The next World Urban Forum (WUF) will be held in Baku from May 18 to May 22, 2026.
More here https://wuf.unhabitat.org/
Open Call for the 13th Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize
We are pleased to announce the open call for the 13th edition of the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, a prestigious recognition in the field of landscape architecture.
With the support of the Bank of Sabadell Foundation, the prize honours outstanding and innovative landscape projects worldwide. A selection of 7 to 11 finalists will be invited as guest lecturers at the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial Symposium.
Following their presentations, an international jury will select the winning project, which will be awarded the Rosa Barba Prize, with an endowment of 15,000 euros.
Deadline for submissions: May 30, 2025 at midnight.
For further details and submission guidelines, please visit [https://landscape.coac.net/en/13-rosa-barba-casanovas-international-landscape-architecture-prize-2025]
Dear IFLA Members,
We are thrilled to announce a transformative partnership between the International Federation of
Landscape Architects (IFLA) and FutureScape Global, marking an unprecedented opportunity for our global community.
A Gateway to Saudi Arabia's Landscape Revolution
This partnership opens direct access to Saudi Arabia's historic $1.5 trillion investment in sustainable landscape development. As the world’s most ambitious transformation unfolds, IFLA members will be at the forefront of shaping this remarkable journey.
Why This is Unmissable
Exclusive access to key decision-makers driving Saudi Arabia's landscape transformation
Direct engagement with global industry leaders and innovative suppliers including Shira Group, Citiscape, MEAC, SRACO, Gibus
Real-time project opportunities through the cutting-edge B2B matchmaking platform
Join global industry leaders in Saudi Arabia to explore innovative sustainable landscaping and smart city solutions through an international conference program
Event Details
Date: April 28-29, 2025
Venue: The Arena Riyadh
Highlight: FutureScape Global Awards 2025
We are particularly proud to announce that IFLA President Bruno Marques will chair the prestigious
FutureScape Global Awards, featuring projects from world-renowned firms including Martha Schwartz
Projects, OneWorks, One Landscape, and RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medalists.
Your Professional Growth Awaits
This collaboration represents more than just an event - it's a gateway to:
Direct business opportunities in one of the world's most dynamic markets
Cutting-edge insights into sustainable landscape development
Valuable networking with global industry leaders
First-hand exposure to groundbreaking projects and innovations
As your professional federation, we strongly encourage you to seize this exceptional opportunity.
Early registration ensures you'll have full access to all networking and learning opportunities.
Register now to secure your place at this landmark event. Looking forward to seeing you in Riyadh.
The CELA 2025 conference, titled "Processes + Impacts" will take place March 27-29, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. More information here.
12th December, 14:00 ET
Joanna Eyquem will discuss progress and examples of efforts to mainstream consideration of nature-based solutions, ranging from strategic approaches and technical guidance, to integration in municipal management and financial reporting.
More about this webinar can be found on the CSLA website here.
Join the 20th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), hosted by the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) in Marrakesh, Morocco from 18 - 21 November, 2024.
ICUH is the premier global gathering for interdisciplinary professionals, researchers, policymakers, and community advocates dedicated to improving urban health worldwide.
This year's theme, "A Healthier Horizon: Activating Urban Health Strategies for a Climate Resilient Tomorrow," could not be more critical for the future of urban health in Africa and across the world. Engage with world-leading experts as we explore innovative models of city policy, development and design that foster holistic health, wellbeing and equity for all.
At ICUH 2024, you will:
Connect with a unique, global network of leaders striving to make cities healthier, more equitable, and environmentally sustainable.
Uncover transformative, evidence-based solutions for pressing urban challenges, from mental health to climate change justice.
Learn how to bridge the gaps between research, policy, and practice, mobilizing resources to shape cities that support health and equity today and for future generations.
Don't miss this unparalleled opportunity to drive change and make a lasting impact in cities across the globe. Be part of the movement—join us at ICUH 2024!
More here.
Academy of Architecture
Start date: 13 November 2024 / 12:00
End date: 15 November 2024 / 18:30
4th Symposium of the Istituto di studi urbani e del paesaggio (ISUP)
organised by
Jonathan Sergison
João Nunes
João Gomes da Silva
with the support of
Mosè Cometta
and Enrico Sassi
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 character of landscape architecture involve the consideration of time as a fundamental dimension in its conceptual framing, and a focus on exploring new ways of merging anthropic and natural systems rather than on the creation of new objects.
These characteristics may allow the transformative processes that are part of the continuous construction of human habitats to develop more ethical ways of engaging with and working towards the resolution of global issues.
In both practice and research, landscape architecture has produced new ideas
and activated processes that address contemporary challenges in innovative ways, with some exemplary results.
We call on all those who, as researchers and as professionals in practice, can communicate such experiences.
Moving away from the classical format of presenting practices’ work, individual projects or portfolios we invite contributions from designers, planners and researchers reflecting on how landscape architecture addresses the major challenges of our society and contributes to the production of contemporary space.
The symposium aims to explore the following issues
The approach of landscape architecture to climate change
Energy transition and energy landscapes
Water quality, availability and distribution
Social inequalities in access to water, food, space, and knowledge
Relation between the anthropic and the wild
Soil erosion and agricultural land abandonment. World hunger and productive capacity.
Mobility at all scales
Waste management and environmental contamination
Territorial continuity
60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, 9-12 October, Sienna, Italy
REINVENTING THE (IN)VISIBLE CITIES
9-12 October 2024 | Siena, Italy
The 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress – Reinventing the (In)Visible Cities, will be held in the historic Italian city of Siena, from the 9th to 12th October 2024. This will be the highlight event of this special year and part of ISOCARP’s 60th World Planning Congress Diamond Anniversary Series, celebrating 60 years of congresses.
https://isocarp.org/activities/60th-wpc-siena-2024/
TILA cordially invites landscape architecture professionals, scholars, and students to join the 2024 GLAC - Global Landscape Architecture Conference.
In particular, the GLAC includes a Conference and a Student Charette. These will be held from October 8 to 13, 2024, in Taipei.
Mr. Gunther Vogt (from Vogt Landscape Architects and ETH Zurich) and Mr. Niall Kirkwood (from GSD Harvard) are among the many global disciplinary leaders who will participate in the event.
The theme of the conference is "A NEW GREEN ERA." By bringing together a vast number of global experts through keynote speeches, symposia, paper presentations, and project presentations, the conference will focus on the possibility of carbon-reducing green design in response to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The deadline for submissions to the conference is July 31, 2024. For all questions, please contact the conference secretariat, Ms. Alice Tsao, at 2024glac@gmail.com
The theme of the Student Charette is “SUSTAINING LIFE FOR ALL.” This is an intensive workshop open to landscape architecture students organized by TILA in cooperation with Fujen Catholic University, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, and will be preceded by two weeks of online preparatory activities.
Through the charette, the participants will explore the historical and cultural dimensions of Taipei's Yuanshan area and develop landscape design proposals for a more sustainable and livable urban infrastructure.
The applications to the student charette are already closed. For all questions, please contact the student charette executive director, Ms. Ying-Hsuan Lin, at yhlinla8@gmail.com
For more information on the GLAC, please visit the website: https://2024glac.tw
Welcome to the Future Green City World Congress
From 23 until 26 September 2024, over the course of four days, more than 3000 experts from around the world will share their passion and knowledge about the liveable green city with a future here.
The Future Green City World Congress is an initiative of Royal Association Stadswerk the Netherlands and Royal Dutch society for garden designers and landscapers (VHG) In Utrecht, they bring together the worlds of green and civil engineering, in cooperation with World Urban Parks (WUP) and the International Federation of Municipal Engineering (IFME). The congress connects construction, greenery, infra and water. By showing different solutions and by connecting networks in these domains, we are building a city with a future together.
As organisers, Stadswerk, VHG and the City of Utrecht warmly welcome you to the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht. For four days, this is the place to hear the best speakers and see the most inspiring examples of green transformations of cities from all over the world. And above all: here you can engage in conversation with peers from all parts of the world.
More information here.
CELA invites submissions for the 2025 Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. This year’s conference theme is ‘Processes + Impacts’. We seek abstracts that explore the complex interplay between design processes and their resulting impacts on people, places, and the environment.
Submit Your Abstracts – Deadline September 16, 2024 – 11:59 pm (Author’s Time Zone)
More information here.
Regenerative Landscapes. Designing the Transition.
The World Green Infrastructure Congress 2024 (WGIC) will take place from 3 – 5 September in Auckland, New Zealand!
World Green Infrastructure Congress is the leading global event promoting an exchange of knowledge and inspiration between professionals, companies, associations, institutions, public authorities and scientists to discuss nature-based solutions. Our reliance and impact on the environment underline the need for sustainable urban environments, where biodiversity, water and society are regenerated.
More here.
How much does architecture weigh when the future of the entire planet is at stake? What is the role of architecture and design amidst ecological crises, catastrophes and political upheaval? Can design make a difference, solve problems, and bring any radical change for the better?
Two days, three themes (ERA), with presentations on:
ENVIRONMENT
RESOURCES
ARCHITECTURE
The main themes have emerged from the topical phenomena of global crises; climate change, extreme weather conditions and the loss of biodiversity to the political, financial and societal changes in our environment. Check the programme HERE.
The 16th Alvar Aalto Symposium 22.-23.8.2024 is a hybrid event, onsite in Jyväskylä, Finland, and virtual for a large international audience around the world. The event language is English. The traditional onsite venue is the main building of the University of Jyväskylä (Alvar Aalto, 1954-55).
Join this webinar briefing to discover how plants and planting can create a sense of place in urban parks. The use and engagement of urban parks is intrinsically linked to how people feel when they are there.
Plants play an important role in showing local habitat, creating and changing with the seasons and providing a sense of identity to an area. Hear from world leading experts and AIPH partner World Urban Parks.
13 June 2024 - , 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm BST, Online
More, including how to book here.
Landscape as Architecture: Call for papers for the symposium
Deadline for submissions 31 May 2024
https://www.arc.usi.ch/feeds/13540
#LandArch #LandscapeArchitecture #CallforPapers #Symposium
The 2024 Firth NZILA Wānanga will be held in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington 16-17 May 2024, culminating with the Resene New Zealand Landscape Architecture Awards on the evening of 17 May.
Earlybird registrations are now open! Join NZILA for sharing, learning, networking and celebrating.
More on the NZILA website here.
Following the success of the first two series, the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) and the Worshipful Company of Gardeners (WCoG) present the AIPH Green City Briefings 2024/25. These free one hour webinars will demonstrate how successful integrated urban greening provides benefits for the city, its residents, and nature.
Each webinar will provide compelling evidence and examples of the power of ‘living green’ to deliver multiple solutions to city challenges. The first webinar in the series, titled ‘Flourishing urban design with plants’, will take place at 1pm BST on 16th May 2024. The focus of this session will be on how the incorporation of plants into city environments not only provides beauty, but also contributes to improved air quality, reduced urban heat island effect, and enhanced biodiversity.
Leading this first session is Jane Welsh, OALA, FCSLA, who is the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Special Envoy to AIPH and Co-Chair of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Committee on Climate Adaptation. Jane is currently the Project Manager of the Environmental Planning unit of Toronto City Planning, leading the team responsible for creating new innovative solutions to address climate adaptation and mitigation, natural heritage protection and biodiversity loss and change the way Canada’s largest city is built.
Two experts will join Jane and will present real life examples of how selecting plants for cities can combat significant issues. The first speaker is Elisa Olivares, Lecturer for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Elisa’s presentation will focus on how research, outreach, and collaboration can help cities in Mexico to improve their biodiversity, where the landscape is experiencing accelerated loss due to climate change, land use, and vegetation loss.
The second speaker for the Briefing is Kathryn Deery, Head Horticulturist at Lurie Garden in Chicago, USA. An urban model of responsible horticulture, Lurie Garden provides a healthy habitat for a wide variety of plants, animals, and insects. The garden offers a four-season experience, blending Chicago’s past, present and future with bold design, dramatic form, and intimate spaces. In her presentation, Kathryn will explore shifting the mindset from one of maintenance to management in the garden and designing with perennials in an urban setting.
Following these presentations, Jane Welsh will lead a panel style discussion, taking questions from the audience, and from those posted on the AIPH Global Green City Forum.
For more information and to register, visit the AIPH Website or sign up to receive the AIPH Global Green City Update.
Working Group on Naturecultures Heritage Landscape Evolution
Wednesday, April 17th 2024 12:00 and 21.00 UTC
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice: The State of Cultural Landscapes
The Routledge Handbook on Cultural Landscape Practice was published in 2023. It comprises 52 chapters
over 542 pages, is global in coverage, and to which 63 authors contributed. It offers a snapshot of the
state of present-day landscape conservation practice. This webinar provides an opportunity for authors to
discuss successes and challenges related to the safeguarding of cultural landscapes and future aspirations
for them.
Led by Steve Brown and Cari Goetcheus, the webinars will include contributions by Jessica Brown, Chun-
Hsi Wang, César Augusto Velandia Silva, Alice Gorman, Ege Yıldırım, Stuart Jeffrey, Flavia Kiperman, and
other chapter authors.
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/8275484561?pwd=dUx4UGRibGhENk9LZGVSRU04RFZpQT09
Passcode: 827548
The Nature of Cities Festival
The distance between dreams and. reality is action
15-26 April — Virtual
3-7 June — Berlin
More here.
Be part of the movement!
Join the Festival of the New European Bauhaus on 9-13 April. Take part in Forum, Fair and Fest in Brussels, watch the Festival online or attend Satellite events across Europe and beyond!
Welcome to the New European Bauhaus Festival, where imagination meets sustainability and inclusivity for a beautiful future! Join us in Brussels from the 9th to the 13th of April in Parc du Cinquantenaire and the Arts & History Museum, online, or attend a Satellite Event from Europe and beyond.
During interactive sessions, workshops, demonstrations, and artistic performances, you will discover and experience the innovative power of Europe in building a common future that is not only visually stunning but also mindful of our collective well-being.
More here.
In an era where 15% of the global population faces some form of disability, there has never been a time more important than now to ensure landscape design incorporates accessibility for everyone. In this webinar hosted by the Accessibility in Landscape Initiative, we talk with some of the region's leading project developers to understand the strategies to embrace such a critical need. For years, we have heard the talk, but it’s now time we take immediate action to ensure our future cities are inclusive to the needs of everybody.
The Accessibility in Landscape Initiative is committed to ensuring that pioneering and innovative landscape designs are not only functional but also celebrate diversity and foster community well-being.
Register here.
60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress
REINVENTING THE (IN)VISIBLE CITIES
9-12 October 2024 | Siena, Italy
The 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress – Reinventing the (In)Visible Cities, will be held in the historic Italian city of Siena, from the 9th to 12th October 2024. This will be the highlight event of this special year and part of ISOCARP’s 60th World Planning Congress Diamond Anniversary Series, celebrating 60 years of congresses.
More here.
The ‘Living Green, Liveable Cities’ Research Symposium will take place 4-5th February 2024 in Doha, Qatar, alongside Expo 2023 Doha Qatar.
The Research Symposium accompanies the special Cities & Health journal issue, also titled ‘Living Green, Liveable Cities’. This special issue was instigated by AIPH and Expo 2023 Doha Qatar to investigate the science and practice supporting the concept showcased the Expo of creating liveable and healthy urban environments through city greening.
Contributing authors to the special issue will give presentations on their research at the Symposium, focussing on three themes:
Social and Cultural Health
Health and Wellbeing
Environmental health
More here.
14 – 15 NOVEMBER 2023, MARINA BAY SANDS EXPO & CONVENTION CENTRE
Circular Cities Summit 1.0
Game-Changing Innovations for Future Cities
More information here.
19th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) will take place in Atlanta, USA on November 6 — 9, 2023.
ICUH is the leading event for urban health experts, local governments, businesses, entrepreneurs, and local urban leaders to come together and imagine a healthier, more equitable and sustainable future. Hosted in a different city and different global region each year, thousands of urban health changemakers from all over the world share the latest research on creating healthy physical and social urban environments, how to drive and scale successful implementation, planning effective policy, partnering with the private sector, and how together, we can accelerate a healthy urban transformation and shape an inspiring future for the cities we live in. As the only global meeting of its kind, the ICUH advances knowledge and action to improve health by addressing the comprehensive determinants present in cities.
Save the date and stay tuned for upcoming details around registration and our call for abstracts! We look forward to seeing you all in Atlanta!
Conference website here.
