EFLA Regional Congress

Parallel sessions Day 2

DAY 2: GAPS IN URBAN LIFE - NEW LIVES

Parallel Session 9
Landscapes of Transformation: Design for Everyone
Schedule: 13:30 – 14:25
Room: Grande 1

Moderator: Francesco De Luca, Ph.D.
Tallinn University of Technology – Tartu College
ITA Project
Estonia/Italy

Description:
Developing a design that takes into consideration needs and expectations of different individuals is critical to a successful project. Integration of Universal Design (or ‘Design for All’) concepts during the early stages of a project helps to create environments with equal opportunities regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, cultural background and capabilities.
However, the application of those concepts in the outdoor environments has been slower to gain importance in the public’s perception and at the political level. We also know that the natural environment plays an important role in improving health, mental and physical strengths, promoting socialization among different strata of the society and improving the quality of life for everyone.
We are all connected with nature. None of us can survive if we exclude nature from our lives.Therefore, this session aims to bring experts dealing with Landscape that have successfully introduced Universal Design concepts into their work (from theories
to design), contributing to important transformations at the social and political level.

Oral Presentations:
13:30 - 13:45
1. Alissa North (CA): Landscape frameworks: community evolution  through Public space
13:45 - 14:00
2. Rana Al-matarneh (JO): Gated communities: re-shaping the socio-spatial urban cityscape
14:00 - 14:15
Gulsen Guler (TR): Character redefinition for derelict landscapes, a proposal for Istanbul Metropolitan Area Black Sea quarries
14:15-14:25
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 10
Different Faces for Different Places: Multi-diversity in Urban Context
Schedule: 13:30 – 14:25
Room: Grande 2

Moderator: Gunta Lukstina
University of Latvia
Latvia

Description:
Urban environments evolved to a multiculturalism entourage due to the liberty of movement, easy access to
information and the tendency to seek for better life opportunities. Cities faced in the past an identity crisis and it’s something to be noticed once again.
At present, societies seem to be polarized. On one hand society groups are older, better educated and more environmentally aware, but on the other hand the diversity of ethnic groups with different social behavior and cultural backgrounds is increasing. These groups have different values and attitudes. But most people have a need to access and enjoy different types of landscape at different times and for different purposes.
The relationship between society, land and landscape is more complex than thought. Attitudes are reflected in behaviour and recreational activity, as well as in expressed preferences.
This session invites professionals from all areas to reflect about how ethnic association shapes urban identity, how ideal landscape is forged through a process directed by individuals and institutions in a specific cultural context, and how design and planning can be used to combat social discrimination and conflict due to age, poverty, culture, and ethnic minority statu

Oral Presentations:
13:30 - 13:45
1. Kerli Irbo (EE) : Play with the city: breaking the boundaries of the urban space. Case study of Tartu
13:45 - 14:00
2. Ana Nikezic (RS): Kosutnjak, landscape as a living system
14:00 - 14:15
3. Maria-Valerie Schegk (DE): Planning for integration in urban parks: A European search for best practice in Ghent and Manchester
14:15-14:25
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 11
From teaching to practice: new research and methodologies in Landscape Architecture
Schedule: 13:30 – 14:25
Room: Grande 3

Moderator: Maria Matos Silva
Technical University of Lisbon – Faculty of Architecture
Portugal

Description:
Education in Landscape Architecture has changed drastically over the last decades. As a dynamic process, education requires continuous improvements through research, development and innovation. Based on these aspects, teaching methods can become more vital.
Those events are crucial if landscape architecture seeks to remain relevant and play a leading role in protecting and developing the physical, social, economic and cultural aspects of our landscapes. Through research and implementation of new methodologies, the quality of pedagogical techniques and curricula can better serve the needs of today’s students.
Speakers are invited to address these and other questions: How can universities prepare future landscape architects to address these challenges? What new approaches to teaching and learning are effective in landscape architecture? What has recently changed to improve the quality of curricula?
This session aims to inspire reflection over education practice, critique of contemporary educational practices, and recent achievements and proposals for more updated and influential educational methods.

Oral Presentations:
1. 13:30 - 13:45
Rossella Salerno (IT): Filling the urban landscape gaps by a patchwork of open space. A proposal for dispersed city
13:45 - 14:00
2. David Turčáni (SK): Utilization of urban landscape visual quality assessment in green structure plan
14:00 - 14:15
3. Banu O. Kurtaslan (TR): Leadership in environmental stewardship through service learning
14:15 - 14:25
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 12
Transforming Communities: Social Learning and Community Engagement
Schedule: 14:25 – 15:35
Room: Grande 1

Moderator: Prof. Fritz Auweck
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
Germany

Description:
Over the past decades, a wide range of methods has been established in different countries concerning community planning and engagement. These methods gave a new output towards the involvement in planning and management of the environment at the community, political and private levels. It is widely accepted that this is the only way people will create desirable surroundings, ensuring a safer, stronger, healthier and more sustainable community; as well as feeling more attached to an environment they had helped to create.
But how should we approach community planning? How can local people best involve themselves in the complex world of architecture, landscape planning and urban design? Which role is best for landscape architects? How can professionals best build on local knowledge and resources? How can we create and promote cooperation between communities, governmental authorities, and private and non-profit organizations?
This session aims to present, synthesize and discuss actual and future challenges in our profession deeply influenced by civil initiative, social wellness and community planning.

Oral Presentations:
14:25 - 14:40
1. Gintaras Stauskis (LT): Strengthening local communities by involvement into complex renovation of residential environment
14:40 - 14:55
2. Alice Mathers (UK): Evolving involvement: exploring the devolution effect on patterns of UK community involvement in urban green space
14:55 - 15:10
3. Inga Urbonaite (LT): Community involvement into regeneration of devastated urban areas of Vilnius city
15:10 - 15:25
Nausica Pezzoni (IT): The deconstruction and disruption in the representation of the city: migrants mapping Milan (via Skype
15:25 - 15:35
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 13
Changing disciplines, Changing landscapes: Communication as a gap
Schedule: 14:25 – 15:35
Room: Grande 2

Moderator: Marina Cervera de Medina
European Federation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA) Secretary General
Spain

Description:
Landscape architecture has always maintained a commitment to cooperating with related disciplines that seek to shape the built and natural environment. The enormous complexity of current problems in environmental design makes unprejudiced cooperation with related disciplines urgently necessary.
By working with other professions we expand our ability to better envision the decisions we make. At the same time, interdisciplinary work is an opportunity to expand understanding about the potential role that landscape architects could play in a variety of project types.
While collaboration is not necessarily easy, issues such as lack of communication between different professionals and between governmental agencies can compromise creative solutions and jeopardize the quality of urban life. Scarcely any competitions for urban development or landscape architecture projects are announced today without requiring interdisciplinary cooperation.
Speakers will address these and other questions: How can we encourage collaboration between professionals? Which solutions are better able to bring interdisciplinary teams to work together? What role does the landscape architect play on these teams? Is there a need to define (or re-define) a new language that connects government decision-makers with the professionals of space-shaping?

Oral Presentations:
14:25 - 14:40
1. Zenia Kotval (EE/US): The gap between planning practice and theory: intuitive or irrelevant?
14:40 - 14:55
2. Helena Gutmane (LT): Public space as a tool for social revival: experiencing interdisciplinary collaboration. Case of intensive training program “RADI RIGU!”
14:55 - 15:10
3. Rana Al-matarneh (JO): Gated communities, commodification of the public space: the case of the GCR
15:10 - 15:25
Jekaterina Balicka (EE/LV): Temporary use of urban space in the Baltic context: filling the gap between future and past
15:25 - 15:35
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 14
Reading in between the gaps: philosophy and landscape
Schedule: 14:25 – 15:35
Room: Grande 3

Moderator: Andreja Tutundžić
European Federation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA) – Vice-President for Education
Serbia

Description:
Landscape as an object of philosophical reflection and interpretation can be considered as one of the newer trends of the philosophy of nature. Currently, landscape refers to a totality, an interaction system of multiple natural processes, functioning as both a reflection space as well as a foundation for all ways of life and a status of development for human communities.
By uniting with landscape architecture, the philosophy of nature can free itself from traditional perspectives, judgments and representations to adopt a concrete and clear position.
This session aims to explore the current as well as emerging philosophies, theories and approaches in landscape architecture. Abstracts should explore the influence, use and rich diversity of these philosophies, theories and approaches which contribute to the further enrichment of landscape architecture theory.

Oral Presentations:
14:25 - 14:40
1. Iñaki Zoilo (PT): Modular landscapes in arid climates. Redefining sustainability in public space
14:40 - 14:55
2. Liina Einla (EE): The notion of Heterotopia in the practice of Landscape Architecture
14:55 - 15:10
3. Daniela Perrotti (FR/IT): Landscape (as) infrastructure: filling the gap between aesthetic-philosophical approaches and urban design strategies
15:10 - 15:25
Etienne Turpin (US): Speculative landscapes: towards a philosophy of the Anthropocene contributors
15:25-15:35
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 15
Healthy cities, healthy lives: legislation, policies and effective governance
Schedule: 16:05 – 17:15
Room: Grande 1

Moderator: Nigel Thorne
European Federation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA) - President
United Kingdom

Description:
More than half of the world population lives in urban areas. While cities fight to build strategies that address the impacts of growth, climate change and other environmental problems, one of the most important threats of all remains the quality of urban health.
The way in which urban areas are planned shapes people’s life choices and has a strong influence on health outcomes. Rapid, unplanned urbanization has exceeded the ability of local governments to build essential infrastructure and enforce legislation that makes life in cities safer and healthier.
Cities can be healthy for all people and we must plan and design our cities to promote health. This can be realized by considering the impact on health of all urban policies giving special attention to reducing inequities between city inhabitants. Local governments have fundamental importance in taking a leadership role in combining the talents and power of all sectors.
This session aims to focus on speakers who have been involved with legislation and policies at local, regional or national governments to promote healthier cities. We invite papers that (1) share successful experiences from different countries, (2) identify solutions to problems and the best strategies found to develop better legislation, and (3) generate effective policy solutions boost governance leadership and cooperation.

Oral Presentations:
16:05 - 16:20
1. Fani Vavili-Tsinika (GR): Teaching for Heterotopias and a healthy city
16:20 - 16:35
2. Han Xili (CN): Sharing open space around to promote children’s physical activity in ‘urban village’ neighborhood in Beijing
16:35 - 16:50
3. Charlene LeBleu (US): Predicting and mitigating the effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change in urbanizing coastal ecosystems
16:50 - 17:05
4. Kadri Maikov (EE): Landscape characteristics in journeys as a new method in Landscape architecture
17:05-17:15
Questions and Open Debate

Parallel Session 16
Regional planning, infrastructures performance and mobility
Schedule: 16:05 – 17:15
Room: Grande 2

Moderator: Peep Moorast
Tallinn City Government
Estonia

Description:
Recent decades were marked by rapid and unplanned urban sprawl; the rapid growth of cities now blurs the limits between urban and rural environments. As a result we have vast urbanized territories, where mobility needs have increased substantially as a consequence of economic and social development.
The dispersion of residential areas and decentralization of activities and services increases the need for functional and planned mobility. For that infrastructure plays an important role in sustaining our economy and quality of life; residents must be able to travel quickly and easily around metropolitan regions so they can reach a wide variety of opportunities.
However, the difficulty experienced through time to relate concepts of mobility, infrastructures performance and urban and regional planning, contributed to the production of cities economical and environmentally unsustainable.
Regional planning should be seen as an opportunity for local governments and transit agencies to work together and coordinate mobility with local investments in infrastructure, overseeing a future where high quality living and working environments co-exist.
This session will present best practice, highlighting examples of cooperation between professionals, government and state agencies.
Abstracts should discuss different approaches for landscape planning as well as offer an international exchange experiences between practice and research.

Oral Presentations:
16:05 - 16:20
1. Agnieszka Jaszczak (PL): Planning transportation infrastructure in the context of road safety and landscape management
16:20 - 16:35
2. Damiano Cerrone and Panu Lehtovuori (EE): CONTOUR. Consolidate ownership negotiation tool for urban restriction. The case of Põhjaväil
16:35 - 16:50
3. Urszula Forczek-Brataniec (PL): Visual gaps in landscape
16:50 - 17:05
4. Tiago Carvalho (PT): The moving city: Lisbon’s war on itself
17:05-17:15
Questions and Open Debate

Poster Session 2 [13:30 – 14:25] Corridor, Lobby
Gaps in Urban Life – New Lives

1. Indra Purs (LV): Rhythmanalysis of the Visual Airscape Elements in the Context of Seasonal Change
2. Maria da Conceição Freire (PT): Towards a different approach in teaching landscape design 
3. Soňa Keresztesová (SK): Who really creates public spaces in Slovakia? Gaps in cooperation of landscape architects with citizens
4. Yehoshua Gutman (IS): "Reality Lab" - The corporate experience

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