Auckland prepares to host International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress 2013
With the theme 'Shared Wisdom in an Age of Change' the International Federation of Landscape Architects will be holding its 50th Congress in Auckland from 10th to 12th April 2013.
The Congress will focus on knowledge sharing around the increasingly challenging issues facing local and global environments in an age of considerable and frequently dramatic change. It will provoke thought as to how the landscape profession can and should participate in the shaping and management of the future.
Backed by Auckland City Council and being staged at SkyCity, the Congress program includes field trips to urban, rainforest and coastal landscapes.
The overarching theme of the Congress has been developed to engage delegates in presentations, discussion and debates that address the significant challenges facing communities, councils and governments. International as well as Australian and New Zealand based speakers will be assembled to raise the big issues and to question the place of landscape architectural practice in contributing to responses to these increasingly dramatic and frequent challenges.
Speakers include New Zealand landscape architects Garth Falconer and Rachel de Lambert; Australians Adrian McGregor (McGregor Coxall), Jim Sinatra (Sinatra Murphy); Chilean landscape architect Paula Villagra; and US landscape architect Thomas Woltz (Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects).
The social program includes a welcome function on 10th April hosted by Brown Environments and, the following day, a gala dinner at the Viaduct Events Centre.
For more information contact The Conference Company on +64 9 360 1240.
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