The program has been announced for the 11th International Landscape Biennial of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona which will explore landscape as a tool in engaging the climate change emergency through the theme “Climate change, again: City and Nature.”
The program, which includes the symposium, the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award and the International Landscape Schools Award - Banco Sabadell Foundation, will take place predominantly online this year, and is free and open to the public.
Running over six days, the symposium will feature eight invited speakers who will address the topic of landcape as a tool for combatting climate change. The speakers are:
- Martha Schwartz, landscape architect, urban planner, climate activist and professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. (USA);
- Colleen Mercer Clarke, landscape architect and coastal ecologist. (Canada);
- Karin Helms, landscaper, biologist and professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design; and president of IFLA Europe. (Norway);
- Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons, executive secretary of the European Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe. (Europe);
- Li Xiong, professor and vice president of Beijing Forestry University and member of the China Expert Committee on Landscape Architecture. (China); and
- Gilles Clément, horticultural engineer, landscape architect, writer, gardener and professor at the National Superior School of the Country of Versailles. (France)
The program also includes lectures by the designers of the 11 finalist projects in this year’s Rosa Barba International Landscape Award A and presentations by representatives of the eight finalist schools of the International Landscape Schools Award. This year, the landscape program at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a finalist in the schools category.
Saxhóll Crater Stairway in Iceland by Icelandic studio Landslag ehf was announced as the winner of the 10th Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize.
Image: courtesy 10th International Landscape Biennial of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona
The Rosa Barba International Landscape Award finalist projects are:
- The tropics and the built landscape: Urban centre of Medellin by AEU (Colombia);
- Central Park, Valencia by Gustafson Porter and Bowman (Spain);
- La Mexicana Park, Mexico City by Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU) and Víctor Márquez (VMA) (Mexico);
- Girona’s Shores, Girona by EMF- Estudi Martí Franch (Spain);
- Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, Bangkok by Landprocess (Thailand);
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (landscape architect) (USA);
- International Geodesign Collaboration, London London by Carl Steinitz for IGC core group and the current 140 university teams which are participants (UK);
- Schelde Quays in South Sint-Andries, Antwerp by PROAP - Estudos e Projectos de Arquitectura Paisagista Lda (Belgium);
- Ribeirinho Oriente Park, Lisbon by F|C - Arquitectura Paisagista (Portugal);
- Transformation of Yang Shupu Thermal Power Plant, Shanghai by Original Design Studio/TJAD (China); and
- Medellín River Parks, Medellin by Sebastian Monsalve Gomez and Juandavid Hoyos Taborda (Colombia)
The finalist university schools for the International Award for Landscape Schools - Banco Sabadell Foundation are Leibniz University Hannover (Germany); University of Technology Sydney (Australia); Harvard University Graduate School of Design (USA); City College of New York (USA); School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (Italy); Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (the Netherlands); TUDelft (the Netherlands); and Huazhong University Of Science And Technology (China).
The 11th International Landscape Biennial of Landscape Architecture of Barcelona will take place online from 27 September to 2 October 2021. To view the full program and register, go here.
