Reconnecting Landscape IFLA Europe Exhibition of Landscape Architecture Projects in Europe
Subject
In this edition of the exhibition, we will present projects that shape and restore connections within landscapes. We are looking for design examples which illustrate how can be rebuilt at cultural, social and semantic levels. These can be large-scale linear park systems, or targeted, small-scale interventions acting as keystones crucial for reconnecting fragmented networks.
A landscape-oriented approach to space allows for integration and reconnection in the broadest sense – cultural, natural, and semantic. From this perspective, landscape architecture becomes a way of design by which the landscape itself acts as an organising mechanism – structuring space in a broad and multi-layered manner.
We kindly invite you to share with us examples of completed public-space projects that play a significant role as connective elements — spaces that restore lost links or create new ones.
We are interested in community-level connections explored in projects that carry meaning and create op-portunities for engaging with the past and the present while accounting for the future change – ones that reflect identity and tradition, rediscover them and connect them with the contemporary world. We are searching for places that encourage dialogue and encounters — both among people and between people and nature. Spaces should shape the framework of everyday life, fostering exchange and interaction across cultures and age groups.
By bringing together these multidimensional aspects, the exhibition will highlight the remarkable complex-ity of landscape and demonstrate its capacity to serve as an ideal medium for a rich, layered, connecting and evolving narrative.
Schedule (October 2025 – August 2026) GA Riga 02 – 06 September 2026
Action Deadline
GA _ Riga 02-06.09.2026
Vacation time 08. 2026
Printing shipment to Riga 07.2026
Last correction 07.2026
Boards verification 06. 2026
Catalogue verification 06. 2026
Preparing the PDF posters and Catalogue 04. 2026 – 06. 2026
Sending material by NAs to the Secretariat 03. 2026
Time for the NA for preparing the material 12.2025-03.2026
2nd e-mail announcement with the topic and technical data 11/12.2025
1st announcement during the GA 10.2025
Please keep in mind that the General Assembly will take place earlier this year, so everything needs to be finalized before the summer holidays.
Technical requirements for submitted project:
1. Project data: country, title, author, exact address, area, investor (client), main contractor, budget, completion year.
2. Project description in English, up to 1200 characters (including spaces)
3. Five photos of each project ( dimensions: shorter side min 2500 PX; resolution: 300 ppi) with credentials of the author of the photo/ Among them, one photo indicated as a representative picture
4. Simple site plan or diagram that will be placed on the board in a similar way as illustrated below.
We would like to kindly ask the National Associations to pay attention to the quality of the selected projects as well as the quality of the graphic material. Photographs should be taken by professional photographers so that they reflect the character of the place created and display high graphic and technical quality.
The method of delivering the materials
All data should be uploaded as a separate file to the IFLA Europe virtual drive created by the Secretariat: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ocQwogboShDxFGPdS6HIy7BMoqq6deeQ?usp=sharing
Folder Structure of the files is attached to this message as a ZIP folder. Pay attention to the consent form for publishing your uploaded photos (included in the ZIP folder). Without this consent, the submitted materials cannot be presented at the exhibition. In the case of lack of access to the virtual drive, the entire folder can be sent to IFLA Europe Secretariat at: [email protected].
Below are sample boards from the 2022 edition: Reconsidering Nature. Previous edition website can be found here: https://iflaeurope.eu/index.php/site/exhibition-projects
