Winners of the IFLA 2023 Student Design Competition
As part of the key activities of the 59th IFLA World Congress, a students’ competition was organised in order to receive, compare, share and advance landscape planning, design and management ideas from across the world. The main theme of the Congress was Emergent Interaction with the sub-themes ‘Leave No One Behind’, ‘Beyond Borders’ and ‘Act Local-Think Global’.
It aimed to explore new forms of collective problem solving, borderless strategies and possible networks of ideas and cooperation while at the same time keeping the issues of climate change, social inequality and biodiversity-loss at the forefront of the congress. You can read the competition brief here.
The team received 227 entries in one of three categories. The international jury reviewed the entries under the leadership of Student Competition Chair Mahdi Khansefid.
The entries were judged against the following criteria : Relevance of project to the competition theme and sub-themes, Extent of realisation of project goals; this is how well the proposal address the challenges of the selected project, Innovative approaches to landscape planning/landscape design/ applied research, Adherence to the landscape planning methodology; how well the proposal proves that landscape architecture methodology can meet the challenges of the project and Clarity of presentation.
The winners were announced at the IFLA 2023 World Congress which was held bilaterally in Kenya and Sweden, prizes were sponsored by Group Han. You can learn more about the winning entries below.
