X-LArch
The international conference on Landscape Architecture by ILA Institute of Landscape Architecture, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria and ÖGLA Österreichische Gesellschaft für Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftsarchitektur, the Austrian Society for Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture focuses on the spatial and societal phenomena of current landscape and open space design.
In 2012 it takes places for the 4th time and titles LANDSCAPE100
LANDSCAPE 100
LANDSCAPE - GREAT IDEA!
X-LArch III 2009
LANDSCAPE - GREAT IDEA!
April 29th – May 1st , 2009
Vienna, Austria
Study Tours offered on May 1st , 2009
Student Workshop with the Key-note Speakers offered on April 28th, 2009
Key-note speakers:
Marc Treib (Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Helen Armstrong (Professor-Emerita of Landscape Architecture, Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct-Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, AUS)
In the year of 2008, 50% of the people worldwide are living in cities, and this number is yet to increase, changing urban landscapes at an accelerated pace. Edward Soja and Miguel Kanai announce the global urban age consisting of the urbanization of the globe on the one hand and the globalization of urbanism as a way of life on the other. Globally the structures of landscapes and settlements are converging - resulting in types of urbanity which are hard to distinguish. In the context of spatial development landscape plays a crucial role (at least) in the professional discussion.
The production of landscape has always been based on a construct of ideas. As ideas shift along societal changes, the meaning of landscape is subject to constant mutation. Designed and built landscapes function as a catalogue of interpretations of nature, of society, of economics, of cultures.
What role can landscape play to restructure our decision and design-processes, our environment and our perception?
The conference wants to foster exchange and debate among researchers from across Europe and beyond. It provides a forum for cross-national and cross-disciplinary debate on the future of urbanity and landscape and acts as a bridge between research and practitioners.
The conference LANDSCAPE – GREAT IDEA! is looking for contributions on the ideas behind landscapes and landscape architecture. Which is the background for the hype of landscape in a wide range of disciplines? Can landscape work as an instrument, as an example and if so, how?