Chiara Geroldi is an architect and researcher, currently Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. She holds a PhD in Environmental and Territorial Safety and Control (2015) jointly awarded by the Politecnico di Milano, Torino, and Bari (Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato). Her doctoral research was developed in part during a research period (AY 2012-13) at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was a ‘special student’ (visiting).
Alongside her research, she teaches landscape architecture in design studios at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research revolves around the landscape design of discarded earthy fill, the landscape of energy (mining, electricity, and oil landscapes), and the regeneration of brownfields. She wrote the book Moved Earth: Designing Landscapes with Discarded Fill (Routledge, 2026). She recently co-edited two books on the topic of desealing, Ecologies of Desealing (Mimesis, 2025) and Open Ground (Mimesis International, 2025).
We talk to Chiara Geroldi about how landscape architecture can engage with the growing landscapes of discarded soil, the importance of making material processes legible, and how design can approach material surplus for shaping post-industrial and infrastructural topographies.
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