SEARCH
In order to provide adequate answers and tools for the needs of ecological transition, in-depth and innovative research is needed. For this reason, the research component is the primary element of the Foundation’s
The activity acts broadly across all lines of intervention: from basic research, prototyping and production to distribution and commercialization of specific solutions.
Each component is composed of a working group, consisting of a senior researcher accompanied by postdoctoral and doctoral researchers.
The Foundation develops four macro areas of research: Urban Botany, Complex Systems, Spatial Analysis, Urban Sociology.
- Studies centered on Urban Botany explore ways in which the widespread and technologically advanced use of plants can foster the transition of cities to an enduring ecological niche.
- The city is then studied as a Complex System, whose actors interact in articulated, connected, sometimes unexpected ways. In addition, thanks to state-of-the-art expertise and tools in terms of satellite remote sensing,Spatial Analysis enables the elaboration of mapping and knowledge of urban territories with a view to strategic planning and management of the plant component.
- Finally, through its sociological component, the Foundation studies the city as a generator of intra-species and inter-species well-being, where well-being is understood as the balanced coexistence of all living organisms, governed by an equitable distribution of access to resources.
By 2050, the human population will be close to ten billion people. 70% will live concentrated in urban centers, many of which will be home to several tens of millions of inhabitants.
