Student Design Competition 2010From Friday, 28 May 2010 00:00 To Sunday, 30 May 2010 00:00 CHINA Suzhou
The objective of this competition is to encourage and recognize superior student environmental design work that addresses and attempts to find solutions for the various issues and challenges that face future generations and the landscape architecture discipline in making the world a better place to live in. The competition invites submissions from teams of students in Landscape Architecture programs or other allied disciplines.
Following the theme of IFLA 47th World Congress to be held in Suzhou, China in May 2010,
Harmony and Prosperity: Traditional Inheritance and Sustainable Development, participants can submit entries related to the following sub-themes: 1. Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources Strategy, methodology, policies, laws and regulations dealing with protection of natural and cultural resources. 2. Eco-system Rehabilitation/Restoration/Development Developing and implementing plans to rehabilitate, restore or create functional ecology-based landscape systems, ranging from small scale projects within communities and villages, to larger scale projects, such as brown-fields, urban green spaces and urban-rural green space systems. 3. Landscape Planning and Design Contemporary planning processes and designs for landscape projects such as parks, plazas, institutions, campuses, residences, garden expos, sports and recreational facilities and waterfronts, etc. 4. Landscape Architectural Education Goals, guidelines, standards, courses, teaching methods and accreditation and links to licensing of practitioners. 5. Sustainable Landscape Construction and Technology Recent research and applied technology in sustainable practices for such projects as wetland treatment, water-saving irrigation, high-tech waterscape and lighting, rainwater collection, storm water management, and energy conservation, for both landscapes and structures, especially within parks. 6. Landscape Stewardship and Management Laws, regulations, standards and guidelines for landscape stewardship and management at local, national and international levels. 7. Landscape Planting Planting design and materials selection, and standards and guidelines for plant materials installation, and landscape maintenance and management.
Entries must specifically address the preservation, restoration or rehabilitation of urban historic sites in the countries in which students live and/or study, and demonstrate a creative approach and thinking in their projects, so that the value and spirit of the place are cherished and preserved, while satisfying the needs of modern society, such as accessibility, sustainability, etc. Entry submission deadline: 31 March 2010
Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture 9 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100835, China T: +86-(0)10-88 08 25 68 F: +86-(0)10-58 93 39 18
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