IFLA GSP - Global Studio Program

Definition:

The IFLA GSP - Global Studio Program is an experimental attempt to solicit coordination across global students charettes in 2025. The official language of the program is English.

Key objectives:

  • The participation of 4/5 landscape architecture master’s or bachelor’s program per IFLA geographic region or sub-region -I.e., North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific Region- to each and every charette is the first and foremost target of the program. In particular, it is targeted the participation of at least 2 students and 1 tutor -selected among the full-time faculty members- per participating program.

  • Some form of coordination in terms of theme and format of each and every student charette is the secondary target of the program.

Rationale:

  • Following one of the core mandates of IFLA World, the rationale of the primary objective of is an actual global participation to the student charettes and renewed attractiveness of these for students and schools. In the mid- long term, hopefully, this should strengthen IFLA and increase IFLA’s reach in terms of students, academics, and institutional membership interests. The achievement of such target corresponds to the mission given by Bruno Marques -the incumbent IFLA World President- to the IFLA World EAA Chair.

  • The rationale of the secondary objective is to provide didactic meaning to the participation in all the charettes and trigger debate and communication between the major landscape events organizers so to diffuse knowledge of the regional differences and interests. This should later facilitate a complementary diversification of the events and thus the participation of the students in each and every charette. The much-needed debate that underpins the achievement of such a target is also meant to create knowledge between academics of different regions, thus building capacity in terms of networking, first of all starting from the organizers of the various global events.

Basic structure:

With no intention of creating disruptions in the current organization of the events and charettes, if not desired by the organizers themselves, the GSP implies the following:

  • an alternative system of application for participating in the charettes -I.e., not by means of personal application, but through the program of enrolment- that complements the established systems of application;

  • the possibility to join all the charettes remotely, if not enough economic resources can be found by the students or the programs to support the logistic required by the participation to all the events.

  • the presence of tutors from the participating programs, that should act as coordinators for the students of their own program as well as mediators between the students and the teachers of the charette, when necessary. Noteworthy to mention, each global event is allowed to enrol to a specific charette more students than those of the GSP. Anyhow, those of the GSP MUST participate to each and every charette. Indeed, the GSP can also be understood as an unique effort in building the Future Leadership in the field and imbue this with consideration for the global exchange.

As a recommendation, it is suggested that each and every charette organizers considers the following amount of participants as a reference: 30 students directly enrolled from the GSP, 20-30 local ones independently applying, 10-20 international ones independently applying for participating. The selection of those students independently applying and their possible rejections is handled by the organizers.

Deadline for EOI:

Deadline is May 30th, 2025; if the choice of the students and faculties requires more time, the last date available to notify their names is June 28th.


Further information:

Download the programme draft here.

For more information about the GSP contact chair.eaa@iflaworld.org


Background to the GSP: Launched on March 22nd, 2024, the IFLA GSP was a first step into integrating global landscape architecture academia. This program aimed to tie together 4 charettes associated with major LA events across 4 IFLA regions with the objective of R&D regarding (1) LA future leadership and (2) a global network of LA education institutions.

The LA events took place during Autumn 2024, you can read more about the wrap up of the 2024 program here.