Gardens are open works, by nature fragile and subject to constant change since they are alive; they represent the cultural and social backgrounds, the fashions and the different ideas of nature that underlie their conception and construction. Somehow the Garden Exhibitions make it seem possible to stop time, to fix an image, to return to…

Natural Inclination 2021 is an opportunity for us to imagine new ways for living beings on our plant to live together, something that can only happen if we decide to give up our purely anthropocentric attitude towards what appears to be an increasingly «fragile humanity» for good. It was only twenty years ago that the…

Walking – either on our own or in a group, in the city or nature, snatching an hour from our hectic daily lives or on a week’s walking holiday, with all the equipment you can think of or merely barefoot in the meadows – has always been closely linked to our relationship with the landscape,…

The Garden of Eden is no moreis the expression used by Sir David Attenborough as he was given, in Davos on 21 January 2019, the Crystal Award, a prestigious award for artists who are committed to improving the world. With these few words the legendary naturalist and science populariser set an image, both perfect and…

Since its first edition in 2011, Natural inclination, the programme of summer’s end events, has been inspired by the personality of Ippolito Pizzetti (1926-2007) and his indefatigable commitment to the popularisation of the culture and art of garden design, a poetic action with a wealth of significance from the ethical and social point of view…

This year, the series of events dedicated to gardens and organised by the Foundation provides a common perspective on two highly topical themes, which were introduced on recent occasions and that continue to arouse much interest on a cultural and professional level. Thanks to the results achieved by two scholarships held by the Foundation over…

The natural inclination of Ippolito Pizzetti once again inspires the brief cycle of events dedicated to the broad world of ideas and practices in gardening – this time with a special focus on the trade of the landscape designer – and directs the contents. Pierfrancesco Stella presents the results of the study conducted at the…

With the end-of-summer initiative Natural Inclination, dedicated to the vast world of garden ideas and practices, the Foundation proposes reflecting on current issues, to be tackled and shared through various stories and languages. This is an attempt to consider a “new” way of relating to nature, which emerges in the most diverse contexts, and the…

The Foundation proposes a cycle of public events which, through various stories, places, topics and languages, aim to support and feed the ever-increasing “natural inclination”, a possible antidote to the strife and conflicts of our times and tangible expression of new hopes and plans, able to involve everyone who feels like an inhabitant and part…