Joint APAP Portugal - IFLA Europe Conference ‘Landscape architecture: a profession for the future’, 15 March 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

During the 2023 IFLA Europe General Assembly which was held in Naples, Italy, among lost and rescued landscapes, the awareness arose in a very intense and global way, that it is urgent to “Redeem” the identity of landscape architecture, beyond our peers.

This relevance - and urgency - of finding the “formula” for Landscape Architecture to “be recognised” goes beyond a simple identity crisis or the lack of recognition and professional appreciation that, throughout Europe, is experienced first person.

We must, as National Associations, have the courage to honour the arduous and fantastic role played so assertively, practically and concretely by the generations that preceded us and there is no better opportunity than the imbalances of the times in which we live.

Landscape Architecture knows how to act, organise and manage the landscape system, how to minimize imbalances caused by human actions and how to act with the landscape. For all these reasons, Landscape Architecture is the Profession of the future.

In this context, the Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects APAP intends to take advantage of IFLA Europe Executive Council’s presence in Portugal to reflect and establish a way of communicating beyond its peers and put all our skills, knowledge and tools at the service of the community and in a way that is imposed at the service of conscious and sustainable management of the Common House.

For this reason, APAP Portugal is inviting its associates and friends to participate in the APAP/IFLA EUROPE Conference “Landscape Architecture: a profession for the future”, which will be held on 15 March 2024, from 10:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at Casa do Jardim da Estrela, in Lisbon.

The conference will be held in English.

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