When trying to answer the question of why people frequent places such as the Parco Ducale and which quality of time they spend there, we think about aspects which are not only historical and local. Facing the matter of the green spaces in town today means using a systematic approach to scientific, biologic and ecological derivations.

In this section you can find only a superficial list of functions and enquiries, which the students of the Liceo Biologico have faced in several years starting from the direct analysis of the place: these functions and enquiries are synthesized in order to provoke a suggestiveness which can lead to a simple reflection or to a wider research.

The functions

The Park has to be observed as a complex environment, burdened of different functions and meanings which are sometimes contradictory and which have to be composed  in order to search an internal balance and a balance with the town.

The green areas in general and the Parco Ducale in particular, exert a series of functions meaningful for their social value and for the human well-being (functions of social relationship, of physical and psychological well-being, aesthetical, historical and cultural functions). The research of this well-being is substantially the research of a balance between the components of a system of relationships, not only material, which we live inside and outside ourselves every day.

The aspects concerning the need of conservation of the Garden are not only related to social but also to environmental demands because the value of green spaces in the XXI century town has changed because of the balance, almost compromised now, between man and the environment.

The ecological functions of such a meaningful place can be grouped in: the regulation of the air and of the micro-climate, the biological regulation and the regulation of the soil and of the water regime.

The research

The experimental and documentary research is at the bottom of an interdisciplinary, didactic and formative approach directed to the systemic analysis of the environment and to the search for plausible balances between human beings and nature.

The gathering of data concerning the Parco Ducale has implied: the documental regest, the optical image, the analysis of manufacture , the analysis of the functions, the sociological  research and the phonometric survey. The data has been gathered over several years and concern the situation before (1995) and after (2003) the restoration of the Garden.