Between 17 and 21 November 2025, the 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place under the motto Natural Intelligence. Since its beginnings in 1999, the Biennial has become one of the most significant international platforms for landscape architecture — a space where practice, research, and education converge. We spoke with Marina Cervera, executive […]
The 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place from 17 to 21 November 2025, under the Natural Intelligence?! theme. This edition explores both natural and artificial intelligences shaping contemporary landscapes and will feature a mix of free sessions, a symposium and awards, and a keynote lecture by James Bridle. The Programme Features: Sessions […]
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will hold its 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture from 10 to 13 October at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The event is the largest annual gathering of landscape architecture professionals in the world. This year’s general session keynote will be delivered by Mitch Landrieu, […]
The 2025 Festival of Landscape Architecture, organised by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), will take place in Nipaluna / Hobart from 19 to 21 October 2025, on the unceded lands of the Palawa people. The theme for this year’s edition is “DARK”—an inquiry into landscape through absence, ambiguity, and non-linearity. Curated by Miriam […]
The IFLA World Congress is coming to Nantes, France, from 10–12 September 2025, bringing together leading voices in landscape architecture. With more than a thousand participants expected (professionals, researchers, businesses, etc.), this event will be a unique moment of sharing and networking. Recognized as the largest annual event for the profession, this Congress will bring […]
The 2025 ECLAS Conference, themed “agriCULTURAL Landscapes,” is set to convene from 6 to 10 September 2025 at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. This edition invites scholars and practitioners to reflect on the ecological, cultural, social, and economic dimensions of landscapes shaped by agriculture. Programme Includes, among others, a Keynote Lecture by Univ.-Prof. […]
The Belgian Association of Landscape Architects and IFLA Europe organise an essential conference that will gather 300+ landscape architects, urban thinkers and policymakers to explore how cities can be regenerated into sustainable, inclusive and beautiful places, fully aligned with New European Bauhaus values. The conference will be held in English and is taking place in Brussels at CIVA – Centre for landscape architecture, […]
Biennal Internacional De Paisatge Barcelona introduces 8 finalists for the Rosa Barba Prize 2025. The winner will be announced at the symposium, taking place in Barcelona, 17-21 November 2025, accompanied by a rich program. Among the Finalists, there are the following projects: – Urban Balcony by Kongjian Yu – Turenscape, – Waterscape Park by […]
The World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) and The Ukrainian Association of Green Infrastructure (UAGI) welcome interested experts and stakeholders to their webinar series for discussion, exchange of ideas and knowledge and developing initiatives for optimizing the integration of green infrastructure and nature based solutions in post conflict reconstruction. Two powerful talks by Dr. Kathleen Wolf […]
TU Berlin presents its new Chair ‘Entwerfen von Landschaften im Anthropozän/ Designing Landscapes in the Anthropocene’, or ÉLAN for short, headed by Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich since April 2025. The name says it all: Rather than seeing the Anthropocene as the antechamber to apocalypse, for the detrimental changes wrought by human activities on all things […]
IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) World is partnering with corporate member Lappset Group for a powerful session on Sustainable Inclusion in Public Areas & The Future of Sustainable Play Design. Date and time: 11 June, 2 pm (CET)Register here This webinar will explore how public spaces can be thoughtfully designed to promote both environmental […]
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and Australia is no exception. With population growth, diversity shifts, and evolving societal needs, the role of public spaces is becoming more crucial than ever before. GX Outdoors in conjunction with Place Score undertook comprehensive research involving a mix of direct engagement with industry professionals and decision-makers […]
Join IFLA APR Talk & Share virtually on 15 May, 6PM (GMT+8) as KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture) hosts a dynamic conversation on pushing boundaries in the landscape architecture industry. This session will highlight how artificial intelligence is transforming landscape planning and design, and introduce innovative green systems that bring nature closer to urban […]
This high level presentation provides an overview of Placemaking applied to urban regeneration projects. Placemaking is the holistic approach of multi-disciplinary collaboration, with and by the community and stakeholders, along an iterative process.Placemaking is more than public consultation as it enables the public to take control and ownership of an open-ended outcome.Placemaking is more than […]
A new chapter in landscape architecture has begun with the founding of The Landscape Association in Tbilisi, Georgia. This exciting initiative unites landscape architects, urban planners, and environmental experts from around the world to create sustainable, accessible, and inspiring outdoor spaces. The association’s first meeting took place on February 15th at the Radisson Hotel in […]
To celebrate the publication of Conservation and Multispecies Relations in Contemporary European Tourism Environments (Volume 49, Issue 7 Landscape Research) Landscape Research Group is hosting a special online Zoom event on Thursday 13th February at 1pm GMT. This issue builds on recent developments in landscape studies and multispecies research to explore how the human and […]
The 21st edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben auditorium) on 20 and 21 February 2025, 10 am-17.30 pm, and in live streaming on the YouTube Channel of the Fondazione Benetton. The programme will be preceded on February 14, 5 […]
Landscape Research Group (LRG) is a long-standing international and interdisciplinary community founded in England in 1967, dedicated to advancing landscape research. Landscape is a field of interest for many professionals, including geographers, archaeologists, ecologists, lawyers, urban planners, landscape architects and others, whose work can be reciprocally informed by sharing research and practices. LRG is a […]
Halloween evening in Brooklyn, New York. Outside, a menagerie of children milled the sidewalks in spooky costumes seeking offerings of candy. At the same time, a smaller coalition of diverse students, faculty, and researchers gathered inside Higgins Hall at Pratt Institute to engage in a tricky debate over public trailways, the return of indigenous lands, […]
The 4th Symposium of the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP), titled Landscape As Architecture, took place in Mendrisio, Switzerland, from November 13 to 15, 2024. Previous editions in the series explored themes of Climate Urbanism, Scale, and Density. Out of over 250 submissions, the curators, Jonathan Sergison, João Nunes, and João Gomes […]
The Landscape Institute (LI) is hosting its annual Jellicoe Lecture in London, focusing on the integration of landscape and nature-based solutions in housing development. Responding to the UK government’s emphasis on housing growth and planning reform, the lecture will underscore the critical role landscape plays in creating high-quality, sustainable living environments. Attendees, including professionals from […]
Rhys Williams is the program director for landscape architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Rhys visited the experimental garden festival in Switzerland, Lausanne Jardins. Here is his take on the context and a selection of exhibited projects.
You are invited to attend the Abundance Talks at the Columbia GSAPP in person or online on October 31st at 12 p.m. EST. The talk includes speakers Manu Karuka (Barnard) and Adrian Anagnost (Tulane) who will address how is nature portrayed as suitable for conquest? These two talks illustrate how the distribution of abundance—as a […]
The 2025 Colloquium by Network City and Landscape, NSL, titled “Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes,” will be held at ETH Zürich from February 26-28, 2025, under the invitation of Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard. The event aims to explore the integration of landscape design and maintenance in response to evolving environmental and social challenges. With […]
35th IFLA Europe Regional Conference, themed PLAN[E]TSCAPE, will be hosted in Budapest by the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. The conference will focus on the role of landscape architecture in tackling environmental challenges through innovative design and sustainable plant use. As a key gathering for European landscape professionals, the conference will explore the profession’s potential […]
The 1st Porto Urban Greening Biennial will address the current and future challenges of Urban Green Infrastructure installation and management – a key strategy to address the climate emergency and foster environmental justice, social cohesion, and integration. The theme of this first edition is Planting the Living City, which will be supported by the invited […]
The 13th edition of the Landscape Festival, titled Facing the Crisis, organized by Arketipos, will be held at Teatro Sociale in Bergamo, Italy, and will be accompanied by the international meeting.The opening will be followed by speakers, including Catherine Mosbach, who designed this year’s exhibition garden. Speakers include practitioners from all over the globe, from […]
Gary Hilderbrand has been teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design since 1990 and is currently the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. He is also the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a leading landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was established in the […]
Radicepura Garden Festival announces the Call for Ideas to participate in the fifth edition of the Biennale dedicated to garden design, which will have the topic Chaos (and) Order in the Garden from an idea of Antonio Perazzi, artistic director of the festival. The international call is open to students, landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, […]
We invite you to register for the ECLAS conference titled Regenerative Landscapes. Designing the Transition. Keynote speakers are Alexandre Chemetoff, Dr. Rachel Lilley, Nathan Barlow, Dr. Sandra Groll and Gilles Doignon. More information is available on the ECLAS Conference website. “ECLAS 2024 will discuss the capacity of landscape as an approach and a method for […]
This summer, throughout Switzerland, you can attend the curated observation of the ongoing phenomenon of glaciers melting. Art installations, performances and exhibitions, scattered about the Alpine landscape, are informed by this exclusive moment in climate history that will forever change our landscapes. The melting progresses with the proportion of the loss of albedo surface. Although […]
FOREST ENCOUNTERS: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays The European cooperation project FOREST ENCOUNTERS is looking for representations of different encounters with the forest from both human and non-human perspectives. The FOREST ENCOUNTERS project explores and proposes diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the following questions: What and how can we learn with and through […]
Cycling has become an essential component of landscape design as people looked for alternative modes of transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift highlighted cycling as a viable option, which offers various health benefits and promotes healthier lifestyles. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes numerous benefits of cycling, which includes improved public health and a […]
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has opened a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds will focus on sites associated with demonstrations and movements. “These multiple associations are waiting to be unlocked at almost every historic property or cultural landscape that has served […]
Open Landscape Academy invites you to join an online seminar from April 3 to June 2 on Democratic Landscape Transformation. The seminar focuses on building a prototype collaborative model that “engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape […]
Call for papers for the symposium LANDSCAPE AS ARCHITECTURE Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP)Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland 13th, 14th and 15th November 2024 Landscape architecture is a powerful tool for addressing issues that have generally been neglected in architectural research and practice until recently.Innovative methodological approaches inherent to the multidisciplinary […]
Felixx is organizing a handful of events, accompanying the New European Bauhaus Festival. Read more about their AGENDA apply for events and more. Want to know about the power of Nature-Based Solutions? Felixx invites you to a webinar performed by Eduardo Marin Salinas. “More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that number […]
The Cultural Landscape Foundation is organizing a conversation with Kongjian Yu, 2023 Oberlander Prize laureate, and Pieter Schengenga, director of H+N+S Landscape Architects, the Netherlands, moderated by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, University of Virginia. You can register for virtual participation on the 30th of April, from 10:00 – 11:15 AM ET. “Climate change is accelerating […]
IFLA GSP is a first step into integrating global landscape architecture academia. The program ties together 4 charettes associated with major LA events across 4 IFLA regions with the objective of research and development regarding the LA future leadership and a global network of LA education institutions. The LA events will take place during Autumn […]
Registrations for the Landscape Forum 2024, organised by LE:NOTRE Institute and ECLAS, are now open. Forum will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from June 24 – 28, 2024, hosted by the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU). The focus topic is The Landscape as the Container of the Bioeconomy, with working groups on water, forests, fibrescapes, […]
IFLA Europe organizes a 3rd online event ‘Talk with Prof Ása L. Aradóttir on Restoration of native woodlands and sustainable forestry, on the 22nd of March 2024 at 13h CET Registration is required in advance for this event by following this link. The guest in this third Talk is Prof Ása L. Aradóttir, Professor, Department […]
New European Bauhaus organizes a festival with workshops, lectures and fairs on 9-13 April in Brussels. You can join to watch the Festival online or attend Satellite events across Europe and beyond. Location: Brussels, Parc du Cinquantenaire and the Arts & History Museum, online, or attend a Satellite Event from Europe and beyond. During interactive […]
Mar 13, 2024, at 5 – 6:15pm CET Online Available Register Now “The threatened demolition of Mary Miss’ pioneering and influential site-specific installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site in the permanent collection of the Des Moines Art Center is the impetus for a 75-minute webinar about the significance and importance of land art by women artists. […]
Soundscapes The experience of silence and sound in the landscape International Landscape Study Days Thursday 22-Friday 23 February 2024, Treviso and online Friday 16 February 2024, from 5 pm, online preview The 20th edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben […]
The Harvard Graduate School of Design organized a two-day conference titled Forest Futures: Will the Forest Save Us All? It is open to the public and available via streaming. Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban […]
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) released Landslide 2023: 25 Years/25 Saved, a report and digital exhibition that features 25 landscapes and landscape groupings, representing 40 sites, that have been saved and protected for future generations due to TCLF’s advocacy, individually and in partnership with other organizations. In recognition of TCLF’s 25th anniversary this year, the annual thematic Landslide focuses on advocacy and public engagement success stories rather than on threatened landscapes and landscape features and looks forward to new opportunities, challenges, and possibilities as TCLF broadens its lens, expands its research, and leverages the public’s expanded interest in and understanding of cultural landscapes.
You are invited to Berlin, Germany, to take part in the exhibition and symposium that was, among others, initiated also by LILA 2023 Honour Award winner Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich. From the event material: We introduce AGGLOmeration as a design activity in urbanism, architecture and landscape architecture. Welcome to our AGGLO experiment! 18.08.2023 18.00h – […]
As part of the 75th anniversary, IFLA invites you to a webinar: The Landscape Culture Today and Tomorrow. July 27th 2023, online. See more on iflaworld.com Time and Date 27th July 2023 9.00, Philadelphia, Boston 15.00, Basel, Karlsruhe, Dresden 21.00, Beijing, Taipei 23.00, Canberra 1.00 (+1), Wellington Broadcasting Platform: A dedicated Zoom Link will be […]
