IFLA 2022 Student Design Competition

THEME : RE:PUBLIC LANDSCAPE

The world has witnessed rapid changes with the spread of the pandemic, technological revolution, and political conflicts. We the professionals now have the mission to provide healthy, happy, and beautiful vision for 2022. For this, we will gather to discuss issues of landscape with the scale ranging from local to global.
Through this event, we will reclaim public leadership in landscape architecture as we re:visit professional and academic achievements to date, re:shape the earth through emerging discourse and technologies, re:vive everyday lives to healthier and more vibrant days, and finally re:connect to nature.


Category 1 : ANALYSIS AND PLANNINGRapid urbanisation, unprecedented climate changes, fast-changing social scenarios, evolving human-nature relations, and other parameters are guiding how landscape architects have a changed perspective towards analysing the site context. Under this competition category, students can submit analysis and planning work related to the competition theme. This award will distinguish works that stand out in their innovative methods and depth of analysing a problem statement.


Category 2 : LANDSCAPE DESIGNUnder this category, students can submit their individual/teamwork for site-specific Landscape Architecture projects and address relevant questions in the Landscape field. This category emphasizes design formulation techniques, narratives, methodologies, and detailed studies of the associated subject matter for better-curated experiences and taking relevant sensitive approaches.


Category 3 : APPLIED RESEARCHThe landscape architecture profession is constantly evolving and challenging how we design and investigate any landscape issue. Landscape design can both inform or be informed (pre-occupancy research) by research. Research topics can range from life sciences, ecology, sociology, human behaviour, socio-psychology, etc. There is a great scope for applying proven research theories into scientific-based and/or evidence-based designs. Under this competition category, students can submit scientific-based and/or evidence-based design projects related to the competition theme. This award will distinguish works that translate recognized research from the landscape architecture field into creative design solutions

For more information see the Congress website here.