International Federation of Landscape Architects
IFLA WORLD CONGRESS
2023
STOCKHOLM X NAIROBI 28–30 September
Programme >
JOINT PROGRAMME / ONLINE
Programme overview
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28 september
Opening ceremony
Plenary sessions
Break-out sessions
Walk&Talks
Evening: after congress drink
29 september
Plenary Sessions
Break-out sessions
Walk&Talks
Closing ceremony
Evening: Dinner/Party
30 september
Post congress tours
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NAIROBI AND STOCKHOLM - HOW WILL IT WORK?
As the congress is held in two locations simultaneously some parts of the program will be joint and streamed between the countries as well as to an international audience onlin. Certain programme elements are site-specific.
The joint and online programme consists of: The opening ceremony and plenary sessions (where some key notes will be held in Nairobi and some in Stockholm), joint break-out sessions and the closing ceremony.
The site-specific programme varies between Nairobi and Stockholm and applies to certain break-out sessions, walks and talks around the city, evening events and post-congress tours. You can read more about the site-specific events under either host city in the main navigation menu.
Preliminary schedule
- Thursday (day 1)September 28, 2023
- Friday (day 2)September 29, 2023
- Saturday (day 3)September 30, 2023
- 08:00 (CET) / 09:00 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Registration
Venues open for registration
- 09:00 (CET) / 10:00 (EAT)
- Online
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Opening ceremony
- 10:00 (CET) / 11:00 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- Stockholm
Sir Jellicoe Award presentation
The Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest honor that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect. The award recognises living landscape architects whose achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment and the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture.
- 10:30 (CET) / 11:30 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Panel discussion: Policy governance
More information to follow
- 11:00 (CET) / 12:00 (EAT)
Break
- 11:20 (CET) / 12:20 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- From Stockholm
Keynote: Shifting Landscapes: Emergent interactions from Kibera to Coachella, to Stockholm, and back
Arthur Adeya - Architect and Landscape architect, lecturer at JKUAT, Co-founder, Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI)
Joe Mulligan - Civil and environmental engineer, Principal founder and Executive Director of KDI
A discussion between the founders and shapers of KDI that explores the evolution of KDI’s transnational and transdisciplinary journey, from Kibera to Coachella, to Stockholm, and back again.
"We aim to draw conclusions about the potential of emergent and upstart landscape and design practices required ot attend to the urgent demands of social and environmental justice. We offer a specific set of strategies and experiences shaped by the maxim: make it until you make it."
Combating questions of poverty, environmental degradation and social isolation — Arthur and Joe have been transforming unsafe and underused sites into ""Productive Public Spaces"" through participatory and interdisciplinary methods. Through site-specific design they create permanent and temporary places around the world and with creative solutions for green infrastructure and safer and healthier cities.
- 12:00 (CET) / 13:00 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote
Keynote speaker to be confirmed.
- 12:30 (CET) / 13:30 (EAT)
Lunch break (55 min)
- 13:20 (CET) / 14:20 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: Torey Carter-Conneen
Torey Carter-Conneen - Chief Executive Officer at American Society of Landscape
Presentation to follow
- 13:50 (CET) / 14:50 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- Stockholm
Keynote: Eva Pfannes
Eva Pfannes, Architect and urban designer, Director and co-founder of OOZE
After a long era of unprecedented economic growth generating an over-expansion of built space, it now might still be time to protect and reconstruct nature, in other words, to dedicate oneself fully and as a matter of urgency to the production of nature as a long-term objective. The talk will explore and illustrate, through examples of OOZE’s work, how understanding and deploying natural processes could be a methodology and strategy to overcome to heal and repair our immediate and wider environment.
- 14:30 (CET) / 15:30 (EAT)
Break
- 15:00 (CET) / 16:00 (EAT)
- Online sessions
- Stockholm and Nairobi
Break-out sessions / Walk and Talks
Break-out-session tracks in Nairobi, Stockholm and online.
Stockholm participants have the option of joining local walks and talks.
Detailed programme to follow.
- 09:00 (CET) / 10:00 (EAT)
- Online
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Prize ceremonies
Joint programme
- 09:15 (CET) / 10:15 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: Hitesh Mehta, HM Design
Hitesh Mehta, Landscape Architect/ Architect, HM Design, FASLA, FRIBA, FAAK, Associate, AIA.
With over 34 years of experience Hitesh is a leader in using landscape architecture as a tool to improve habitats for indigenous communities and endangered species.
Through award-winning projects he has been key in protecting the East African cultural heritage through design and participatory processes.
- 09:45 (CET) / 10:45 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- Stockholm
Keynote: Atmospheric and site-specific space. How to create a sustainable, green and social aware projects, fit into a local site-specific context.
Jens Linnet, Creative Director and Co-founder of BOGL
In his lecture, landscape architect Jens Linnet will explore the dynamic nature of landscape architecture, particularly in light of the pressing issues of climate crisis and social needs in urban areas. Drawing from a range of BOGL projects, he will highlight the potential of integrating circularity, biodiversity, and climate solutions, with the creation of unique and socially- engaging possibilities of landscape architecture as a catalysts for positive change.
Representing an award-winning approach of circular design and climate adaptation, Jens showcases the Scandinavian design tradition where the human experience is central to the dynamics of a changing landscape.
Atmospheric and site-specific space. How to create a sustainable, green and social aware projects, fit into a local site-specific context.
- 10:15 (CET) / 11:15 (EAT)
Break (20 min)
- 10:30 (CET) / 11:30 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- From Stockholm
Keynote: Common Premises over time in Swedish Landscape architecture
Åsa Drougge, Landscape architect, Founder of Nivå Landskapsarkitektur
Anders Kling - Landscape architect, founder of Land Arkitektur
What has shaped landscape architecture in Sweden? A northern forest country where people have historically been more influenced by nature and the rural context than the urban city? Through an exposé up to today, Anders and Åsa try to summarize common premises over time in Swedish landscape architecture. And what can we learn from what has already been done for tomorrow's challenges.
- 12:00 (CET) / 13:00 (EAT)
Lunch break (55 min)
- 13:00 (CET) / 14:00 (EAT)
- Online sessions
- Stockholm and Nairobi
Break-out sessions / Walk and Talks
Break-out-session tracks in Nairobi, Stockholm and online.
Stockholm participants have the option of joining local walks and talks.
Detailed programme to follow.
- 14:50 (CET) / 15:50 (EAT)
Break (10 min)
- 15:00 (CET) / 16:00 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: Giselle Sebag, ISUH
Giselle Sebag - Executive Director of the International Society for Urban Health
(ISUH)
Keynote presentation details to be updated.
- 15:35 (CET) / 16:35 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- Stockholm
Keynote: Marti Franch, EMF
Marti Franch – Founder/Principal, EMF Landscape Architecture
EMF explores hybrid ways between ecological systems & cultural constructs to inform projects and build up new realities.
Keynote presentation details to be updated.
- 16:20 (CET) / 17:20 (EAT)
- Online
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Closing ceremony
Joint programme
