– 10.09.2025, Città in Scena MAXXI Rome
Jeannette Sordi joins the Think Tank of Roma Consolari, a visionary project for the city of Rome promoted by IN/Arch and curated by Pino Pasquali, Mose Ricci, and Susanna Tradati. The think tank includes, among others, urbanist Maurizio Carta, City of Palermo, landscape architect João Nunes, School of Architecture of Mendrisio, Chiara Rizzi, Università della Basilicata, Salvador Rueda, Direttore della Fundación Ecología Urbana y Territorial di Barcellona, Jeannette Sordi, New York Institute of Technology, Michel Vayssie, general director of Bordeaux Metropole. The vision for the project will be presented at MAXXI museum in Rome on October 09, 2025. More information here.
– 05.09.2025, United Nations 2025 STI Forum
The 2025 United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation hosted a series of events including the session on “Envisioning Future HealthScapes: Rethinking Methodologies of Design Practices Toward Regenerative Environments” organized by NYIT and the Consulate of Denmark. Picture of the Action in Place workshop organized by Marcella del Signore and Evan Shieh with Crystal Esky, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Nicholas Lynch, Anton Rozhkov, Jeffrey Raven, Hyon Woo Scott Chung, Jeannette Sordi.
– 02.20.2025, Montevideo
The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Development in Uruguay with the Inter-American Development Bank presented the actions and development achieved during the first years of the Road Map to enhance the development of wood technologies for social architecture in Uruguay. Introductions by Raul Lozano Bonnet, Minister of Housing and Territorial Development, Tabaré Hackenbruch, Subsecretary of Housing and Territorial Development, Felipe Vera, Inter-american Development Bank. Presentations by Marcia Croci, Coordinator of Road Map, Lilian Portillo, and Jeannette Sordi, New York Institute of Technology.
– 12.05.2024, IDB, Washington DC
Editors Diego Arcia, Solly Angel and Jeannette Sordi present their forthcoming book Accommodating Growth in Latin American and Caribbean Cities in Washington DC. The book is the result of an initiative led by the Interamerican Development Bank with New York University and the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements. More about the project and book here.
– 10.18.2024, New York City Architecture Biennale
The NYC 2024 Architecture Biennale “Architectural Intersections” explored cross-sectoral relationships and addressing the critical trends shaping our built environment. The roundtable on Politics and Identity was moderated by Eduardo Quintero with Nicholas Hamilton, Jeannette Sordi, Andrés Hincapié, and Lance Jay Brown.
– 07.16.2024, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
The III Summit on Future Urbanism at IAAC, organized by Willy Muller and Ariadna Cantis will take place in Barcelona on July 15-18. Mathilde Marengo, Jeannette Sordi, Ana Maria Duran Calisto, Felipe Vera, and Alejandro Hayek will participate in the roundtable on vulnerable communities.
– 04.17.2024, Sapienza Università di Roma
Beyond Urbanism- From Land Use to Landscape
A lecture on landscape as a medium for urban planning and regeneration hosted by Mosè Ricci, Urban Regeneration Studio, ARU Sapienza University of Rome.
– 04.12.2024, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez
Ciudad Juarez El Paisaje del Rio Bravo / The Landscape of Rio Grande, Workshop and lectures
Jeannette Sordi is invited to give a keynote speech at Autonomous University in Juarez, Mexico on April 12, 2024. The conference is organized by UACJ within the international workshop and research collaboration landscapes of Rio Bravo/Rio Grande. She will present her research on landscape urbanism and her work on ecological design and climate adaption for vulnerable cities developed. More about the project here.
– 12.13.2023, AUDITORIUM MUSICA PER ROMA | MAXXI | CASA DEL CINEMA
Rome Urban Regeneration Festival
+ PROGETTI
LAC (Jeannette Sordi) | CPH (Pino Scaglione) | GRAVALOSDIMONTE (Patrizia Di Monte) | FIELDOPERATIONS (James Corner) | PROAP (Joao Nunes) | BCN (Carles Llop, Josep Bohigas) | TOPOTEK1 (Dan Budik). AUDITORIUM MUSICA PER ROMA | MAXXI | CASA DEL CINEMA 2023 DECEMBER 13-14-15-17. Forthcoming!
– 10.07.2023, UNESCO Chair Benecon University Consortium
Dwelling on Space: representation and safeguarding of tangible and intangible Heritage, Symposium
The international symposium is organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage by the 32nd session of the UNESCO General Conference, Benecon and Unesco Chair in Naples. Dedicated to this important anniversary, the event provides a unique opportunity to explore the intangible cultural heritage challenges and opportunities around the world. Jeannette Sordi will present the results and process of the Microscape Micro Tactical Gardens competition organized to activate the UNESCO Industrial Landscape Heritage Site Fray Bentos, in Uruguay. Read more about the project here.
– 08.2023, Montevideo
The results of the low-rise and mid-rise Madera competition are announced in Montevideo, Uruguay
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning of Uruguay (MVOT), the National Housing Agency (ANV), and Mevir have presented the results of the first two ‘Madera: Innovation for Social Architecture’ competitions, organized with the support of the Inter-american Development Bank. Read more about the Madera competition and the winning proposals here.
– 04.19.2023
Earth day 2023: promoting the use of wood as a sustainable construction material in Uruguay
Learn about the Madera: Innovation for Social Architecture competition on the IaDB blog Ciudades Sostenibles. The competition represents an opportunity to develop and build demonstration projects that prioritize wood as the main construction material in Uruguay. The main objective of the competition is to incorporate technological and design innovation, energy efficiency and sustainability inputs in social interest architecture. It is also intended that the success of this competition will serve in the long term to encourage the production of housing built in wood, with the consequent positive impact on the carbon footprint, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation of climate change. Read more.
– 04.04.2023 New York Institute of Technology, New York
Symposium: Metropolis as Heritage and Environmental Health
Through a series of conversations, the symposium explored metropolitan heritage and sustainable urban development. Acknowledging the importance of cultural resistance in response to the challenges posed by cultural sterility in city planning, the event provided an opportunity to introduce the Heritopolis Society and engage in proactive discussions. Heritopolis is a UN-Habitat UNI MetroHub Consortium on Heritage and Metropolis. Jeannette Sordi will present case studies in Latin America and the Caribbean on green infrastructure and public space as media for risk mitigation and climate adaptation.
– 03.23.2023 Cornell University, Ithaca
Landscape Urbanism: a framework for equitable adaptation?
The environmental crisis accentuates inequality. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the most vulnerable populations often reside in informal, precarious, or popular settlements, which are more exposed to climate events and generally have less access to infrastructure and ecosystem services. In recent years, designers and urbanists have offered important insights into rethinking informal settlements and developing strategies to improve their inhabitants’ quality of life, safety, and opportunities. Today, it is essential to incorporate climate criteria into urban interventions effectively. Jeannette Sordi’s presentation will focus on the potential of landscape design and public space as media to restore and improve, adapt and connect, and mitigate and anticipate the transformation of the most vulnerable settlements in the Americas. Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Cornell University.
– 12.16.2022 Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato
Seeds. International Symposium of Landscape Urbanism.
Seeds Symposium brings together three round tables with Italian and international speakers active today in the field of Landscape Urbanism. The articulation of the program is foreseen in online and in presence modality, and alternates in the two main sections of the symposium (16-17 December afternoon), a workshop open to students and professionals as a moment of reflection and participation in the theme (17 December morning). Jeannette Sordi will present her work on the theory of landscape urbanism as applied in Latin America and the Caribbeans.
– 11.09.2022 Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona.
Beyond Urbanism. Strategies for the Vulnerable City in the Climate Crisis.
Más allá del urbanismo: Estrategias para la ciudad vulnerable en la crisis climática is a keynote lecture by Jeannette Sordi followed by a dialogue with Francisco Paillie Pérez within the Master of Future Cities lecture series “Redes.”
– 10.19.2022 C40 World Mayors Summit 2022, Buenos Aires.
Ecological Design. Strategies for the Vulnerable Cities Exhibition
The exhibition explores the potential of using landscape and nature as ecological to enhance the urban experience and resilient in the vulnerable city. Curated by: Felipe Vera, Jeanette Sordi, Soledad Patiño, Stefano Romagnoli, Santiago Aurelio Mota, Milagros Barchi, Maria Camila Uribe. Text and images: Ecological Design: Strategies for the vulnerable city II (IDB, 2022, Felipe Vera, Jennifer Doherty-Bigara, Soledad Patiño, Jeannette Sordi). 2022 Mayors Summit of the Network of Cities of the Inter-american Development Bank, C40 Buenos Aires. Preview here.
– 02.28.2022 Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
Creating inclusive, safe, and healthy cities seminar
Jeannette Sordi will give a seminar on Strategies for the Vulnerable City in the Climate Crisis based on the IaDB Ecological Design book series within the professional certificate and seminar “Creating inclusive, safe, and healthy cities” organized by the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) in Colombia and Latin America.
– 09.30.2021 Cooper Union, New York
Landcycles: on Landscape, Resources, and Infrastructure.
Cooper Union Fall 2021 Student Lecture Series | Jeannette Sordi — Landcycles: on Landscape, Resources, and Infrastructure. The lecture will be followed by a public discussion moderated by Frederick Rapp. Image J. Sordi, A. Tsamis, The recombinant city-camp, 2019.
Recent work:
JEANNETTE SORDI 