IFLA 2023

Early bird tickets sold ut! Second-tier reduced fee tickets still available if you register by 31 August. Join us for the biggest hybrid event of the year for landscape architects, urban planners and advocates of sustainable built environments worldwide. More info and tickets 👉🏼 https://www.ifla2023.com/

We welcome Rotterdam-based architect and urban designer Eva Pfannes as a keynote speaker at , the world’s biggest hybrid event in landscape and urban planning happening this 28–30 September 2023:

Eva Pfannes co-founded the international design practice OOZE in 2003 with Sylvain Hartenberg, working across scales, from regional strategies to architecture and research, combining an elaborate understanding of natural, ecological processes, with technological expertise and deep insights in to the social-cultural behaviour of users of the built environment. The cyclic closed-loop processes found in nature are the foundation for each intervention and integrate the human scale within a comprehensive urban strategy.

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About the event:
IFLA23 is a hybrid on-site (Stockholm/Nairobi) and online event – open to landscape architects, planners and advocates of sustainable built environments worldwide!

This year's congress theme, Emergent Interaction, is a call for action: Bolder problem-solving designs are needed in the future as many habitats face increasingly dire effects of climate change, social inequality and biodiversity loss.

The IFLA World Congress offers a unique platform for borderless collaboration — to empower our professions’ range of competencies, novel approaches and potential to help address these urgent issues – globally and locally.

>> Explore the programme and book your ticket for on-site or online participation at www.ifla2023.com (link in bio)

Meet some of the prominent keynote speakers joining us at the world’s biggest hybrid event in landscape and urban planning this 28–30 September 2023.

At , we want to learn and be inspired by people who have left an impression and changed processes and ideas around urban development and landscape architecture. That is why we have invited a unique mix of skills, process leaders, activists and advocates across landscape architecture and urban planning who challenge our way of thinking and ’working.

This year's congress theme, Emergent Interaction, is a call for action: Bolder problem-solving designs are needed in the future as many habitats face increasingly dire effects of climate change, social inequality and biodiversity loss.

The IFLA World Congress offers a unique platform for borderless collaboration — to empower our professions’ range of competencies, novel approaches and potential to help address these urgent issues – globally and locally.

>> Explore the programme and book your ticket at www.ifla2023.com

Meet some of the prominent keynote speakers joining us at the world’s biggest hybrid event in landscape and urban planning 28–30 September 2023.

At , we want to learn and be inspired by people who have left an impression and changed processes and ideas around urban development and landscape architecture. That is why we have invited a unique mix of skills, process leaders, activists and advocates across landscape architecture and urban planning who challenge our way of thinking and ’working.

This year's congress theme, Emergent Interaction, is a call for action: Bolder problem-solving designs are needed in the future as many habitats face increasingly dire effects of climate change, social inequality and biodiversity loss.

The IFLA World Congress offers a unique platform for borderless collaboration — to empower our professions’ range of competencies, novel approaches and potential to help address these urgent issues – globally and locally.

>> Explore the programme and book your ticket at www.ifla2023.com

Meet Joy Mboya – joining us as a keynote speaker from Kenya at the biggest hybrid event in and of the year.

Mboya is the Executive Director of The GoDown Arts Centre, a long running multi-disciplinary non-profit focal point for artistic experimentation, cross-sector partnerships and creative collaborations in East Africa.

The GoDown is active in policy advocacy for a better working environment for Kenyan artists, and promotes community engagement and access to culture and the arts. Furthermore, The GoDown champions the role of culture in sustainable urban development and nation-making.

Currently, Joy Mboya is stewarding a unique, participatory and multi-stakeholder process to transform the arts centre into a civic-scale public-benefit cultural institution. The 25,000sqm capital project is a mixed-use development combining non-profit cultural programming and commercial activities.

Joy Mboya has received several awards and commendations for cultural leadership including the Head of State Commendation medal (2009) for her contribution to the development of Kenya’s creative economy and the Order of the Grand Warrior (2013) for outstanding cultural leadership. Mboya is also a Salzburg Seminars Fellow (2012) and Ford Foundation Fellow (2015). Most recently Mboya was the recipient of the Gildersleeve professorship in the Architecture Department, Barnard College- Columbia University, New York City (2020).

Photo: Barbara Minishi
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Join us this 28–30 September on-site in Stockholm and Nairobi — or online — for an inspiring mix of lectures, talks and activities at .

>>> Learn more / register at www.ifla2023.com

Meet Martí Franch, acclaimed founder of EMF landscape architecture – joining us in Stockholm as a keynote speaker at this year's hybrid event in September.

EMF is an interdisciplinary practice of independent experts in the field of urban and environmental design, working internationally. EMF explores hybrid ways between ecological systems and cultural constructs to inform projects and build up new realities.

EMF’s work has been internationally published and awarded with a LILA landezine international landscape award 2016-20, ASLA American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award 2012 , European Landscape Biennal – Rosa Barba Prize 2012, among others.

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Visit www.ifla2023.com to see the full list of speakers and register for the IFLA World Congress 2023 — the world's biggest hybrid event in landscape and urban planning happening on-site in Stockholm, Sweden and Nairobi, Kenya, as well as online — this 28-30 September.

Nola Urban Furniture, main sponsors of , on their support of the upcoming congress and the central theme of Emergent Interaction – stressing how bolder problem-solving designs are needed in the future as many habitats face increasingly dire effects of climate change, social inequality and biodiversity loss.

>>> Join us 28–30 September 2023 for an inspiring mix of lectures, talks and activities at the world’s biggest hybrid event in landscape and . Learn more / register at www.ifla2023.com

Upcoming Keynote lecture at : ”In a discussion between founders and shapers of Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) we explore the evolution of KDI’s transnational and transdisciplinary journey, from Kibera to Coachella, to Stockholm, and back again. We aim to draw conclusions about the potential of emergent and upstart landscape and design practices required ot attend to the urgent demands of social and environmental justice. We offer a specific set of strategies and experiences shaped by the maxim: make it until you make it.”

👉🏾 Join us this 28–30 September on-site in Stockholm and Nairobi — or online — for an inspiring mix of lectures, talks and activities at the world’s biggest hybrid event in and , tackling .

Get your ticket at www.ifla2023.com

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Photos: KDI

In his upcoming lecture at , Jens Linnet will explore the dynamic nature of landscape architecture, particularly in light of the pressing issues of climate crisis and social needs in urban areas. Drawing from a range of BOGL projects, he will highlight the potential of integrating circularity, biodiversity, and climate solutions, with the creation of unique and socially- engaging possibilities of landscape as a catalysts for positive change.

👉🏾 Join us this 28–30 September on-site in Stockholm and Nairobi — or online — for an inspiring mix of lectures, talks and activities at the world’s largest hybrid event in and . Get your ticket at www.ifla2023.com

👉🏾 Join us 28–30 September in Nairobi and Stockholm for an inspiring mix of lectures, talks and activities at the world’s biggest hybrid event in and . Get your ticket at www.ifla2023.com

Don't miss out on the Early Bird Registration. 4 Days to go.

Register here; https://www.ifla2023.com/



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Deadline for submissions extended to 14 April. Submit your design projects and abstracts and/or register for participation at www.ifla2023.com

Deadline approaching! The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1st April 2023 at 12.00 hours (CET). The IFLA World Congress 2023 seek submissions within four tracks:

♻️ Scientific or practice abstracts
♻️ Design projects
♻️ IFLA 75 anniversary ”IFLA 75: Histories and networks” abstracts
♻️ Open – If you would like to submit other material that does not fit in to the other categories

All submissions (except IFLA 75) shall be connected to one of the three subthemes of the congress: Leave no one behind, Act local, think global, Beyond borders. https://www.ifla2023.com/call-for-abstracts-projects/

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The theme of the 2023 IFLA World Congress, “Emergent interaction” aims to explore emerging forms of collective problem solving, networks of ideas and borderless strategies in order to find new solutions to the urgent issues of climate change, social inequality and biodiversity.

The IFLA World Congress 2023 seek submissions within four tracks:

♻️ Scientific or practice abstracts
♻️ Design projects
♻️ IFLA 75 anniversary ”IFLA 75: Histories and networks” abstracts
♻️ Open – If you would like to submit other material that does not fit in to the other categories

All submissions (except IFLA 75) shall be connected to one of the three subthemes of the congress: Leave no one behind, Act local, think global, Beyond borders

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1st April 2023 at 12.00 hours (CET). Read more: https://www.ifla2023.com/call-for-abstracts-projects/

Dear landscape architects and architects from all professions. After months of planning, writing, re-writing, programming, re-programming, building and re-building, we are proud to invite you to https://www.ifla2023.com/ 👏🏾

The IFLA 2023 World Congress is a collaboration between Architects Sweden and Architectural Association of Kenya. It’s the first one to take place on two continents simultaneously, the first IFLA World Congress in East Africa, an emerging interaction between architects all over the globe to avert the spiraling climate crisis. For three days we meet, talk, listen, discuss and say cheers! over drinks in many different languages, so make sure to mark the dates in your calendars
asap. ✅

But… On two continents at the same time? How does that work? What does it cost? Dates? Deadlines? Speakers? THEMES? SUBTHEMES? you may wonder. No worries, we got you. 🙂

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IFLA 2023 looks forward to welcoming you all in person to Stockholm and Nairobi but until then, see you in the digital realm!

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