Monza Paesaggio Week 2026
During Monza Paesaggio Week 2026 at Villa Reale in Monza, Andreas Kipar and Martina Erba shared visions and projects exploring the transformative role of public space and climate adaptation in contemporary cities.
Conceived as a platform for dialogue between institutions, designers, and citizens, Monza Paesaggio Week 2026 explores landscape as a common good and a strategic tool to address contemporary environmental and urban challenges. Through talks, exhibitions, and public events, the initiative promotes a broader understanding of landscape: not only as aesthetics, but as an active infrastructure shaping everyday life and future cities.
Andreas Kipar shared local case studies reflecting an approach centred on Nature-based Solutions, a key design element for ecological transition and public space regeneration. Among them, the “Meda 2025 Nature-based Solutions Laboratory”, awarded at the City’Scape Award 2024, where green corridors, permeable public spaces, and slow mobility systems redefine the relationship between nature, production, and urban life in the Brianza territory.
His contribution also highlighted the ongoing regeneration strategies developed in Paderno Dugnano and Lissone, where public squares and open spaces are being transformed into climate-responsive and socially active environments through new urban greenery, water management solutions, and multifunctional public areas designed for everyday life.
In an separate key-note, Martina Erba explored how green and blue infrastructures are no longer secondary elements, but the backbone of the contemporary city and our approach reflects this vision through urban regeneration projects that reinterpret public space as a resilient system capable of generating environmental and social value.
She shared some local examples as well, such as the regeneration of Piazzale degli Umiliati in Lissone show how large, monofunctional asphalted areas can be transformed into multifunctional, permeable, and vibrant public squares, capable of hosting different uses throughout the year and integrating sustainable urban drainage solutions and new green surfaces.
Similarly, in the Via Tevere Living Street in Rho, the street is reimagined as a “park-street”, where rain gardens, permeable surfaces, and vegetated basins act as active systems for water management and for building a more resilient urban environment. Here, nature and water are not decorative elements, but structural components that enhance environmental quality and create new spaces for social interaction.
LAND’s participation at Monza Paesaggio Week reaffirmed the importance of landscape as a driver for urban transformation, where Nature becomes infrastructure, and public space becomes a catalyst for collective wellbeing.
