Daniela Colafranceschi is Full Professor of Landscape Architecture SSD ICAR 15 at Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (UNIRC), dArTe, Department of Architecture and Territory.
Graduation in Architecture at La Sapienza University, Rome (1989).
PhD Degree in Architectural Design, at the Federico II University, Naples (1994).
At the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (UNIRC) she has been teaching since 1991. Contracts as Professor between 1995-1997. Fellowship CNR NATO 1998-1999 (Barcelona, Spain). University Researcher 1997, confirmed in 2001.
Associate Professor 2001, confirmed in 2005.
Full Professor in 2005, confirmed in 2008.
From 2007 to 2012, she is Head of International Relations and Erasmus activities, (Faculty of Architecture and then Departments OASI and DARTE). From 2011 to 2013, Coordinator of the PhD course in Architecture of Parks, Gardens and Regional Planning (where she has been professor since 1998), latterly in charge of the Curriculum of Landscape Architecture for the PhD in Architecture.
Since 2013 she is Professor Member for the PhD in Landscape and Environment - La Sapienza University, Rome, as well as External Expert for the PhD in Landscape Architecture at University of Florence in which she is in the Teaching Staff.
Besides, she is Member of the Scientific Committees of many European and International Masters.
Primary focus of her research is the landscape design, at different levels and scales, from the urban exterior to the territorial interventions, especially aimed at the Mediterranean area and their specific issues and complexities. Among many activities, she is currently involved in exchanges and research collaborations between universities and international Institutions.
She is Scientific Director for the European Project: CHANGING LANDSCAPES: MEDITERRANEAN SENSITIVE AREAS DESIGN, (2008-2011) supported by EU funding (IT2 ERA10 code)
Directed to the Landscape Design for critical areas of our Mediterranean context, the project involved a network of partner Universities of this geographical area and of further invited international Universities. During three years, among more than 40 teachers and 250 students involved, we worked on seminars, conferences, workshops, meetings, laboratories, which have built an attitude of reading, interpretation and design of the Mediterranean landscape system, for areas on the limit -physically and conceptually- as are the neglected, abandoned or neuralgic one. Formative and applicative experiences on the contemporary phenomenon, where the centrality of the landscape design redeems a habitat quality, as a space of identity and relationship. Partner Universities: LUH Leibniz Universität Hannover / UPC Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya / TUM Technische Universität München / UMA Universidad de Málaga / Universidade Lusiada de Lisboa / UTH University of Thessaly / IUAV Venice / Polytechnic of Milan. Invited universities: ENA-Rabat, Morocco / University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia / UN Universidad Nacional de Cordoba / UNITN University of Trento / University of Cyprus / TU Technology University - Istanbul.
Since 2011 she is the Italian Representative for RedSur – Network of Universities, Latin America, about the urban public spaces design in the contemporary city: “Urbanismo contemporáneo, nuevos compromisos”.
With Paola Raffa she is Scientific Manager of the UNESCO Chair Mediterranean Landscape in Emergency (MeLANinE) 2017- UNIRC RC
She is member of the Executive Committee of the IASLA Scientific Society - Italian Association of Landscape Architects - since its foundation (2017). The IASLA Scientific Society gathers investigators and experts in landscape architecture with the aim of strengthening, promoting and disseminating the knowledge, the meanings and the role of landscape architecture, in terms of teaching, sensibility, research and cultural dissemination of its contents.
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