Hessen

Series of events "International Landscape Architecture" at DAM Frankfurt

• UI-Optionen: Sponsorenfeld
• Anzeige Text im Grid: Nein

"Challenges of sustainable urban development"

Efficient public spaces and sophisticated greenery have a decisive impact on the quality of life in cities. Landscape architecture offers solutions for increasingly complex requirements and framework conditions. As a cross-sectional discipline, it provides answers to socially relevant problems at different scales, from the region to the individual site. It combines aesthetic, social, ecological, technical and economic demands to create a design that is precisely tailored to the individual location.

Change is immanent in planning disciplines such as landscape architecture. What is new today is the complexity of the demands of a differentiated society on urban open spaces and the diversity of voices in participation processes. Climate change, the energy transition, the need for new mobility concepts, the integration of infrastructures in landscape design, housing and social cohesion are also topics to which landscape architecture has much to contribute.

Bernd Waldvogel

Last but not least, digitalisation is accompanied by a profound change that influences the way we communicate and is reflected in people's behaviour in public spaces. At the same time, digitalization is also changing planning and construction processes. The demand for complex solutions has not only increased in construction, but also in planning tools and communication possibilities. At the same time, the order situation for landscape architecture offices is better than ever before, and funding from national and international programmes is once again fuelling the spiral of the planning and construction boom. Many design firms now work locally and globally.

How is the profession reacting to the manifold changes in its working conditions and the demands on open spaces?

At the DAM event "International Landscape Architecture in the Context of Social Change and the Challenges of Sustainable Urban Development", four renowned landscape architects - Kamel Louafi, Berlin - Gert-Jan Wisse, Amsterdam - Dieter Grau, Überlingen and Tilman Latz, Kranzberg - will present their approaches and ideas. They report on their work experiences in a globally networked, changing world and on the answers that a design discipline can give to social changes.

• Latitude: 0
• Longitude: 0