ABAP (Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects) and IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) once again bring to Brazil the great 46th IFLA World Congress, to be held in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), from 21 to 23 October 2009, in conjunction with the 2nd ABAP International Congress.
Goals
- To foment the gathering of professionals from the private and public sectors, educational and research areas, promoting landscape architecture throughout the world, with the purpose of consolidating this design and planning field in Brazil
- To enable global networking among landscape architecture professionals
- To create an environment for business through a parallel exhibition to showcase products, services, and technological innovations
Theme
The 46 th IFLA World Congress and the 2nd ABAP International Congress themed "Green infrastructure: High-performance Landscapes" will focus on sustainability of production processes and promotion of debate and information exchange on space and city designs. With the application of Landscape Architecture, these designs are guided by environmental preservation and social-economic benefit to the community, in addition to opportunities of aesthetic enrichment of such places.
As the specific discipline of open space design, Landscape Architecture´s scope ranges from residential areas, housing developments, and parks, to renovation of entire urban areas. Besides that, Landscape Architecture can provide specialized consulting on regenerating degraded environments and formatting projects for environmental licensing in cities and natural areas.
Due to the environmental crisis, there has been an increased demand for higher energy efficiency and new forms of circulation, housing, and leisure in cities. In order to achieve that, Landscape Architecture has a fundamental role in the improvement of image and safety in cities as well as the sense of self-worth of their inhabitants, having great potential to contribute to the planning of open spaces - both public and private, providing more environmental comfort, renovation of underused urban areas, recovery of brownfields, conservation and restoration of natural resources, mainly water ones, and environmental and public health services.
The program includes international conferences and presentation of over 70 works in parallel rooms, allowing great information exchange among landscape architecture professionals from all over the world. Registration and call for works should be submitted through this page.
Another highlight of the 46 th IFLA WORLD CONGRESS and the 2 nd ABAP INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS will be the great number of activities and workshops for students, in conjunction with the International Student Design Competition. Prizes will be awarded by the Han Group, IFLA, and ABAP.
One of the main goals of the congress is to valorize landscape architecture design and its practitioners throughout different countries, in addition to enabling broad networking among professionals from all over the world.
Attendees
Professionals
- Landscape architects
- IFLA Delegates
- Architects and Urban Planners
- Public Managers
- Civil Engineers and Builders
- Forest and Agronomy Engineers
- Landscape artists, vivarists and garden developers
- Media
- Students
Companies and Agencies
- Ministry of Environment and City Ministry
- Public Works and State and City Parks Department
- Real Estate Builders and Developers
- Energy Companies
- Green Building Certifiers
- Suppliers of construction, materials, irrigation systems, urban site furnushings, landscape lighting, signage.
- Professional and third sector associations
- Universities and foundations
- Nurseries
Call for Submissions
We are inviting practitioners, academics and students, to discuss, critique, and demonstrate how through a variety of mediums and a potential mediation of design disciplines we can reconsider contemporary ideas of landscape functions as green-infrastructure.
We are seeking submissions of experimental and innovative design projects and critiques, research, written and photographic essays, digital animations or film.
Selected speakers will address the audience with a 20 minute presentation on their designs related to the following session categories:
1. Green Infrastructure Design,
2. Green-Infrastructure for New Developments,
3. Recovering with Green Infrastructure,
4. New role of the Landscape.
Within these categories, the themes to be discussed must raise issues on integrating environmental, social and economical aspects of sustainability.
For instance, projects related to:
- Planning and design in the Amazon
- Landscape Planning and Design with enphasis on Certificates such as LEED.
- Cities and climate change.
- Environmetal compensations.
- Restoration and carbon free issues.
- Saving natural resources and using renewable energy sources. Flash flood prevention.
- City water treatment and conservation.
- Contaminated water treatment and reuse.
- Accessibility.
- Public Open Space Network.
- Landscape Conservancy and Heritage.
- Landscape and Public Health. Leisure and recreation.
- Planning and design on degraded sites and brownfields.
- The increasing value of Landscape Architecture in Commercial and Residential developments.
- Alternative landscape technologies.
- City Branding.
We expect a presentation with clear illustrations, either as slides in PowerPoint or videos. Questions and debate will follow each session.
Please submit your digital proposal at the end of this page, with an abstract of 6000 characters (including spaces) in Portuguese, English or Spanish, and add at least one out of four illustrations, which might be photos, graphics, or anything that illustrates your proposed presentation, in a jpg format 400kb (each one).
We plan to publish in the proceedings any proposal that passes the referee selection process, and which at least one of the authors will be registered to attend and speak in the Congress. Selected speakers and some other contributors will be invited to deliver a final digital paper of 2000-2500 words with illustrations for digital publication later on.
Deadlines
Received Submissions: 31 January 2009
Announcement of selected submissions: 31 March 2009
Registration of selected authors at the Congress: 30 April 2009
Sending of the selected submissions: 31 July 2009
Konuyla İlgili Linkler