Elisabetta Bianchessi is a licensed architect trained at Faculdade de Arquitectura Lisboa – Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid – Politecnico di Milano (with honneurs) She was awarded with a PhD in Landscape Design at Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona – Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (with honneurs) She has been teaching Landscape Design at Politecnico di Milano and Accademia Belle Arti Brescia (2003-2013), and She is Ideator and Founder of the Paesaggi Straordinari – Master in Landscape Design and Public Art, at Politecnico di Milano and NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti Milano (2007-2013). Since 2013, She is Scientific Director of Summer School – Bergamo Landscape and Garden Institute and Visiting Professor at the Master in World Natural Heritage Management Unesco – STEP scuola del paesaggio e del territorio Trento. In 2008 she ideated and founded T12-Lab Action-Research Agency for Social Design and Public Space. Ideator and President of Verdi Acque (since 2013), no profit association which mission is sustaining the living conditions of river habitats and their communities. She also serves as Honorary Fellow of Liveinslums ngo (since 2011), being scientific director of operations in their projects about sustainable agricultural habitats in urban megalopolis. She collaborates with the Landscape Study Center – Verbania Landscape Museum.