2025 edition - 2 - 12 September, 2025
For the 2025 edition the topic is Breathing Landscapes - New interactions between lands and atmospheres.
Series of lectures dedicated to contemporary landscape design themes:
- 08/09/2025, 6.00pm | Lecturer: Catherine Mosbach
- 09/09/2025, 6.00 pm | Lecturer: Paola Viganò
- 10/09/2025, 6.00pm | Lecturer: Erik Dhont
The lectures are free to attend, held in English and are accredited with 2 professional training credits by the Order of Architects. The lectures are held at the Arata Campus of the Piacenza Campus, Via Scalabrini 113 in Piacenza.
The LOL Landscape Of[f] Limits Summer School organized at Piacenza Campus is configured as an international workshop in which approximately 100 selected students from other Italian and foreign universities participate. The workshop is intensive and takes place in the first two weeks of September. The first edition was inaugurated in 2010 and over the years an intense and experimental teaching and research experience has developed aimed at:
- develop the international identity of the School, both in the involvement of students and teachers from other universities, and in thematic approaches;
- discuss the prospects for transformation and development of contemporary cities and territories in a moment of strong crisis, taking the Piacenza reality as an exemplary case study;
- innovate the teaching methods of the discipline, towards the application of forms of interaction and comparison in architectural and landscape design with a heterogeneous panel of teachers and team leaders.
It is a very intense experience both from an educational and social point of view due to the strong interaction between students, teachers and industry experts involved. The selected students participate daily in design ateliers where, in groups, they develop a project under the close supervision of team leaders (expert founders and partners of international architecture firms). Attendance is compulsory and takes place in the Pavilions of the Arata Campus where students can use all the Campus services (library, laboratories, sports facilities, etc.). A digital platform functions as a document collector, in order to stimulate the sharing of drawings and materials during the workshop activities. The workshop ends with the presentation by each group of the project and the exhibition of the elaborate products followed by the ceremony of delivery of the certificates of participation.