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Working Groups

Landscape Architects Without Border team in IFLA Asia Pacific Region and JLAU would like to inform you that we have donated 548,000 Japanese Yen to Mr. Ambassador Suka to support people in the Kingdom of Tonga. Also, we have delivered relief supplies worth 4,500,000 Japanese Yen to the country. Japan Landscape Union has been provided landscape skills for disaster reconstruction and natural ...

Management
Standing Committees

Dear friends, May marks the sixth month of my term. In the face of the pandemic, many meetings, activities and interactions were disrupted. However, all committees and working groups managed to maintain constant communication through various means, for which I would like to express my deepest gratitude. The IFLA-AAPME Award has been sustained thanks to Damian's relentless efforts. We are ...

Climate Change
Design
Opinion

The environmental impact of climate change on the world’s cities will be an enormous challenge to landscape architects. The atmosphere is warming, increasing the capacity to hold more water and causing more rainfall. Widespread flooding will be the result. The increase in air temperature is also leading to the melting of the ice caps. This will have the effect of rising sea levels. According to ...

Opinion

Technology that manages manmade disasters, is site specific. It is specific to geology and specific to geographies because of legal and financial frameworks. With climate change concerns in the forefront of development, the role of Landscape Architects is well documented. Various projects, especially those in countries with marginalized communities, appear to be more effective in accommodating and ...

Standing Committees

The 2022 Chengdu Park City International Garden Season and the 5th BFU International Garden-making Week in summer of 2022 are scheduled to be held in the summer of 2022. The Competition is designed to stimulate the creation in LA design and practical construction ability of students and industry practitioners in the spirit of craftsmen. The theme is “Park City, Dream Garden” echoing the slogan of ...

Planning

Summary of the ISOLA Conference 2022 The Indian Society of Landscape Architects ISOLA Conference was held on 11-13 February 2022. It was held in the virtual format. The Keynote by Kotchakorn Voraakhom elaborately explained the impact of landscapes beyond crafting spaces. Not only did her projects make a case for the ecological balance that the landscape architects has been striving to achieve but ...

Design

ASPECT Studios is recognized as one of the world's foremost public domain design practices, built from a team of Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, Strategists and City Makers. We have a team of professionals who are both design and people focused. We have created some of the most memorable public realm experiences around the world. A key component of these successes has been our understanding ...

Planning

To recap for yet another year, it is time to reminisce about the memories made as part of the IFLAAPR family. This year, YLAA has pushed forward with our inaugural event of a new initiative- a quarterly “International Hangout '' series! In a bid to connect, engage and spark conversations in the regional Landscape Architecture community, we kickstarted the series with 5 speakers from Singapore ...

Management
Planning

On March 11th, 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude nine earthquake and a huge tsunami. Having studied environmental design at university, I was shocked to see the devastated areas. Since then, it has been my goal to contribute to the recovery efforts in the disaster affected areas for the past 10 years.

Climate Change
Planning

Landscape architects are uniquely placed to lead and deliver climate-positive design solutions for our planet. We have the ability to sequester more greenhouse gases than our projects emit. AILA’s Climate Positive Design Working Group is developing a clear roadmap so Australian landscape architects can deliver climate-positive design outcomes. If you are a landscape architect wanting to address ...