Landscape architecture is challenged by the need to engage in continuous adaptation and respond to the implications of climate change and population growth. It has become increasingly evident that continuing to implement present design forms and approaches is no longer appropriate to meeting these challenges.

The built environment design professions require a multitude of approaches and scales of engagement in order to present society with future design scenarios. There is an urgent need to seek out new ways of responding to the effects of environmental and social change on urban and landscape forms.

The 2009 AILA national conference will re-examine the role of landscape architects in responding to these needs and explore the profession’s engagement in developing alternative community perspectives of their real and imagined landscapes.

The conference sessions and speakers will explore the proposition that landscape architects should lead positive adaptation through three major channels of activity that represent both the strengths of and the challenges to the profession:

• Through Collaboration: A collaborative, integrated approach to design thinking.

• Through Practice: Implementing these ideas through alternative and progressive forms of practice.

• Through Engagement: Influencing the community through political and community engagement.

a preliminary
2009 conference
notice

more details
to follow

put these dates
in your diary
melbourne
7 - 9 May 2009

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for updates
(this update 25 Jan 08)

conference details
subject to changes

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