MARGHERITA GALANTE
I am an innovative designer with six years’ experience in landscape design, landscape planning, projects management, environmental education and community garden delivering thanks to my work in different landscape architecture firms and in Permaculture Barcelona association. I had worked in partnership with private and public stakeholders, wildlife trust and local community association.
In my professional environment I have propensity in visual and oral communication to involved people. Indeed I like hand drawing, watercolour and models. I use these techniques to delivered hight standard quality design and during participate design process, informative meetings and children workshops.
I am proactive, organised and I have an efficient approach to completing work within tight deadlines. I have the ability to build effective relationships with colleagues and clients. I am always showing natural leadership in teamwork and also performance initiative and creativity in design quality.
Values and attitude
I love gardening, I was involved in two community garden projects and actually I have a vegetable roof garden. That’s why I also knew personally the benefits of that practice. Nevertheless I strongly believe that city gardening and green space in general have benefits on improving social connectivity’s in neighbourhood. Also community gardens have a relevant role in environmental education for future urban generation, they are the local start point for a large-scale resilience in food security and human welfare.
Interest in Landscape and Architecture firms, Landscape enterprises, Renewable energy groups, Environmental consulting, National trusts and NGOs.
Landscape Architecture Professional body UK
Education
2016 Professional Certification in Heritage Interpretation and Environmental Education (520 h), Fundació Pere Tarrés
2009-2012 Master Degree in Landscape Architecture at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain- Exchange student BA HONS in Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2005-2009 Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Planning and Design at the Università Roma La Sapienza, Italy- BA2 spent in the Ecole d’Arhitecture et Paysage de Lille, France
Trainee
2017 Land Stewardship – Xarxa Custòdia del Territorio – Universitat de Vic (30hs)
2016 Renewable Energy and Landscape Quality – LE NOTRE Insitute (30hs)
Landscape Education for Democracy – Erasmus+ LE NOTRE Insitute (5 ECTS)
2015 Photorelatogramas. Visual thinking technic (6hs)
2014 Permaculture garden design basic course (20hs)
GIS and Miramon (120hs)
2013 Practical trainee in biocostruction technics:
– solar radiant floor, drying toilet, cob constructions (80hs)
– dry walls, slope fix systems, canes structures (120hs)
2012 Horticulture and gardening maintenance basic course (42hs)
Language skills
English, French, Spanish: proficiency level
Catalan: proficiency level (C1)
Italian (mother language)
Informatics skills
AutoCad 2014 2D, Adobe CS6 Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Microsoft Office: advanced level
Arcview GIS, Qgis, GMAO Rosmiman, Google Earth, WordPress, Sketch up, Googleforms, Slack: intermediate level
Rhinoceros, Vectorworks, Autocad 20143D, Project Management: basic level
Mac and Windows user
Craftwork skills
Hand drawing and Watercolours
Landscape architecture models
2D Metal cut
Glass works (cast glass, simple stained glass, slumping and fusing glass)
