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IFLA International Student Design Competition
4th January 2008
The theme for this year's IFLA International Student Design Competition is "Transforming With Water, The Way To Paradise?"
Throughout the world climate change is affecting the conditions of nature and local weather. Most people experience these changes as an imbalance between nature and the human environment.
This IFLA student competition seeks to stimulate the discussion about the specific contribution of landscape and urban planning and design to realise a new balance between nature and the human environment.
Climate change and its impact on nature and weather conditions is a world-wide phenomenon, but in each region the impact is different. Especially where it concerns changes in water quantities and qualities. What could be the new inspirational ways of planning, new ways of designing flow systems (of water, transport, energy, materials, information, etc.) and designing new spatial environments, that would create new environmental conditions? Are concepts such as ‘utopia’, ‘autarchy’ or ‘cradle to cradle’ still valuable?
Students of landscape architecture are invited to enter the competion and the prize-giving ceremony will take place at the IFLA Worldcongress 2008 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
The closing date for submissions is 1st May 2008.
