Increasingly in the international debate on the fight against climate change, green environments are recognised as valuable and effective resources capable of naturally lowering air temperature and helping to improve its quality. Gardens are therefore recognised as having the capacity to repair, i.e. protect and defend against harmful elements and become curative factors as well as a source of refreshment and tranquillity.
Designing and creating the gardens of tomorrow means imagining the future of mankind and cities, and it is with this idea in mind that the Radicepura Garden Festival is launching a call for ideas 2021, inviting students, landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, botanists, nursery gardeners, urban planners, engineers, artists, curators and all those who have the skills to design and create a garden, to participate in the third edition of the festival that will take place in Giarre from April to October 2021, focusing on the theme of “GARDENS OF THE FUTURE”.

What does the future have in store for us? What role will be assigned to plants and in particular ornamental plants? What will gardens be like? Although the answers to these questions can be profoundly different, they must deal with the growing ecological sensitivity of mankind. The latter, in fact is increasingly becoming the key element of the often problematic relationship between the actions of humans and Nature. The conscious need for sustainable development in economic, environmental and social terms, is the fundamental paradigm behind the Millennium Development Goals of Agenda 2030.