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This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 24 June at 8am NZ time (or 23 June – 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York, 9pm London). 

Abstract:

This lecture will explore recent projects at various sites in the postcolonial and Islamic worlds, thorough two questions. First, how can theoretical, educational, and design possibilities be expanded and diversified through working in societies where there is no formal landscape architecture discipline? Second, how can landscape architects more sensitively work outside of their social contexts with respect and deference for others’ values and ways of life?

Bio:

Gareth Doherty is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Doherty’s contributions invoke theoretical insights from anthropology to learn from people’s daily landscape practices, and designed landscapes, always asking how people-centered fieldwork can inform landscape architectural innovations.

About:

‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the NZILA Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

To attend this lecture, please register through this weblink 👉 https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItf-qppj4pGNAlrlDPwFOLZhs4cmJQ7ot1   

Event Description: In one of the most perplexing times of recent years, IFLA AR has taken on the task of sharing various approaches and reflections on what humanity is experiencing in a time of pandemic, and what we can project post Covid-19.
We want to share approaches on Landscape Architecture. Its perceived role in quarantine; as well as inquiring into what we, landscape architects of the Americas Region, have to say under these circumstances. Likewise, we seek to offer some reflections on the role of landscape architecture once the pandemic have subsided.

Event Details: THEME 1 & 2: Education and Landscape Architecture Industry: LUCINDA SANDERS, (US), CEO OLIN (theolinstudio.com). & DAVID GOUVERNEUR (US). Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania.
Talking about direction post Covid 19 and working on this with a Latin American and American vision. Illustrating with professional and academic projects carried out for Latin American and American cities.

THEME 3: Climate Change: COLLEEN MERCER CLARKE (Canada), World Chair of the Climate Change Working Group IFLA
What challenges do we face in the field of climate change during the pandemic?
What does await for us in Post Covid-19 time?

THEME 4: Food security and productive landscapes: CARLOS JANKILEVICH (Costa Rica), World Chair of the Agricultural Landscape Working Group IFLA
How will IFLA deal with this issue? ¿Together with whom?

THEME 5: Leadership and future generations: BARBARA DEUTSCH (US), Chief Executive Officer Landscape Architecture Foundation LAF
What is the leadership that LAF will propose for future generations of Landscape Architects? That is, how will LAF shape the future Post Covid-19, in the field of Landscape Architecture?

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Join LAF for this online event to showcase leading-edge thinking in landscape architecture to address a breadth of pressing issues.

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THURSDAY 18 June 17.15 PM SOUTH AFRICA TIME

The webinar is hosted by the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa and asks " How will designers come to terms with keeping the "public" in public space against the counter-intuitive need for social distancing?"

The panelist for the webinar includes: Jan Gehl, Kelvin Campbell, Bernard Oberholzer and Leigh Stolworthy. 

Registration link: http://www.ilasa.co.za/webinar-18june2020/

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Join LAF for this online event to showcase leading-edge thinking in landscape architecture to address a breadth of pressing issues.

Full info here.

The webinar touches upon the climate challenges we face and the impact these have to the value of the landscape, our communities and economies. Using real life projects, it discusses on innovative models that have demonstrated the significance of policy, transformation and the landscape in strategic design within multidisciplinary teams and collaboration processes.

Bio: Dr Anastasia Nikologianni holds a European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and Climate Emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA and Agriculturist/Horticulturist M.Sc. Most of her recent research has focused on climate emergency issues, the extent to which spatial quality and low carbon can be delivered in regional landscape design as well as the way visual representations contribute to the design process. 

Anastasia is a research fellow and consultant in Birmingham City University and joins the CATiD BCU team, an international, multidisciplinary research, design and consultancy hub. CATiD’s design-led and conceptual approach aims to place quality of life and sustainability-oriented transformation at the top of the political agenda.

She is also the Chair of the Emerging Professionals Advocate of IFLA World aiming to support landscape architects and designers. Acknowledging that policy plays a significant role in the way large-scale design is implemented, Anastasia is a member of both the Policy and Communications committee and the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Response Panel for the Landscape Institute (UK) and has an active role in various initiatives such as the recent ‘Climate Change Guide for Local Authorities’ in the UK. Holding committee positions at professional organisations have allowed her to work in areas related to climate change and the landscape, fulfilling her passion for the creation of a global network promoting the landscape profession.

10 June 2020 at 8am (NZST) [equivalent to 09 June: 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York or 9pm London]

Zoom Registration Link:

https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuc--pqz4uGNwhv3SWCoKqryzJuAEecsvV