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The Winter issue of Landscapes | Paysages is edited by students which is why students, educators and researchers are invited to submit their ideas, draft articles, or abstract for the Winter 2024 issue. Their ideas should be built around the question - what does the future of landscape architecture education look like within the context of these three themes - education, innovation and advocacy Have an idea? Send your pitch ideas by July 31 to: qwan02@uoguelph.ca

Reminder about the upcoming deadline to apply for the LAF Research Grant in Honor of Deb Mitchell. This $25,000 opportunity funds research relevant to the professional practice of landscape architecture. At least one of the Principal Investigators must be trained as a landscape architect and currently engaged in the field. Preference is given to research teams that represent partnerships between professional practice and academic/research institutions. Proposed projects must start in summer or fall of 2025 and be completed in 12- to 18-months. Past recipients' projects have addressed: Ethical materials sourcing, visualizing thermal disparities, physical features of intergenerational communities, rural resilience, and pollutants in landscapes adjacent to highways. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gryfu8Dd

❗❗❗ Reminder and new opportunity for idlers and proponents of de-acceleration Martina Artmann and the other colleagues in the editorial team of the book project 📗 "Urban human-nature partnerships – From the Anthropocene to the Ecocene" let you know: 🗨 We are deeply touched by the positive resonance to our book project on urban human-nature partnerships. Already now, we got so many inspiring contributions. Big thanks to all of you submitting your ideas and spreading our call. 🙏 🐌 Since human-nature partnerships are nourished by idleness, de-acceleration and intuition, we decided to extend the deadline for submission by ➡ 30th September ⬅ . 🦋 Besides your academic contributions, we are looking forward to further submissions from non-academics sharing, for instance, arts, spiritual or embodied practices nourishing our material and immaterial entanglement with life in cities and beyond. 🗨 So seize the opportunity and submit your proposal! ⌛ New and final submission deadline: 30 September 2024 #HumanNatureResonance #LivableFuture #SustainabilityTransition More information 👇🏻

Open Call: Staying with Modernity? (Dis)Entangling Coloniality and Architecture Until recently, modernity and modernism stood for positive things: progress, enlightenment, emancipation and the promise of universal rights. Today, they are associated with colonial practices of exploitation, extraction and oppression. Should we then move beyond modernity and modernism, or do we stay with them and their problems? The 11th edition of the annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre (JBSC) seeks to unravel the entanglements between modernity, coloniality and architecture, in the context of the construction of welfare states, open societies and global production systems. With this open call, the JBSC invites contributions to this year’s conference and welcomes proposals from academics and practitioners alike. Learn more via this link: https://lnkd.in/evUsQsPg

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3rd event of International Lectures cycle   “Visualizing and Defending Values in Architectural Heritage Changes”  Scientific Chairs: Dr. Raffaella De Marco, PD. Dr. Izabella Parowicz  Organizing Secretariat: Arch. Rola Abu Hilal  Register here: https://lnkd.in/dv5QCfyj   The cycle of lectures intends to address issues on the cultural, social, economic, and archaeological values associated with Architectural Heritage, in particular highlighting the application of digital technologies, from documentation to 3D representation, and the opportunities for dissemination and interaction through #narrativedigitalenvironments. The study theme defines a dynamic framework for in-depth studies and reflections on Cultural Heritage, where history and community contribute to writing a changing vision between #memory and #actuality. In this way, the value and significance of #ArchitecturalHeritage can be consciously directed towards its understanding, sharing and protection by the civil society. The third event is organised on 3 panels: “#Spirituality”, “#Conditionality”, “#Aesthetics”, and features international professors and researchers from Italy, Portugal, Poland, Malta, Cyprus and Iraq. Among the presented research, international projects, research activities and innovative actions between academic and professional sectors for the valorisation and interdisciplinary address of Architectural Heritage protection.    For more information about MOEBHIOS project and the lecture cycle:  https://lnkd.in/dkRCQJCk

Book: Urban Informality and the Built Environment; infrastructure, exchange and image ..."The main argument of the proposed volume is the need to re-centre the study of informality away from state-centric approaches that define the informal vis-à-vis the state. With a focus on the built environment, this volume puts forward considerations of materiality, form, function and meaning, shifting attention to the relational in informal spaces and embracing the varying components of the urban infrastructure." Alena Ledeneva and Peter Zusi, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL https://lnkd.in/dJ6ukkPY

What is urban densification? Rather than understanding it as a technocratic exercise and/or a target to achieve urban sustainability, I'd like to conceptualize it as a set of social relations that are connected to territories, property regimes and planning regulations or what Henri Lefebvre called "abstract space". I've written a paper about this theoretical approach and underlined that with a lot of empirical material from the Alpenrheintal/Alpine Rhine Valley! My hope is that this approach helps us to better understand how real estate markets in different contexts work in the fuzzy space between public and private spheres. The paper just got published in the journal "Urban Geography" and I'd like to thank Lindsay Blair Howe and Samuel Mössner for their support during the development of this paper. Furthermore, the research promotion fund of the Universität Liechtenstein made all this research possible in the first place! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dbJrPK9e

'Architectural aptitude tests and course performance - A case study'. A paper with Ar. Sudheendra Yalavigi as co-author, published in Architectural Science Review, published by the University of Sydney.