X-LArch 3 2009

X-LArch III  2009

April 29 – May 1, 2009

Vienna, Austria

Key-note speakers:

Marc Treib (Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Helen Armstrong (Professor-Emerita of Landscape Architecture, Queensland, University of Technology; Adjunct-Professor, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, AUS)

In the year of 2008, 50% of the people worldwide are living in cities, and this number is yet to increase. Globally the structures of landscapes and settlements are converging - resulting in undistinguishable types of urbanity. This has given rise to the prominence of ‘landscape’ in the search for sustainable development.

The production of landscape has always been based on a construct of ideas. As ideas shift along societal changes, the meaning of landscape is subject to constant mutation.  Designed and built landscapes function as a catalogue of interpretations of nature, of society, of economics, of cultures.

What role can landscape play to restructure our decision and design-processes, our environment and our perception?

41 Scholars from all over the world presented their thoughts and findings.

Conference Programme:
The schedule and title of the conference's presentations.
Sessions_presentations.pdf

Conference Publication:
If you are interested in the presentations given at the conference check out the Conference Proceedings.

Download Conference Proceedings.pdf

Conference Organisers:
The conference was organized by ILA Institute of Landscape Architecture at the Austrian University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna and ÖGLA Österreichische Gesellschaft für Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftsarchitektur, the Austrian Society for Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture.

Conference Sponsors:
We want to thank our Sponsors who made this event possible:

Conference Documentation:
For an impression of the conference and its events see our collected pictures:
Pictures.pdf

Find here Mr. Domany's presentation, which unfortunately could not be included in the conference proceedings: Domany Landscape Conference.pdf