International Federation of Landscape Architects
IFLA WORLD CONGRESS
2023
STOCKHOLM X NAIROBI 28–30 September
Congress Programme
- Thursday (day 1)September 28, 2023
- Friday (day 2)September 29, 2023
- Saturday (day 3)September 30, 2023
- Stockholm 08:00 (CET) / Nairobi 08:00 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Registration
Venues open for registration
- Nairobi 09:00 (EAT)
- Nairobi
Pietro Elisei
Presentation by International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) President
- 09:00 (CET) / 10:00 (EAT)
- Online
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Opening ceremony
Opening remarks by IFLA President Bruno Marques, Caroline Vicini, Swedish Ambassador of Kenya, H.E. Diana Kiambuthi Kenyan Ambassador of Sweden, Ylva Hillbur, vice chancellor of Swedish University of agricultural Sciences.
- 09:45 (CET) / 10:45 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Shaping Cities and space
- accelerating urban development towards resilient and inclusive communities.
Laura Petrella, UN Habitat
- 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.
- 10:20 (CET) / 11:20 (EAT)
- Stockholm/ Online
- Nairobi
IFLA President´s Award
The IFLA President’s Award recognises the contribution of an individual or organisation for the advancement of the profession of landscape architecture through their participation in IFLA. 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.
- 10:45 (CET) / 11:45 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Beyond corridors: paths to better cities of tomorrow
Moderator: Helge Flärd, Deputy Ambassador,Embassy of Sweden, Kenya
Johan Folkesson - Head Architect, Swedish Transport Administration
Eng. Howard Mmayi, Senior Engineer, Kenya National Highways Authority
Pln. Juliet Rita, Urban and Transport Planner, Network Cordinator Africa Network for Cycling & Walking, Lecturer, Technical Univeristy of Kenya.
Dr, Finzi Saidi, Architect/Landscape Architect, Head Department of Architecture, University of Johannesburg
- 11:30 (CET) / 12:30 (EAT)
Break
- 12:00 (CET) / 13:00 (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.
- 12:30 (CET) / 13:30 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: Co-designing the Public Realm: The GoDown Arts Centre’s HerCity Herstreets Initiative.
Joy A Mboya, Executive Director, The GoDown Arts Centre
For a full year during the Covid pandemic, The GoDown Arts Centre engaged a core stakeholder group comprised of women and girls in co-designing two public streets – Dunga Road and Dundori Road - that bound the site of The GoDown’s redevelopment into a civic-scale cultural institution. The women core-group systematically assessed the streets and generated design ideas for welcoming, safe and green public streets. Thereafter, planners and landscape architects developed these ideas into the technical designs. The presentation will share The GoDown’s journey in unfolding its people-centred ethos and practice, and how this was applied in its HerCity HerStreets process.
- 13:00 (CET) / 14:00 (EAT)
Lunch break and poster sessions - click for programme
Including poster sessions in Stockholm and online
- 14:00 (CET) / 15:00 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: Torey Carter-Conneen
Torey Carter-Conneen - Chief Executive Officer at American Society of Landscape
The American Society of Landscape Architects is one of the oldest and most influential organizations in the profession, but today it must meet the world in a moment of profound change. With new leadership and a dynamic vision for the future of the profession in the United States, ASLA is looking outward and inward to forge innovative collaborations to help landscape architects meet the global challenges at hand. CEO Torey Carter-Conneen will share ASLA’s vision for landscape architects to lead nature-based planning and design work in priority areas including climate action and biodiversity, as well as supporting meaningful change in inclusivity and diversity.
- 14:30 (CET) / 15:30 (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.
- 15:00 (CET) / 16:00 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- Stockholm
IFLA 75 Anniversary
Steffi Schuppel
Presentation and introduction to the IFLA 75th Anniversary
- 15:10 (CET) / 16:10 (EAT)
Break
- 15:30 (CET) / 16:30 (EAT)
- Online sessions
- Stockholm and Nairobi
Break-out sessions - click for full programme
Break-out-session tracks in Nairobi, Stockholm and online.
- Nairobi 08:30 (EAT)
- Nairobi
Landscape Architecture Globalization and Education Standards
Panel discussion with: Chingwen Cheng, Director of the Stuckeman School and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Penn State University, USA Ellen Fetzer, President of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, Alessandro Martinelli, Ph.D., is Associate professor at the Department of Landscape architecture, the Chinese Culture University, Taipei.
- 09:00 (CET) / 10:00 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
IFLA Student Competition Prize Ceremony
Caroline Wanza, Jomo Kenyatta Univerity of Agriculture and technology, JKUAT & Maria Kylin, Swedish Unversity of Agricultural Sciences, SLU
- 09:10 (CET) / 10:10 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
IFLA Africa Awards & Just trees Prize ceremony
Hosted by Graham Young
- 09:20 (CET) / 10:20 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
IFLA Africa Awardee Presentation
- 09:35 (CET) / 10:35 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: Incorporating AI in the planning and design process
Hitesh Mehta, FAAK FASLA FRIBA Associate AIA, HM Design – Protected Area Planner / Landscape Architect / Architect
With over 35 years of experience, Hitesh is a leader in using Landscape Architecture and Architecture as a tool to improve habitats for indigenous communities and endangered species.
Through award-winning projects, he has been key in protecting African natural and cultural heritage through planning and designing participatory processes.
Hitesh’s presentation is on how his firm, HM Design incorporates Ancestral Intelligence (AI) in the Planning and Design processes of their African projects. His “going back to visualize the future” presentation will highlight his firm’s projects in Kenya, Liberia, and Namibia.
- 10:00 (CET) / 11:00 (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.
- 10:30 (CET) / 11:30 (EAT)
Break (20 min)
- 11:00 (CET) / 12:00 (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.
- 11:30 (CET) / 12:30 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- From Nairobi
Keynote: The Dichotomy of conservation of natural biotic environments versus human settlement and their significance to the present and future Kenyan environment
Robert Kariuki, Landscape architect and founder of LARIAK
One of the pioneering landscape architects in Kenya describes the development of the profession over time.
- 12:00 (CET) / 13:00 (EAT)
Lunch break and poster sessions - click for programme
- 13:00 (CET) / 14:00 (EAT)
- Online sessions
- Stockholm and Nairobi
Break-out sessions / Walk and Talks - click for full programme
Break-out-session tracks in Nairobi, Stockholm and online.
Stockholm participants have the option of joining local walks and talks.
- 15:00 (CET) / 16:00 (EAT)
Break (25 min)
- 15:30 (CET) / 16:30 (EAT)
- Stockholm / Online
- Nairobi
Keynote: The Case for Landscape Architects as Healthy Places Changemakers
Giselle Sebag - Executive Director of the International Society for Urban Health
(ISUH)
Landscape architects create critically important natural infrastructure that shapes our experiences in the physical environment. Landscape architecture and public health grew together as professions out of an urgent need to change our environments to enhance and improve health rather than damaging it. As evidenced by a significant body of research, urban landscapes especially have the potential to dramatically improve health, wellbeing and equity when strategically considered from the initial design phase.
- 16:00 (CET) / 17:00 (EAT)
- Nairobi / Online
- Stockholm
Keynote: Lab Projects – Researching through ongoing practice
Martí Franch Batllori – Founder/Director, EMF Landscape Architecture
The lecture will reflect upon relevant contemporary landscape research topics through applied practice work. Such as unmaking, making the site eloquent, multiplying ecotones and shores, summer is coming or treating nature as an ally and not has a guest. All framed under the perspective of evolutionary time.
- 16:30 (CET) / 17:30 (EAT)
- Online
- Stockholm / Nairobi
Closing ceremony
With speech from Hans Polman Foundation, showcasing the result from the Student Charrette and a take home message by Swedish National Architect Helena Bjarnegård. Ending with the flag hand-over ceremony.
