IFLA Working Programme 06 - Ethics, Equity, and Social Justice

Goal: Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the landscape architecture profession through advocacy and inclusive environments, and champion ethical, socially responsible practices addressing environmental justice, community engagement, and human rights.

Impact: Cultivate a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive profession that creates more just and inclusive landscapes, respecting human rights and promoting environmental justice

Working Programme Members

Director - Chingwen Cheng

Chingwen Cheng Is the director and professor, Stuckeman School, College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State University. Cheng has engaged with several research hubs and networks worldwide, including chairing the Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene Design for Justice thematic working group and Association of Pacific Rim Universities (ARPU) Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Vulnerable, Resilient, and Climate Justice Communities working group with ongoing projects on design justice theoretical frameworks.

Co-director - Jillian Wallis

Jillian Wallis Is an associate professor in Landscape Architecture at University of Melbourne. She researches the relationship between theory, culture and contemporary design practice. Her current focus is on 2 areas: digital technologies and their application in landscape architecture and evolving notions of civic in the twenty-first century. Her research project Twenty-First Century Civic examines how civic space is conceived in an increasingly global design practice.

Other members of the Working Programme

Eiko tomura

Keren Maina

Miza Moreau

Shroq Omar Mohammed Bawazir

Zaki Maharani

Ellen Fetzer