Events

National Events

AILA’s events portfolio provides a chance for members to engage, learn, network and gain valuable CPD points. Events are run by AILA nationally and locally throughout the year. Other industry events of interest to our members are listed here as well.

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All AILA Events are subject to our Delegate Conditions . Please review these before completing your event registration.

2021 Festival of Landscape Architecture: Spectacle and Collapse

13 - 16 October 2021 | Perth

More and more of our society is drawn to experience and understand the world around us as spectacle – consumable and pleasurable, dramatic and superficial, speculative and temporary; image obsessed. At the same time, we are threatened with the collapse of ecosystems, critical to the survival and vitality of communities and cultures. Yet acting on this threat requires depth of systems thinking and practice and an appreciation of prolonged time, large scales and broad context. Landscape architects are skilled in these modes of thought and practice – how can we better move between image making and contextual reality? Is our focus on spectacle obscuring our vision and reducing our capacity to act in response to collapse?

As landscape architects, can we position ourselves to negotiate with and re-imagine a world at risk of collapse, to see through the spectacle and work beyond its limits?

Exploring Landscapes of Spectacle - Under the influence of globalisation, digitalisation, increasing mobility and social expectations, people are drawn to a perpetual search for new experiences: Instagram Landscapes; Wild Landscapes; and Future Landscapes.
Exploring Landscapes of Collapse - To understand, relinquish, restore, and reinvent are paramount to Landscape Architectural research and design process in order to explore new social, economic, cultural and ecological frameworks; Landscapes are regenerated to suit local demand, abandoned landscapes are reclaimed and connections to local systems are reinvented.

Lock in your annual leave for a trip to Perth for a full program including industry tours, National Landscape Architecture Awards, a two days of conferencing featuring renowned international and Australian landscape architects and some great networking opportunities.

More details to be released in June 2021. Contact events@aila.org.au for any questions in the meantime.

Past National Events

2020 AILA Land-E-Scape: Reset - Towards Healing

12 - 15 October |Online

AILA launched a virtual conference escape in 2020. Colleagues from across Australia and the globe were able to connect, engage and learn.

The four themes for this online event were:
Recuperation - Healing from event shock including sessions on bushfires, COVID19, Rebuilding Beirut and Landscape without borders
Repair - Healing the planet including sessions on climate change, urban green initiatives and blue meets green
Restore - Healing spaces that allow for enhanced connection and wellbeing including sessions on biophilic landscapes in education; healing gardens, designing for health (autism, Alzheimers) and war gardens
Reparation - Healing fractured relationships including sessions on gender equity, traditional knowledge, community engagement and opportunities for traditional owners in national parks.

2020 National Landscape Architecture Awards

Winners were announced 13 October - Watch Digital Announcement | View National Winners Gallery

The AILA Landscape Architecture Awards program provides a key vehicle for the promotion of the achievements and work of landscape architects in Australia. The Awards process is an opportunity for public and peer recognition of landscape architect’s work, and demonstrates to industry, business, government and the wider community the positive impact the profession has on Australian lives through the planning and design of the built and natural environments.

The AILA Landscape Architecture Awards program has two stages: the first is a Chapter program and the second is the National program. In 2020. QLD, WA, SA, NSW, VIC & ACT will be presenting an Awards program, with the winners at Chapter level proceeding to the National Awards.

2019 International Festival of Landscape Architecture
10 - 13 October | Melbourne

The 2019 edition of the festival, themed The Square and the Park, proposes to investigate the two landscape typologies of the title through the lens of contemporary landscape architectural concerns including design, politics, ecology and management. Make your way to Melbourne for a full program including industry tours, National Landscape Architecture Awards, a new gen student program, two days of conferencing featuring renowned international and Australian landscape architects, some great parties and the announcement of the Future Park Design Ideas Competition.

Visit the Festival website for all the details

2019 International Festival of Landscape Architecture
10 - 13 October 2019 | Melbourne

The 2019 edition of the festival, themed The Square and the Park, propose to investigate the two landscape typologies of the title through the lens of contemporary landscape architectural concerns including design, politics, ecology and management. Make your way to Melbourne for a full program including industry tours, National Landscape Architecture Awards, a new gen student program, two days of conferencing featuring renowned international and Australian landscape architects, some great parties and the announcement of the Future Park Design Ideas Competition. Visit the Festival website for all the details

2018 International Festival of Landscape Architecture

11-14 October 2018 - Gold Coast

The 2018 AILA International Festival of Landscape Architecture: The Expanding Field will promote the great diversity within landscape architecture practice and promote our critical role in tackling the contemporary challenges of our time. Join us on the Gold Coast for four days of talks from renowned international and Australian landscape architects, the 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards, a full student program and plenty of parties, tours and exhibitions. Find out more.

2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards

Thursday, 11 October, 2018, 6.00 - 10.00pm

As the first major event of the International Festival of Landscape Architecture, the 2018 National Landscape Architecture Awards brings together the industry to recognise and celebrate the achievements of landscape architects. Find out more.

2017 International Festival of Landscape Architecture: The 3rd City

12-15 October 2017 - Sydney

The 3rd City is the future city, a postulation to be mapped, tested and debated. The 2017 International Festival of Landscape Architecture welcomes you into the 3rd City, to explore its dimensions and imagine its landscape potential. The 3rd City will take us beyond post-industrial urbanisation to ask what is necessary and what is possible for future cities, their people, their ecologies, their territories and spaces. Join us in Sydney for a journey through the 3rd City, where a mix of keynote speakers and short presentations will challenge us to engage with the diverse facets of the emergent 3rd City. Read more.

2017 National Landscape Architecture Awards

Thursday, 12 October, 2017, 6:30 - 10:30pm

As the first major event of the International Festival of Landscape Architecture, the 2017 National Landscape Architecture Awards brings together the industry to recognise and celebrate the achievements of landscape architects. Register here.

2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture

The 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture: ~~Not~~ In My Backyard Conference was attended by a record number of 600 delegates. The broader Festival engaged with over 3,000 participants across 30 fringe events in Canberra ranging from KIDSCAPE playground in Haig Park, anthropoScene global short film competition, Parks Changing Australia exhibitions and #backyardexperiment pop-up park. Read more.

2016 National Landscape Architecture Awards

The recipients of the 2016 National Landscape Architecture Awards were announced and celebrated at a party at the National Arboretum with sweeping views across Canberra. Attracting over 300 entries in 2016, the AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards advance the profession of landscape architecture by fostering awareness and recognition of the work of AILA Registered Landscape Architects. View the winning projects.

Living Cities Workshop

Following the recent announcements by the Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt and the Prime Minister around greening cities, increasing tree canopy cover and green space AILA held a Living Cities Workshop in partnership with Engineers Australia on 10 February 2016 in Canberra. The aim was to facilitate organisations active in this pace to work together, leverage information and develop united policies to inform the government. Read more.

2015 Festival of Landscape Architecture: This Public Life
Melbourne (15-18 October 2015). This Public Life will shift the prevailing conversation from self-reflective to open, collaborative and critical. The Festival will encourage interdisciplinary awareness and enhance the public’s understanding of landscape architecture; combining landscape architects and speakers from diverse professions including the arts and sciences, both nationally and internationally.Read more.

2014 Festival of Landscape Architecture: Forecast
The inaugural Festival took place in Brisbane 16-18 October. Creative Directors Sharon Mackay and Di Snape devised a program of participatory events and experiences attended by over 400 people. Read more about Forecast or visit our Facebook account to view photos from the Festival.

Questions relating to national events should be directed to AILA's National Office.

AILA State & Territory Events

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Recorded AILA Events

Video recordings of various AILA CPD events around the country are available to view online and may count towards your annual CPD requirements. Recordings include local seminars, online courses and past Festival of Landscape Architecture sessions.

Recordings are free for AILA members to view - you will need to sign in to your Member Profile for access. Videos are available for non-members to view at the cost of $20.00 including GST per recording.

Click here to see the suite of videos available.

Industry Events

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