The City'Scape Award & Symposium returns to the Milan Triennale for its 10th edition on June 19 and 2025.
Sponsored by PAYSAGE with the international journal of landscape architecture TOPSCAPE and the collaboration of the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators (CNAPPC), the event promotes Landscape Architecture in the various fields of design to share reflections on the future and design strategies that can attribute new ethical, economic and social values to territories.
In a moment when rethinking the territory in environmental, regenerative and social terms is increasingly urgent, the 2025 symposium highlights the role that landscape design is called upon to play both in its title “Landscape Project for Life and Climate” and in its equally incisive subtitle “From Grey Infrastructure to Green Socialstructure,” inviting a paradigm shift to transform traditional gray infrastructure into living, relational, generative organisms.
Favaro1 is participating at the event as communication partner and presenting a project in "Landscape Green Company: product, process, start-up and patent innovation" category of the City'Scape Award 2025.
The current context: landscape as a response to the climate crisis
Landscape design asserts itself as one of the most effective and cross-cutting responses to the current context marked by environmental crises, social inequalities and rapid urban change. Nature and culture, ecology and community can restore centrality to a space, and landscape, understood as a synthesis of natural and man-made elements, can be the perfect tool for implementing more inclusive and sustainable policies.
Landscape regeneration interventions in parks, gardens and urban public spaces increase ecological resilience and enhance historical and cultural heritage, promoting sociality and mental and physical health to strengthen community cohesion and quality tourism. In this scenario, landscape design emerges as a strategic lever to build cities that are more livable, inclusive and resilient to the impacts of climate change.
The program: two days to reflect, compare and reward excellence
June 19, 2025 | 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
The first day will be dedicated to the regeneration of the historic landscape, with a focus on the value of Italy's historic parks and gardens. In the various speeches, sustainable solutions and projects funded by the PNRR Culture will be presented: an investment of more than 300 million euros to restore and enhance these assets, provide training with the “Beyond the Garden” program, and census more than 5,000 gardens to feed the Garden Route Italia, a network of cultural itineraries promoted by APGI since 2020. Thanks to NRP funds, there has been a +56% increase in accessibility for people with disabilities and new professional opportunities in the territories involved.
Among the afternoon speeches, at 3:50 p.m., “Quota Zero: shapes and surfaces for the urban landscape” will see Emanuele Bussolari, Favaro1 commercial agent, speak about sustainable solutions for grounding urban landscape design.
June 2025 | 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
The second day will broaden the look at different topics: from urban transformations related to Rome's Jubilee to landscape design as cultural practice and ecological and social infrastructure, to education and hybrid landscapes. The day will close with the award ceremony for the City'Scape Award 2025.
City'Scape Award: one winner, 260 projects from around the world
With more than 260 projects nominated from 26 countries, the 2025 edition of the City'Scape Award marks an all-time record. The award celebrates excellence in landscape design and the relationship between built space and nature, establishing itself as a global reference for the discipline. The success of the initiative lies in its ability to attract a plurality of visions, approaches and innovations that address contemporary challenges, from biodiversity to resilience, from sustainable mobility to social inclusion.
The projects are divided into 16 categories: Italy is confirmed as the protagonist, with 65 percent of the total participation, but the great international openness marks the growing importance of the event, with participations from Germany to Brazil, from India to Canada, via Croatia, Colombia and Australia.
The competing projects will be exhibited at the Triennale's Agora Theater on June 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., in the “City'Scape Exhibition.”
Admission to the City'Scape Award & Symposium 2025 is free, subject to registration by filling out the form at the following link: https://paysage.it/iscrizione-cityscape25/