The first meeting of the second training year of the Forestami Academy, the initiative created by Forestami in partnership with the Prada Group to promote and disseminate the scientific bases, principles and values of urban forestry, took place on May 10th, 2024, at the Salone D’Onore of the Milan Triennale.
The second edition – entitled “Urban forestry: well-being and health” – is structured in three sessions coordinated by Maria Chiara Pastore, lecturer at the Politecnico of Milan and scientific director of Forestami, and sees the participation of some of the most important national and international experts in the field of green spaces and forestry, to focus on the correlation between nature and physical and mental health.
Around 100 citizens of different ages and backgrounds took part in the training day entitled “Well-being in our cities”.
The speakers were Matilda van den Bosch, senior researcher at the Biocities Facility of the European Forest Institute and scientist at the Institute for Global Health in Barcelona (Spain), a pioneer in the field of nature and public health research and a leader in the field of interactions between urban green spaces and people; and Ilaria Doimo, researcher at ETIFOR, a spin-off of the University of Padua, which provides consultancy services to public and private organisations to help them improve the services and products of nature.
The two experts agree on the importance of knowing and studying the possibilities and scales of intervention to lay the foundations for the cities of the future, which must be greener and healthier for everyone.
The second meeting of the 2024 training course will take place on 21st June at the Triennale Milano, while the third meeting will be an outdoor lesson on “Forest Bathing” in October.