International Landscape School

The International Landscape School is an on-field interdisciplinary research experience promoted by the UniBg PhD Program in Landscape Studies for Global and Local Challenges addressed to 20 PhD students. The aim is to integrate geographical and historical theories, methods, and tools with other disciplines – such as linguistics, visual studies, sociology, architecture, urban planning, etc. – to reflect on landscape as a complex and trans-scale concept. It is, therefore, articulated in three main sessions starting from global challenges related to world dynamics and imaginaries launched by three keynotes speeches about “landscape”, “Earth urbanity”, and “heritage”. Each session, then, focuses on a specific case study considered as “research patch”, the global stakes of which will be highlighted: the Astino Valley EU Landscape Award, the EU-LEADER Local Action Group of the Hills of Bergamo, and the Scalve Valley EU Archaeological Industrial Heritage.

A collaborative approach will guide PhD students in some immersive research experiences, based on methods for the global – ecological, just, economic, and digital – transitions to face world challenges, with a focus on “territorial patches”, as local contexts considered in a multiscale perspective.

The International Landscape School is free of charge. Each PhD student should however provide for their own mobility and accommodation expenses. The School is opened to 10 PhD students in Landscape Studies for Global and Local Challenges from the University of Bergamo and 10 PhD students from other PhD programmes at UniBG or other Universities worldwide. Classes will be held in English, Italian and French.