L-x 2025/26: Matters of Care, Matters of Land
Matters of Care, Matters of Land
Mark your calendars and join the L-x public lecture series for its next round.
L-x, International Lectures on Landscape Architecture, brings innovative, artistic, and independent approaches to Vienna, featuring leading voices from across Europe and exploring the multifaceted role of care in contemporary landscape architecture practice.
All lectures are public, no registration is needed.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
More information: l-x.at
Marcel Tröger / studio erde, Berlin-Zurich
3.12.2025, 19:30
- Location: Die HausWirtschaft, Bruno-Marek-Allee 5/1, 1020 Vienna
- Topic: Cultivating Care – Polyphonic Landscapes for the Anthropocene
- About the Lecture: l-x.at/lectures/cultivating-care-marcel-troeger-studio-erde/
Björn Bracke / kollektif landscape, Ghent
22.1.2026, 19:00
- Location: Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna
L-x 2025/26: Matters of Care, Matters of Land
L-x Landscape Lectures 2025 turns its attention to care, in a moment marked by profound socio-ecological urgency. It is a term often used lightly in landscape discourse, yet carrying a depth that both steadies and unsettles. Care, in all its forms, threads through the work of shaping landscapes: caring for places, caring with others, caring as a way of reading and responding to the worlds we co-inhabit. These are familiar gestures in everyday practice, yet far from simple. They reveal how every landscape depends on ongoing acts of maintenance, relation, and response.
Care is more than maintenance; it is an ethical practice of attention, a responsibility toward what is already there, and a commitment that unfolds over time. It invites us to ask who lives within this space, who tends it, who benefits from it, who remains unseen, and how landscapes and structures endure beyond their initial design. And yet care is never innocent. What feels protective can become controlling, well-meant gestures can overshadow the logics already existing in a place and attempts to support can drift toward exerting influence rather than listening.
Thinking and acting through the notion of care brings this complexity into focus. It reminds us that care is always plural, always processual, always made through relationships, between people, materials, infrastructures, species, and the surrounding world. Caring becomes a way of reading and composing with the existing, of attending to entanglements that are never fully resolved, and of imagining landscapes not as fixed objects but as ongoing, more-than-human collaborations.
This edition brings together two lectures from Zurich–Berlin and Ghent, each offering distinct yet interconnected approaches to thinking, acting, and practicing care in contemporary landscape architecture.
L-x, international lectures on Landscape Architecture, is a collaboration between the Institute of Landscape Architecture at BOKU University and ÖGLA, the Austrian Society for Landscape Architecture. The lecture series is made possible through the support of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.