Mescolanze e turbolenze

This research focuses on contemporary landscape design through the lens of multispecies and posthumanist theories. While theoretical reflection on these frameworks is increasingly consolidated and multifaceted, there has been limited exploration—particularly in practice—of their concrete implications in spatial design. Due to its intrinsic characteristics, landscape architecture may represent the most fertile ground for implementing principles of coexistence, cohabitation, and interspecies collaboration. By recognizing agency in non-human wills and acknowledging the operative nature of all contextual elements, the landscape must be understood in performative terms. Design and spatial configuration are thus not the exclusive domain of the landscape architect but can be shared, through forms of co-authorship, with other species and even non-living elements.
Supported by a theoretical framework, the research identifies and reinterprets projects that, by employing strategies such as indeterminacy, incompleteness, and openness, have activated the configurative potential of more-than-human agents. Through selected examples—without claiming to be exhaustive—the study identifies three design attitudes, corresponding to three different forms of collaboration between the landscape architect and non-human elements, outlining possible expressions of landscape design in a multispecies and posthumanist key.

Federica Andreoni, Architect and PhD in Landscape Architecture, she is an independent researcher. She has carried out academic and professional activities in Rome, São Paulo, Santiago, Porto, and Milan. She has taught at Sapienza University of Rome and UNICAM, and conducted research through fellowships and international programs, including a CheFare/MiBACT-SIAE residency (2019–20), which concluded with a publication for Il Saggiatore. In 2024, she published a monograph. As co-founder of Studio Gnomone (2013–21), she won the CNAPPC Award in 2019 and developed projects for MAXXI, the Superintendency of the Marche Region, and the Municipality of Amsterdam. From 2018 to 2024, she curated and coordinated cultural programs and exhibitions for the Real Academia de España en Roma. She has been a member of the editorial board of AR and contributor to journals such as Artribune and Il Giornale dell’Architettura.
Her research focuses on public space, contemporary design culture, and multispecies practices, with a transdisciplinary and critical approach. She lives and works between Rome and the Marche region.