IFLA Working Programme 11 - International Landscape Convention
Goal: Develop and promote an International Landscape Convention.
Impact: Strengthen the global recognition and protection of landscapes, promote sustainable landscape practices, and enhance the influence of landscape architecture in international policy and development.
Working Programme Members
Director - Kathryn Moore
IFLA past president, Kathryn Moore is the creator of the West Midlands National Park (WMNP) and Director of the international think tank, the WMNP Lab. She is leading the development of this new approachto transform regions and cities, organizations, policy, modes of governance and finance, addressing global challenges in the context of the accelerating climate emergency.
Co-director - Diane Menzies
Diane Helen Menzies ONZM (née Bright) is a New Zealand landscape architect. She is a former Environment Court commissioner, and served as president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects from 2006 to 2010. In 2008, she was invested as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment.
Other members of Working Programme 11
Abdullah Alawad
Alexandra Andrianou
Aliu Aminat
Ana Patricia Huanca Paco
Anapuna Bharti
Anggia Murni
Carla Goncalves
Cathe Desiree Nadal
Celen Pasalar
Christian Adam
Christoher Byrne
Christel Hannah Go
Cindy Pornelos
Fumikaze Nishiyama
Lesly Jennifer Diaz
Maria Gabriella Trovato
Maria Ndala
Marie Louise Schega
Martha C. Fajardo
Nihan Ozdover
Reza Farhadi
Salman Ebrahimi
Shroq Bawazir
Vanshika Tyaqi
Yilei Wang
WP11 Updates
Survey: What is landscape to you?
Landscape is nature, memory, and culture, the bedrock of society and the foundation of who we are. It gives us food, water, and clean air. It is where we belong: where we come from, live, and work. From a sidewalk to the skyline, from urban squares to open seas and skies, landscape shapes our mood, our confidence, and our sense of hope, often while being taken for granted and under threat.
Understanding landscape as a whole helps us make better decisions: how to care for our environment, meet global challenges, and engage the communities who call it home.
The Campaign
As part of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), the International Landscape Convention (ILC) working program invites people everywhere to answer this one simple question, ‘What is landscape to you?’ and to celebrate the rich diversity of landscape and what it means to us.
We're asking landscape architects and everyday citizens alike, Indigenous communities, youth, artists, and policymakers, to share a single photograph and a sentence or short paragraph explaining what a landscape means to you and why.
Your response will join a global collection of voices, not generic categories, but real places and real meanings, that will help shape spatial visions, planning, and design worldwide. Selected submissions may be featured in an exhibition and publications promoting the proposed International Landscape Convention. Our goal is for your country, and countries world-wide, to support an International Landscape Convention. We need your support.