| The PhD course has a strongly interdisciplinary character suitable for facing the great contemporary challenges: climate change, loss of biodiversity, inclusion, which are highlighting the need for a paradigm shift in the relationship between man and nature. The right to the landscape, as it is establishing itself within the contemporary disciplinary debate, constitutes an extraordinary space for action for the reduction of inequalities, the overcoming of conflicts, common access to fundamental rights, the protection of the earth's environment as "common house", space of cohabitat and coexistence. To face these challenges it is first of all necessary to make landscape research recognizable by focusing and communicating the sense of the research being carried out, i.e. its lines of force, its direction, its objectives, connecting in particular to the vast reflection on the change of the our relationship with the "natural". It is also necessary to establish new correlations between fundamental research and applied research, two symbiotic faces of research that cannot live without each other, on pain of cultural impoverishment that desertifies the dynamics of knowledge and separates science from society. It is essential to renew the interdisciplinary dialogue, bring together different scientific approaches, skills, methods and abilities to pursue and solve complex problems and inspire scientific discoveries through the exchange of ideas and the germination of unprecedented synergies (serendipity). The comparison with the great fields of research related to the Green New Deal, which will be at the center of national and international research strategies in the coming years and with the PNR 2021-2027 have guided the development of the PhD training program with the aim of bringing these themes within of a renewed scientific reflection, starting a comparison between the various disciplines present, schematically, attributable to three different matrices: scientific matrix, aesthetic-humanistic matrix, interpretative-design matrix, avoiding that climate change and environmental degradation are faced as a "sector ” and not instead as engines of transversal change in all sectors, and highlighting the growing, equally transversal value of landscape design. The Doctorate is oriented towards the training of researchers in the field of landscape design and interpretation, capable of dealing with problems and expectations that derive from the framework outlined above, making their skills and commitment available to the scientific community and the community, through a training course that is renewed year after year, while maintaining its recognition. |