Rewilding the Streetscape proposes a more human scale urban environment for the town of Gibellina by creating conditions for opportunistic and spontaneous plants to colonise portions of the street section, reducing its width.

Over time the streetscape is subsumed by plants and populated by birds and animals, gradually adjusting the town’s microclimate and shaping new human dynamics.

Extending the design area to the whole town, ‘My School is the Field’ transforms Gibellina into a new city-scale university campus for landscape studies.

In the campus, students can learn about different fields, such as botany, horticulture, and soil sciences, through a very hands-on approach.

The masterplan takes advantage of empty historical buildings and abandoned public spaces to create unique university facilities and new landscape experiences for research and testing.

The landscape framework is designed to deal with the extreme Sicilian heat and to cool down the urban area in order to make the campus facilities functional and comfortable year-round.

The type of campus itself addresses the problem of the Italian education system: too much theory and too little practice. It exalts the importance of ‘learning by doing’ to start dealing with real world needs from the earliest stages of the students’ academic career.