediterranean models of landscape care.

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Event translated into English and Italian*

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*Simultaneous translation with professional interpreters

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Purchased tickets are not subject to refund.