Chile hosts IFLA Regional Conference of the Americas

Landscape Architecture and Geography.

Chile, a territory of confines:

from ice to desert, from mountains to sea.

The Submission of Abstracts is now closed

A discount on the conference fee is available until June 15

Santiago (Chile). September 2-4, 2010.

The regional conference for the Americas is organized by the Chilean Institute of Landscape Architects, member of the IFLA, as one of IFLA’s regular activities. All professionals, researchers, and postgraduate students involved in the production, thinking, and design of landscapes (landscape architects, architects, urban designers, geographers, historians, and public officers, among others) are invited to participate in the conference with paper proposals that address the conference theme. The conference theme seeks to provide a window not only for a broad investigation of landscape design aspects, but also for sharing professional and academic knowledge and expertise in the ways of inhabiting it. As a result, landscape architecture will be understood as the discipline resulting from the relationship between inhabited landscape, geography, and urban space.

THEME

In emerging cultures such as those in South America, where the majority of cities are still a work in progress and a combination of urban and rural spaces, geography is not merely a background, but a key aspect of the landscape. In places characterized by geographical accidents, extreme weather, and volcanic or tectonic activities, resulting landscapes become the main public space. In this context, landscape is a cultural phenomenon, a place for recreation, to wander, for festivities, and vacations. The conference will focus on landscape architecture as a discipline cherishing and protecting the geographical identity of a place. But, at the same time, it will critically address landscape transformation initiatives, which have brought an unprecedented level of challenges in planning, urban governance, cultural and social structure, and historic preservation, among others.

SUB-THEMES

Proposals will preferably address one or more of the following sub-themes:

• Landscape and Heritage [projects for the use, protection, restoration, and/or conservation of heritage sites, routes, etc.];

• Landscape and Natural Environment [wild areas, geological sites, wetlands, forests, dunes, ecological corridors, watercourses, mountain streams, coastal borders, etc.];

• Cultural Landscapes [landscape history, main elements in the landscape, archeology, identity, etc.];

• Productive Landscapes [productive routes, productive sites – wine, tobacco, agriculture, mining, etc.];

• Landscape and Human Settlements [local patterns of settlement in different territories, management of public space, citizen action, landscape planning, etc.];

• Landscape and Tourism [sustainable tourism, routes and circuits, etc.];

• Landscape and Infrastructure [highways, port infrastructure, public squares, airports, industrial sites, landfills, etc.];

• Landscape and Education [seminars, workshops, studios, representation techniques, etc.];

• Landscape and Ecology [ecological and natural corridors, basins, biodiversity, global warming, pollution, carbon emission, environmental planning and impact, sustainability, etc.];

• Landscape Transformation [rehabilitation, restoration, and rethinking of wastelands and abandoned sites, etc.].

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including footnotes) and authors must indicate one or more conference sub-themes addressed by their paper (see previous section). A short biographical statement of no more than 200 words needs to be submitted with the abstracts. Please include basic contact information (e-mail, telephone, fax). All abstracts will be refereed by the same advisory committee. Accepted abstracts will be published on the conference website. Proposals can be submitted in Spanish or English.

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