Andrea Balestrini is a landscape architect who studied at the Politecnico di Milano and at the University of Stuttgart. During his studies, he delved into the discipline of landscape planning with a focus on the topics of green infrastructures and sustainable urban drainage systems both in the context of European metropolitan areas and in megacities such as Seoul, Cairo and Lima. In the Peruvian capital, he collaborated with SERPAR (Lima’s Parks Service) and developed his thesis in cooperation with universities and local NGOs.
His professional background includes experiences in the academic field at the University of Stuttgart (Department of Landscape Planning and Ecology, and Department of Urban Planning) and in private firms both in Germany and Italy.
Andrea has been working since 2014 in the LAND Group and is currently Director of Research at LAND Research Lab, a landscape research and innovation think tank involved in major spatial transformation processes, climate adaptation studies and public space activation initiatives. In the course of his career he obtained a diploma in Arboriculture at the Scuola Agraria del Parco di Monza, attended the Terra Institute’s course in Sustainable Development Consulting and the Europa Business School’s Master in Europlanning.
Andrea is currently also Ecological consultant for the Municipality of Merano within the European project JustNature.
