Landscape scholarships

Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, within the framework of research activities on landscape and the care for places developed with its Scientific Committee, since 2015 establishes landscape study scholarships respectively named after Sven-Ingvar Andersson (1927-2007), Rosario Assunto (1915-1994) and Ippolito Pizzetti (1926-2007), key figures for the Foundation’s scientific work since its inception. The legacy of their tutelage continues to inspire and guide landscape studies and research.

The residential scholarships focus on three thematic areas that represent their cultural profile and operation field: Landscape project (Sven-Ingvar Andersson), Theories and policies for landscape (Rosario Assunto), Nature and gardens (Ippolito Pizzetti).

 

New Edition 2024-2025

deadline Friday 30 August 2024

Change to preserve

contemporary design and historical garden in the work of Pascal Cribier and Michael Van Gessel

Elena Antoniolli

Landscape scholarships – third edition, 2017/2018

Subject area Landscape project

For a herbarium of the new fields

Commons fields in the contemporary city

Serena Savelli

Scholarships for landscape studies – second call, 2016/2017

Subject area Landscape design

Quod agendum? Rosario Assunto, between report and design

summary of the scholarship outcomes, 2016

The analysis presented in the paper «Quod agendum? Rosario Assunto, between report and design» concerns a reflection on landscape carried out by philosopher Rosario Assunto (1915-1994) and more specifically the design aspects of his system. In order to identify Assunto’s directions on how to steer present and future activity, the research work analysed an extensive…

Ippolito Pizzetti. Educate while storytelling: of theatre, of landscape

summary of the scholarship outcomes, 2016

Everybody is entitled to modifying the horizon of the landscape.   After obtaining a degree in literature with Natalino Sapegno, Ippolito Pizzetti engaged in an exchange from his personal biography, which educated him from a very early age with music, readings and chance encounters: Wagner, Goethe and Pavese, hunting and fishing in the woods and…