Some schools are investing a lot in the outdoor learning experience, in contact with nature. The multiplication of
open-air educational offerings, complementary to school, indicate a growing awareness of the importance of the natural landscape not only as a place of well-being but also as an educational space, in which the body itself
becomes a means of learning as a living, sensory body that enriches and completes the classroom teaching. By comparing some initiatives of the north Adriatic coastal area with more radical northern European experiences, we want to outline new design possibilities, in which education to ecology through the experience of doing, talking and living in nature, poses new design questions not so explored in our territories
