IFLA FEd Unit - Future Education Unit

Today, landscape is at the center of the sustainability debate. Also, it is at the center of the “spatially expansive” life of everyone. Anyhow, globally, the landscape culture is not a diffuse asset. We live in the landscape, but we often do not know what landscape is. Coalescing with the ongoing restructuring of tertiary education, this represents an additional challenge to exit the many sustainability impasses of the day. In light of this, IFLA considers it necessary to promote landscape culture, alongside researching new modalities of tertiary education. Not only that, but it is also deemed necessary to do this by taking “direct action” and proactively cooperating with globally leading professional practices that have already opened themselves to non-institutional forms of research. This perspective forms the foundation of the Future Education Research Unit and the activities that the unit develops, including the development of research, debates, publications, and educational initiatives that offer themselves as a unique test ground for what education in landscape architecture and the sustainability of the built environment will become in the near future.