International Federation of Landscape Architects

IFLA 
WORLD 
CONGRESS 
2023

STOCKHOLM X NAIROBI 
28–30 September

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

Registration
  • 08:00 (CET) / 09:00 (EAT)
  • Stockholm / Nairobi

Registration

Venues open for registration

Opening ceremony
  • 09:00 (CET) / 10:00 (EAT)
  • Online
  • Stockholm / Nairobi

Opening ceremony

Sir Jellicoe Award presentation
  • 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.

Panel discussion: Policy governance
  • 10:30 (CET) / 11:30 (EAT)
  • Stockholm / Online
  • Nairobi

Panel discussion: Policy governance

More information to follow

  • 11:00 (CET) / 12:00 (EAT)

Break

Keynote: Shifting Landscapes: Emergent interactions from Kibera to Coachella, to Stockholm, and back
  • 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.

Keynote
  • 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)

Keynote: Torey Carter-Conneen
  • 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

Keynote: Eva Pfannes
  • 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

Site-specific options
Break-out sessions / Walk and Talks
  • 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.

Site-specific options
Evening events

Evening events

Learn more about evening events hosted by Nairobi and Stockholm respectively by clicking on the respective location link above.

Prize ceremonies
  • 09:00 (CET) / 10:00 (EAT)
  • Online
  • Stockholm / Nairobi

Prize ceremonies

Joint programme

Keynote: Hitesh Mehta, HM Design
  • 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.

Keynote: Atmospheric and site-specific space. How to create a sustainable, green and social aware projects, fit into a local site-specific context.
  • 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)

Keynote: Common Premises over time in Swedish Landscape architecture
  • 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)

Site-specific options
Break-out sessions / Walk and Talks
  • 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)

Keynote: Giselle Sebag, ISUH
  • 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.

Keynote: Marti Franch, EMF
  • 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.

Closing ceremony
  • 16:20 (CET) / 17:20 (EAT)
  • Online
  • Stockholm / Nairobi

Closing ceremony

Joint programme

Site-specific options
Evening events

Evening events

Learn more about evening events hosted by Nairobi and Stockholm respectively by clicking on the respective location link above.

Contact

For enquiries, please contact:

info@ifla2023.com

sweden@ifla2023.com

kenya@ifla2023.com

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