Do you want to become an urban green designer?
IDI's course in Green Urbanism is a highly specialised full-immersion course that will enable you to learn advanced techniques for designing greenery in urban spaces, learning how to manage a project in all its phases. The specialisation course in Green Urbanism is aimed at professionals, architects, garden designers, nurserymen, agronomists and foresters, and all those who want to increase their skills in the field of designing urban green spaces, whether in the public or private sector.
Green Urbanism Specialisation Course Online
Green Urbanism Specialisation Course Online
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THE TRAINING COURSE
Public green plays an important role for urban spaces, not only of a purely decorative character. Green spaces, in fact, are part of the urban landscape, promoting harmony and balance in the relationship between human and environment, promoting the psycho-physical well-being of citizens and representing important spaces for socialization and leisure. In addition to the aesthetic and architectural, ecological-environmental, recreational and cultural function, urban greenery also plays a health function, without forgetting the protective function for the areas of the city that appear to be degraded or sensitive.
Urban green is no longer a luxury and expensive asset for the city, but a strategic economic and environmental resource to reduce financial costs and increase urban well-being.
The city must be modern and smart. We can therefore no longer do without the plan of the green and the communal landscape, with which to create a policy of environmental enhancement and landscape of the open urban territory.
The latest regulations for the development of urban green spaces have introduced measures to ensure that urban development is in line with the key principles of the Kyoto Protocol, with a view to sustainability and respect for the natural heritage. Therefore, the designer of urban green spaces must have specific skills not only related to the design of the green, but also normative, architectural, botanical and environmental.
The course in Green urbanism of Italian Design Institute aims to provide participants with all the skills required by the professional figure with a full immersion course, enriched by practical exercises on the planning, design, management, maintenance, selection and production of plant material, always respecting the landscape heritage and the ecological and economic balance of the communal territories.
Who is it addressed to?
The course is designed for all professionals and enthusiasts who wish to acquire advanced skills in the design, management and enhancement of urban green spaces with the aim of improving the quality of life in cities and addressing environmental and climate challenges. During the course, participants will explore innovative solutions to enhance urban biodiversity, optimise natural resource management, create inclusive green spaces and promote a culture of sustainability in urban areas.
What you will learn
- Design green spaces in cities
- Choose plants for the green in the city
- The hanging green, the parietal green, the vertical green
Rain garden, dry garden, wildflowers, green courtyards - Design solutions and materials
Course program
The birth of the Urban Green
- from the origin of the public garden to the concept of the private garden in the 20th century city and the idea of a green plan for the city - garden and green neighbourhoods
Spatial analysis and planning of the green fabric of the city
- geographical features of the territory, analysis of an urban fabric: centre, periphery, transitional spaces, and urban green planning
The urban green system
- land use aspects of an urban green system, the determination of areas: the green census, the relationship between census and management plan
- system representation aspects the urban classification in use, urban green atlas (introduction), system models
- concept of public green offering and management quality
- examples of green urban planning in Europe
- green urbanism sustainability
- quality assessment aspects of the urban green management system
Design of green in urban spaces
- construction of the green atlas: methodology and synoptic overview of urban green types
- preliminary project analyses: town planning, environmental, landscape
- Renaturalisation of urban greenery and analysis of project cases
Choice of plants for the green in the city
- the choice of plants, botanical criteria guide, soil density
- the arboreal plan of the city: criteria for choosing the type of tree/species
- the shrub plan of the city: criteria for choosing the type of shrub/species
- the herbaceous plan of the city: guiding criteria for choosing the type of perennial herbaceous or annual/species
- the interaction of water-air-roots-
paving-pollution- phytoallergy
The city's green infrastructureÂ
- The hanging green, the parietal green, the vertical green
- Rain garden, dry garden, wildflowers, green courtyards: the natural innovation
- Forest greenery for the city and the natural recovery of open spaces
- Architectural green, application fields, design solutions and materials
The Architectural Green Building Site
Job opportunities
The skills acquired with the specialisation in Green Urbanism can be spent in the realisation of green projects for public and private spaces in the city, streets, houses, offices, hotels, restaurants, public and commercial facilities. The urban green expert can exercise his profession as a freelancer or collaborate with green design studios by offering consultancy for renovation works or the ex-novo creation of gardens, parks and green spaces, becoming an expert in hanging green, wall green, vertical green, rain garden, dry garden, wildflowers, etc.
Course Phases
Preparatory phase: texts + online platform
Online classroom phase
Project Work phase: development of a project following the outline provided by the lecturer
Facilitations
Possibility of financing the registration fee
Reworking and updating the CV for dissemination to companies in the sector at the end of the national training course.
Issued certificates
- Certificate of attendance online classroom phase
- Project Work Certificate
The professional figure
The urban green designer is an expert in the creation, management and enhancement of green spaces in cities. His mission is to design sustainable and functional green environments that not only make cities more beautiful and liveable, but also improve citizens' well-being, foster biodiversity and promote environmental sustainability.
Our Partners
Vegetable Atelier
Gri.Ma. - Grima Green
Botanical Atelier
VENICEGREEN
Course dates:
Online, dal 18 Aprile al 8 Settembre 2026
Maximum number of participants: 25
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The teachers of the course
Stefano Mengoli