Dr. Sara Favargiotti

Sara Favargiotti is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento. She is specialized in landscape urbanism and ecological design with a specific focus on emerging infrastructures and their influence on cities, landscapes, and territories. Her research and teaching investigate the multiple identities of the landscape, focusing on the environmental challenges with a design research approach based on transformation through adaptation and innovation. She has been visiting scholar at the Observatori de la Urbanizació (Barcelona 2013), at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (2015), and at the Office for Urbanization (Harvard GSD 2016). Since 2018 she is a member of the Directive Board of IASLA, Italian Academic Society of Landscape Architecture (IASLA). She has been involved in numerous research and teaching projects on landscape and urban transformations. She is currently PI of the EIT Food-KIC "HelpFood4.0" project and coordinator of the Trentino hub of the research project "B4R. Branding4Resilience" (PRIN 2020-2023). She is the author of numerous essays internationally published and of the book Airport On-hold. Towards Resilient Infrastructures (Trento: LISt Lab, 2016) and co-author with Charles Waldheim of the book Airfield Manual: A Field Guide to the Transformation of Abandoned Airports (Cambridge: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2017).