Monica Botta is a landscape architect. Her studio specialises in projects in which nature is a means of achieving well-being in both the social and public spheres. She combines her profession with teaching activities in various Italian institutes and faculties. She lectures at the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara, at the Milan Polytechnic, and at the Master's Degree Course in "Planning, Programming and Design of Hospital and Social-Health Systems". She is co-director of the Therapeutic Landscape Design professional course at Politecnico di Milano - Faculty of Architecture. She collaborates on research into the benefits of green areas, with the Medical Humanities Centre of the Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria. Author of articles in specialist magazines, she has written "Healing garden. A therapeutic garden for the elderly, disabled, children', 2012 and 'Dear garden, take care of me. Delicate stories of well-being in nature', 2018.