Student Design Competition - Retrospective Project

Given that IFLA holds a valuable archive of extraordinary student projects, collected over more than 30 years The IFLA Education and Academic Affairs Committee, along with the Council of IFLA Student Design Competition, decided to launch the IFLA Student Design Competition Retrospective Project. Over the past 10 years, between 150 and 400 student projects were submitted to the annual IFLA Student competition. This response not only makes it possible to perceive the variety of topics and approaches characteristic of the different IFLA Regions and schools, it also demonstrates the full scope of landscape architecture as a profession. Each year, the local competition organizers develop a brief, which asks students to respond to a specific topic and this allows us to see the range of topics and the diversity of problems and approaches across the world. It is also accompanied by the special energy of creative expression often associated with the work of students.

IFLA EAA Committee feels the material we possess in the archives is simply too valuable to stay hidden. IFLA is therefore aims to raise the visibility of our profession and to further inspire students and practitioners by offering schools and national associations this exclusive material, to use in promotional events.

Presentation of the awarded projects from 2003 to 2016, give the opportunity to see the diversity of approaches across the world, as well as, in certain measure, the evolution of the profession, which finds adequate answers to many challenges of the contemporary society by its interdisciplinary approach. In that way, it could also serve schools when there is a need to quickly organize promotional events or just be used within the scope of the teaching process.

With the IFLA Student Design Competition Retrospective Project, our intention is to offer the possibility for member associations, members of IFLA, as well as to the schools of landscape architecture across the world, to acquire the collection of the selected awarded projects from the previous IFLA Student Competitions.

Interested parties, national associations and schools, are free to display the material in a form of appropriate exhibitions, at the time and place they find suitable. In this way, IFLA seeks to promote the Competition and awarded student projects, concurrently strengthening the relationship between the IFLA members and schools.

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