walkablegreen naples.community care of street greenery as pedestrian infrastructure
We train residents, volunteers and students to make the greenery along the pavements last: the greenery that decides whether a street can be walked.
When a flowerbed dries out every summer, the ones who lose out are those who cross the neighbourhood on foot every day.
observe, design, apply.
01
Observe
In mixed groups, participants survey the neighbourhood and build an open online map, where other residents can add their own proposals.
02
Design
In the workshop with agronomists and green designers: soil, species that live without irrigation, rainwater. The interventions are chosen together.
03
Apply
The interventions are carried out in the street, with the experts alongside, and measured again. A public event presents them to the neighbourhood.
- Where
- Between the Quartieri Spagnoli and Pizzofalcone. The streets are chosen with associations and residents.
- Certificates
- One per module: you can also take just one.
three ways to take part.
you already know the street.
You learn to look after the greenery outside your door and put on the map what you see every day.
Apply→for your volunteers.
Soil, species and water: what it takes for a plant to make it through its second summer.
Apply→a real neighbourhood to design for.
Architecture, planning, agronomy: survey and design with the people who live there, also as thesis work.
Apply→stay informed, or join the project.
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Trainers
Agronomists and green designers.
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Associations, universities and local bodies.
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For the plants, soil and tools that stay in the street.
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