Date
05/11/2026
Time
14:30 - 16:30
Location
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Auditorium, via Pascoli, 53 - Milano
Francesco Garofalo is a landscape architect, founder of Openfabric and Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He was formerly a Design Critic at Harvard GSD and London Metropolitan University.
Since founding Openfabric, Francesco has led numerous award-winning projects worldwide, including public spaces such as Into the Wild (The Hague), Gridgrounds (Amsterdam), Into the Forest (Mantua) and the 24-hectare Reggia di Rivalta Park (Reggio Emilia).
He has also contributed to large-scale research projects with significant spatial impact, such as Migrating Mediterranean, A20 Ring Road and Urban Policies vs Pandemic.
He frequently lectures and teaches internationally at institutions including Cornell AAP (New York), MIT (Cambridge, MA), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), the University of Hong Kong and IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia).
Speaker: Arch. Francesco Garofalo, Openfabric
Discussants: Andrea Bortolotti, Antonio De Carvalho, Israa Mahmoud
Coordinator: Israa Mahmoud
Contacts: israa.mahmoud@polimi.it