Workshops, talks and food to discover the new green face of the museum square and kick off our summer at MAXXI with music.
Fifteen species of trees and shrubs and twenty species of herbaceous plants, typical of the Mediterranean area, now inhabit Piazza Alighiero Boetti. The mastermind behind these green initiatives is Bas Smets, a landscape architect renowned for an approach to landscape design that integrates aesthetics, climate and sustainability.
The project forms part of the Grande MAXXI masterplan, the museum’s expansion and regeneration plan designed by the LAN studio.
the programme:
6.00 pm > 7.30 pm
workshops for all ages
The stories of the plants: a storyteller leads a walk around the new flowerbeds to bring the neighbourhood’s new inhabitants – the plants – to life
The scents of the garden: horticultural therapists and agronomists invite you to touch and smell various elements of the garden to associate them with our moods
The wandering garden: a workshop led by horticultural therapists to create and make ‘seed bombs’ to throw in places to be restored to biodiversity
no booking required
7.30 pm > 8.30 pm
talk
The green project for MAXXI’s piazza
introduction
Maria Emanuela Bruni Fondazione MAXXI President
Fabio Tagliaferri Ales President
speakers
Alan Cappelli EU Climate Pact Ambassador
Margherita Guccione Grande MAXXI Scientific Director
Bas Smets landscape architect, designer of the green interventions in the Museum’s piazza
8.45 pm > 10 pm
opening of summer at MAXXI 2026
DJ set by Luce Clandestina b2b Marco Folco
With the support of Ales – Arte Lavoro e Servizi S.p.A. The event was organised in collaboration with Coldiretti, Fondazione Campagna Amica, Festival del Verde e del Paesaggio, and Il Giardino Malandrino Srl.
Workshops, talks and food to discover the new green face of the museum square and kick off our summer at MAXXI with music.
Fifteen species of trees and shrubs and twenty species of herbaceous plants, typical of the Mediterranean area, now inhabit Piazza Alighiero Boetti. The mastermind behind these green initiatives is Bas Smets, a landscape architect renowned for an approach to landscape design that integrates aesthetics, climate and sustainability.
The project forms part of the Grande MAXXI masterplan, the museum’s expansion and regeneration plan designed by the LAN studio.
the programme:
6.00 pm > 7.30 pm
workshops for all ages
The stories of the plants: a storyteller leads a walk around the new flowerbeds to bring the neighbourhood’s new inhabitants – the plants – to life
The scents of the garden: horticultural therapists and agronomists invite you to touch and smell various elements of the garden to associate them with our moods
The wandering garden: a workshop led by horticultural therapists to create and make ‘seed bombs’ to throw in places to be restored to biodiversity
no booking required
7.30 pm > 8.30 pm
talk
The green project for MAXXI’s piazza
introduction
Maria Emanuela Bruni Fondazione MAXXI President
Fabio Tagliaferri Ales President
speakers
Alan Cappelli EU Climate Pact Ambassador
Margherita Guccione Grande MAXXI Scientific Director
Bas Smets landscape architect, designer of the green interventions in the Museum’s piazza
8.45 pm > 10 pm
opening of summer at MAXXI 2026
DJ set by Luce Clandestina b2b Marco Folco
With the support of Ales – Arte Lavoro e Servizi S.p.A. The event was organised in collaboration with Coldiretti, Fondazione Campagna Amica, Festival del Verde e del Paesaggio, and Il Giardino Malandrino Srl.