1) EDUCATION
- Istituto Universitario di Archiettura, Venezia: Laureate degree in Architecture (November, 1991)
- Non academic position: architect (May 1992).


2) ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2002-present
Chief of the research board of the INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES at University of Ferrara
2001-present
Member of the Faculty board of the PhD program in Economics, curriculum “Urban and Regional development”, University of Ferrara,
2000-present
Adjunct professor of Urban and Regional Planning
1993-2000
Instructor, International Training Programs (Faculty of Architecture, University of Ferrara)

Courses and Modules

Regional Planning and Local Development

Landscape assessment and community participation

Social Inclusion in Urban and Regional Development

City and Regional Theory



3) SPECIAL EXECUTIVE EDUCATION SEMINARS

November 26, 2008 (Ferrara)
Department of Architecture: Series of Seminars by the title “Paesaggi d’Europa-Landscapes of Europe” on landscape planning, urban and regional planning, economic development (scientific direction and speaker). Discussant: Josep Maria Llop, University of Lleida, UNESCO Chair “Intermediate cities – Urbanisation and Development”

November 6, 2008 (Ferrara)
Faculty of Architecture, Master in Conservation, Management and Evaluation of Industrial Heritage, Erasmus Mundus Program: “Cultural Landscapes: theories, planning, management” (speech)

June 14, 2008 (Avio)
Conference “L’agricoltura e il turismo rurale e culturale in aree di emergente interesse strategico”
Speech: “I territori del paesaggio: scenari e strategie nel progetto territoriale”

May 14, 2008 (Ferrara)
Faculty of Economics, EcoPolis Master in Politiche ambientali e territoriali per la sostenibilità e lo sviluppo locale
Lezione: “La questione del paesaggio tra retoriche e operatività”

April 19, 2008 (Ferrara)
Città Territorio Festival: contribution to the Po Delta River Forum (speaker)

April 20, 2008 (Ferrara)
Città Territorio Festival: contribution to the Landscape Policies Forum (speaker)

Maggio 15, 2007 (Cambridge, MA)
Seminario


February 9, 2007 (Ferrara )
Department of Architecture: Series of Seminars by the title “Paesaggi d’Europa-Landscapes of Europe” on landscape planning, urban and regional planning, economic development (scientific direction and speaker). Discussant: Joan Nogué, University of Girona, director of the Observatorio del Paisaje de Cataluña

December 5, 2006
Colloquium by the title “[…] delle risorse immateriali” (“[…] about immaterial resources ”). Discussants: Matteo Marini, professor of Theory of the development, University of Calabria; Carlos Llop i Torné, professor of Urban planning and design, Politechnical University of Cataluna (scientific direction)

September 4-9, 2006 (Rubiera, Reggio Emilia – Italy)
Department for Culture and Landscape, Reggio Emilia Province (ITALY), INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES (CISPC/ICCLS) at University of Ferrara: 3rd Edition of the International Summer School in Cultural Landscape Studies on “Learning from Landscape: the role of the education in the implementation of European Landscape Convention” (co-director of the program involving French, Spanish and Italian PHD students and their tutors)

Spring term 2006
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES (CISPC/ICCLS) at University of Ferrara and ARIOSTEA Library (Ferrara): Series of Seminars by the title “Territorio e dintorni” (“Around territorial issues”) on urban planning, landscape and economic development (scientific direction and speaker)

July 25-31, 2005 (Tortosa, Catalunia, Spain)
Universitat d’Estui de les Terres de l’Ebre, Departement d’Urbanística i Ordenació del territori (Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya), Department de Geografia (Universitat de Lleida, Spain), INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES (CISPC/ICCLS) (University of Ferrara): 2nd Edition of the International Summer School in Cultural Landscape Studies on “Les Terres de L’Ebre as landscape heritage. Regional transformation and landscape production” (co-director of the program involving French, Spanish and Italian PHD students and their tutors)

June 18-27, 2004 (Ferrara, Italy)
Departement d’Urbanística i Ordenació del territori (Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya), Master in Cultural Heritage Studies (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany) INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES (CISPC/ICCLS) (University of Ferrara): 2nd Edition of the International Summer School in Cultural Landscape Studies on “ Regional transformation and landscape production: the case of Ferrara area World heritage Site” (co-director of the program involving French, Spanish and Italian PHD students and their tutors)

January 1998-December 2003
Faculty of Architecture (University of Ferrara), RER – INFORUM: Urban Regeneration for Metropolitan Area of Emilia-Romagna Regional Agency, executive course on strategic planning and local development attended by representatives central and local agencies, elected councils, professionals associations, citizens groups (director of the program and speaker);

March 27, 2001 (Ferrara)
Faculty of Architecture (University of Ferrara): International Round Table on “Preservation and management of the Ferrara landscape: issues and opportunities”, program and organization chair;

October 6–8, 2000 Apt (France),
Departement d’Urbanística i Ordenació del territori (Univeristat Politècnica de Catalunya), Faculty of Architecture (University of Ferrara), Eurocitae: international meeting for the cooperation among European small cities (Apt, Provence–France; La Seu d’Urgell, Catalunia–Spain; Massa Marittima, Tuscany–Italy): seminar attended by representatives from local agencies, elected councils, citizens groups, and academics (director of the program and speaker);

March 2000 (Curitiba, Paranà, Brazil)
Faculty of Architecture (University of Ferrara), Curso de Arquitectura (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Paranà–Curitiba), International Urban Design Workshop co-director of the exchange master degree students training program;

December 1998 (Ferrara, Italy)
Faculty of Architecture (University of Ferrara), “Managing the complexity”, seminar on the new patterns of urbanization, and new system of local economy attended by representatives from central and local agencies, elected councils, professionals associations, citizens groups (director of the program and speaker);

September-October 1998 (Ferrara, Italy)
“Industrial production-Territory-City” Forum on: “Development scenarios and crisis factors in the Italian industrial cluster”: executive course on strategic planning and local development attended by representatives central and local agencies, elected councils, professionals associations, citizens groups (director of the program and speaker);

March-April 1997 (Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy)
“City-Culture-Territory” Forum on “Promoting small historical town heritage”: executive course on strategic planning and local development attended by representatives central and local agencies, elected councils, professionals associations, citizens groups from professionals (director of the program and speaker);

A.Y. 1993-A.Y. 1997
Faculty of Architecture (University of Ferrara), Department of City and Regional Planning (UC at Berkeley), Faculty of Architecture (University Waseda Tokyo): International Urban Design Workshop, co-director of the exchange graduate students training program.



4) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Po Delta River Regional Parc, Coast area Master Plan, 2004-2006 (Chief of the research team)

Municipality of Bologna, Master Plan of the Hill area, 2006 (Team member);

Ordenaciò del territori i desenvolupament local a les Valls d’Aneu (Comarca de Lleida, Catalunia, Spain) Master Plan of the Mountain area, 2005(Team member);

Ordenaciò del territori i desenvolupament local a les Vall d’Incles (Andorra) Master Plan of the Mountain area, 2005 (Team member);

Municipalities of Correggio, San Martino in Rio, Rio Saliceto (Reggio Emilia),
Urban Design Associated Plan (Team member), 1998-2002

Comunità Montana “Colline Metallifere” (Massa Marittima, Grosseto), Economic and Urban Design Master Plan (Univ. of Ferrara Faculty of Economy and C.U.R. consultant), 1997;

Municipalities of Sassuolo & Fiorano Modenese (Modena), Urban Design Associated Plan (C.U.R. consultant), 1997-2001;

Municipality of Lucca, Urban Design Plan (Team member), Analysis and Master plan, 1997-’98;

Municipality of Creavalcore (Bologna), Urban Design Plan (Team member),
1997-2001;
Municipality of Fermo (Ascoli Piceno), Urban Design Plan (Team member), Analisys and Master plan, 1996;

Municipality of Massa Marittima (Grosseto), Urban Design Plan (C.U.R. consultant), 1996-2001;

Municipality of Comacchio (Ferrara), Urban Design Plan (C.U.R., consultant), Analisy and Master Plan, 1995-’96;

Municipality of Creavalcore (Bologna), Urban Design Plan for the Historical Center (Team member), 1994-’96;

Municipality of Vicenza, Urban Design Plan for the Historical Center (Team member), Analisys, 1992-’93;



5) FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Summer 2008
Harvard University, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholar

Spring term 2007
Harvard University, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholar Fellowship

Spring term 2005
University of Ferrara, Sabbatical Award

A.Y. 2001-2002
University of Ferrara, Innovating Teaching Award

September-October 2000
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge (Ma), Research Fellowship in Planning and Development

September-October 1999
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge (Ma), Research Fellowship in Planning and Development

Spring term 1998
University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning, Visiting Scholar.

October 1994
University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning, Visiting Scholar.



6) PUBLICATIONS
Llop C., Leder F., Fabregat E. (eds.), Visions del paisatge de les terres de l'Ebre, Biblioteca la transformació d'un territori, n. 5, Onada edicions, Benicarló, 2008.
Franz G., Leder F., La riqualificazione delle periferie residenziali. Scenari ed elementi per una futura politica di intervento in Emilia Romagna, Alinea Editrice, Firenze, 2003.
F. Leder, Riflessioni preliminari e “buone pratiche”. Com’è stata promossa la L. 19/98 sulla riqualificazione urbana, “Urbanistica”, 115, Marzo 2001
Leder F., Introduzione a, “La città di domani. Strategie, programmi, progetti di riqualificazione urbana. Forum 2000”, Franz G. Ed., Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Bologna, 24-25 gennaio 2000, Regione Emilia-Romagna: Bologna, 2000;
F. Leder, Italy in Transition: New Approaches to Planning, “LandLines”, 2, March 2000;
F. Leder (ed.), International Urban Design Workshop. Experiences and design projects (1993-1997), Marsilio Editore, Venezia 1999;
F. Leder, “Il corpo va in città”: un esperimento in vitro di porogettazione partecipata e di volontariato di quartiere”, in G.Franz (a cura), Casa e lavoro: modelli innovativi per la riforma dello stato sociale italiano, Maggioli Editore, Rimini, 1998, pp. 137-146;
F. Leder, “Il Barco è un parco”, in I. Pizzetti (a cura), L’addizione verde: leggere e progettare il paesaggio per il parco urbano di Ferrara, Corbo Editore, Ferrara 1997;
F. Leder, “Tra le due guerre: trasformazioni urbane e crisi economica negli anni del fascismo”, in R. Camurri (a cura), Le Aziende Industriali Municipali di Vicenza. Governo della città e nascita del servizio pubblico 1906-1996, Marsilio Editore, Venezia, 1996, pp. 93-132;
F. Leder, “Le delizie estensi: presenza e latenza nel sistema territoriale. Il caso del Belriguardo”, in “Paesaggio Urbano”, 1/1996, pp. 28-32;
F. Leder, U. Saccardo, Vicenza. Ottocento-Novecento: piani, progetti e modificazioni, Ergon, Vicenza, 1996.


7) SEMINAR AND CONFERENCES PAPER (2008-1996)
April 2008 (20): Il paesaggio siamo noi, paper presented at Città Territorio Festival (Ferrara)
November 2007 (22-23-24): Land VS Water: Landscape as an “open conflict”, paper presented together with Giulio Verdini at the 5th International Congress for Spatial Planning (Malaga, Spain)
May 2007 (15): Landscape Issues in European Regional Planning: The Rise of a Third Way?, paper presented at Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Lunch Seminars, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University
July 2006 (1-2): Landscape as measure, paper presented at the 1st Eugenio Turri Colloquium, Cavaion Veronese (Verona, Italy)
March 2006 (23): Territory and uses, paper presented at the seminar Around territorial issues, University of Ferrara
October 2005: The hospitality architecture in Ferrara district, paper presented at the conference The culture of hospitality in Ferrara district. To an integrated process of the tourism training activities, University of Ferrara
February (2) 2005: How improve a XXI Culture Agenda, paper presented at the international Seminar promoted by INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES (CISPC/ICCLS) (University of Ferrara), Ferrara
January 2004 (24-25): Local systems and cultural resources. Characters of territorial marketing project in the recent European experiences. The case of Literature Festival in Mantova, paper presented at the international conference From Event Places to Cultural Landscapes. Ephemeral and built resources toward local and regional development, International Laboratory on Cultural Landscapes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
January 2004 (22): Urban regeneration: The case of Emilia-Romagna experience, paper presented at the seminar Reciclar la Ciutat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Faculty of Architecture, San Cugat del Valles
November 2003 (7-8), The reason of Water: geo-policy and sustainable development, paper presented at the international seminar promoted by INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES STUDIES (CISPC/ICCLS) (University of Ferrara), Ferrara
July 2002: From historical landscape to cultural landscapes: remainings, changes, new economic and social values. Selected Italian case studies, presented at Seminario Internacional de Restauro: Paisagem, Cidade, e Arquitectura Historica. O patrimonio como recurso estrategico para um nuovo modelo de desenvolvimento. Trinta anos do patrimonio Mundial da UNESCO, Universidade Catolica do Paranà, Curitiba 15-17 Julio 2002
March 2002 (19): The landscape rights, presented at specializing course Analysis, Evaluation, Design of Landscape University of Calabria
March 2002: Cultural Landscapes: Evaluation and restauration, paper presented at the conference Building landscape through landscape, Siena, Provincial Governament
November 2001: Environmental problems and policies in Italy. The principles of sustainable development. The case study of the European Landscape Convention, lecture held at the International Master in Design of sustainable urban habitat (MAPAUS), University of Ferrara
March 2001: Environmental problems and policies in Italy. The principles of sustainable development. The case study of the European Landscape Convention, lecture held at the International Master in Design of sustainable urban habitat (MAPAUS), University of Ferrara
Jannuary 2001: The Mining Ecomuseum in Colline Metallifere area: a project in the direction of the sustainable development, paper presented at the international colloquium The landscape after the dark, Massa Marittima, 26-28
May 2000 (18-19): Variation on the Them of Urban Quality, paper presented at the colloquium Around the Urban Quality, University of Ferrara
April 1999: Molteplicity and co-exiting of urban plans: the case of Vicenza, module of the Tele_SIT_RaiEducational TVlearning
September 1999: Italy in Transition: New Approaches to Urban Open Spaces, lecture held at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy


8) BOOKS/PAPERS FORECOMING
Leder F. (ed.), Paesaggi in piano. Contributi al progetto per un territorio rurale sostenibile, Compositori Editore, Bologna (spring 2009)



9) RESEARCH PROJECT
2008-current: Inventare il futuro: l’opera di Danilo Dolci negli anni della grande trasformazione (1952-1970), Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Cenetr at Boston University -The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University

2007-current: The relevance of landscape issues in regional development policies. The interpretation of European and North American dimension in a compared study, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University

2006-2007: STRATHER Strategies for heritage, University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research unit “Landscape protection and rural development”

2005: Memory Heritage Care, Consorzio di Bonifica 2° Circondario (Ferrara)-University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research board

2005-current: Indicators for the protection and management of rural landscapes of Mediterranean basin: a compared studies between Italian and Spanish experience
University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research board

2005: The use of GIS in the cultural landscapes transformations analysis: a review
University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research board

2004-current: Local systems and cultural resources: the aims of place promotion projects in the European experience, University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research board

2003-current: Territorial plans and landscape policies: experiences of territorial management in the sprowl era, University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research board

2003-current: Water: territorial changes and landscapes productions/Acqua: trasformazioni territoriali e produzione di paesaggi, University of Ferrara, International Centre for Cultural Landscapes Studies, chief of the research board


10) FIELDS OF INTERST:
- The relevance of landscape issues in spatial planning and local development
- The relevance of the new regionalism approach to manage metropolitan areas problems;
- The role of cultural heritage in sustainable spatial planning;
- Local development issues.