This International Student Competition is part of the 11th Landscape Forum of the LE:NOTRE Institute (to be held in April, 2022), hosted by the Italian Region Emilia Romagna in cooperation with its local partner institutions. The LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum is a four-day discourse-oriented, interdisciplinary event. It focuses on local landscapes and the sustainability challenges they are facing, with the goal to gather, disseminate, and activate landscape knowledge that can help local constituencies face them. In accordance with the European Landscape Convention, our definition of landscapes … [Read more...] about Le:Notre Landscape Forum 2022 | International Student Competition
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UNISCAPE online Lecture Series 2022
Where the Disciplines Meet Building on the success of last year’s pilot on-line series, we are glad to present the 2022 UNISCAPE lectures "Where Disciplines Meet". This year the theme is Landscape and Sustainability. The series will comprise seven live sessions, one per month from February to October, generally on Tuesdays at 17.30- 19.00 (CET): CALENDAR 2022 15th February | VIDEO REGISTRATION Ellen FETZER and Deni RUGGERI, University of Nurtingen-Geislingen and University of Maryland Community Scales. Toward a socially transformative pedagogy in design and … [Read more...] about UNISCAPE online Lecture Series 2022
Elected the new Executive Board of UNISCAPE and Director
On the occasion of the meeting of the General Assembly held in Florence on 24 October 2021, the new composition of the Executive Board of UNISCAPE has been elected for the next three years term (2021-2024). The Executive Board shall provide to run UNISCAPE. It is composed of the President, the Vice-Presidents and the Director (the Management Committee) and eight representatives appointed by the General Assembly among its own components. The new composition of the Executive Board for the period 2021-2024 is the follow: Daniela COLAFRANCESCHI, Full Professor of Landscape … [Read more...] about Elected the new Executive Board of UNISCAPE and Director
Manifesto on the Future of the European Landscape
UPDATE: PRESS RELEASE on the Presentation of the Manifesto in the Netherlands (18.05.22) Reframing the relationships between people and place 20 years ago, the European Landscape Convention (Florence 2000) saw the potential of a fully integrated landscape perspective to contribute to a more sustainable relationship between society and environment based on the recognition of mutual co-dependency. Since the year 2000, new challenges and opportunities have entered the scene. Concerns around climate change, food and energy security, wellbeing, public health (e.g., pandemics), … [Read more...] about Manifesto on the Future of the European Landscape
Challenges | Living Lab
Thematic roundtable | Cultivating continuity – one year after 23 October – 9.30 Has landscape, the most subjective and aesthetic model of Earth, being generated subjectively ‘in seeing’, secretly maintained and rendered visible, the intimate relationship between us and that terrestrial materiality that we ‘live from’ even if do not necessarily ‘live in’? Landscape ‘as perceived’ has persistently cultivated our inseparability from all existential as well as emotional components that life is made of, by generating this coexistence of nature and culture as it functions in ‘our eyes’. Between … [Read more...] about Challenges | Living Lab
Perceptions, Concepts and Visions for Terraced Landscapes
Landscape Atelier/ Cultivating continuity one year after 23 October 2021 – 15.30 Widening our horizon towards Bhutan 2022 applying the ELC and local knowledge Terraces are sources of cultural identity and a component of cultural heritage, which have been abandoned in many regions of Europe. They constitute a foundation for local people’s identity and a resource favourable to economic activity, especially for family farms and new collectives producing healthy food. From the point of view of the agro-industry terraced landscapes are marginal and unproductive, politically they are neglected … [Read more...] about Perceptions, Concepts and Visions for Terraced Landscapes