Conference Mezi krajinami (Between Landscapes)
Regularly organised by the Department of Landscape Architecture since 2022, the conferences present contemporary approaches to the formation and perception of landscape in the Anthropocene from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference is chaired by Ing. Zuzana Štemberová.
The Department of Landscape Architecture is organising the scientific doctoral conferences Mezi krajinami (Between Landscapes) from 2022 onwards. The conferences, with international participation, aim to present contemporary doctoral research and enable students to get in touch with top experts. The aim is to create a dialogue and link research topics with perspectives from landscape architecture, architecture and urbanism, art production and theory, sociology, social geography and anthropology, and other fields.
Conference co-organisation
The Institute participates in a number of scientific conferences, in cooperation with major professional institutions, universities and the non-profit sector. It regularly co-organises Pojďme dělat město, Urbanscapes, Konferenci ke Dni krajiny and Politiky architektury. An exceptional event was the student conference Terény.
Pojďme dělat město
The conference Pojďme dělat město (nebo ves) focuses on specific examples of good practice in smaller towns and villages. The co-organiser for the Department of Landscape Architecture is Ing. arch. Adéla Ruprecht Chmelová..
Urbanscapes 2024
Two-day Urbanscapes Conference with the theme "Urban Landscape Adaptation as an Interdisciplinary Topic", the main organizer in 2024 was ČAKA (Section SZKT) in cooperation with the Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, CTU in Prague and the Department of Environmental Projects, OCP MHMP.
Landscape day Conference
Held annually to mark the launch of the Council of Europe Convention, it is open to all those involved in the planning, design or restoration of cultural landscapes. The main organiser is CAKA.
Politiky architektury
The conference is organized by the Department of Urbanism in cooperation with the Department of Landscape Architecture, FA CTU, in the series SVK Politics of Architecture and Building Culture of the Czech Republic.
Terény
The conference organized in 2023, in Prague CAMP. "No man's territory, places between places, peripheries within the city. Do territories without a clearly defined function have any benefit? Should we regulate them? And how to work with them?"
Eduscape: Landscape & climate change adaptation in education
Eduscape is an international project funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the EU, focusing on landscape in education for children and young people in times of ongoing climate change.
The Eduscape project is based on the idea that the landscape ("Landscape" in the broadest sense of the word) in its complexity can very well serve as a tool for teaching topics related to climate change adaptation and other topics requiring an interdisciplinary approach. This includes current societal challenges such as biodiversity loss, issues of social inclusion, the protection of cultural heritage and the preservation of landscape identity.
Landscape architecture institutes from three foreign universities contributed to the project outputs: In addition to the Institute of Landscape Architecture of the FA, CTU, the Czech Republic also involved the non-profit organization Město přátelské k dětem, z.s., which has long been involved in the participation and education of children in relation to the environment.
The methodological and working materials produced within the project are freely available to all interested parties on the website here:
DAAD project - cooperation with TU Berlin
The Department of Landscape Architecture, FA CTU in Prague and TU Berlin are collaborating on research on the topic "Identity of Places and Climate Change Adoption, Solutions and Limitations" within the international project DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
The DAAD grant (Application for Eastern Partnerships) runs from 2024 to 2026, with the partner university TU Berlin, Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. The project focuses on mobility of teachers and students, cooperation in the form of workshops, excursions and meetings. The result is not only to strengthen the cooperation, but also to publish a professional publication "Handbook for Historically Sensitive Places" and to organize a final international conference.
In the framework of the cooperation, an interdisciplinary workshop "Landscape Infrastructure in Historic Urban Environments" was held in June 2024. A discussion workshop was organized with the aim of creating a professional platform for research and collaboration between academics and researchers, focusing on the landscape structure of cities in relation to its identity, urban and historical values and on the environmental change induced by the needs of adaptation to climate change. Today, the topic is often viewed from a narrow perspective within a single discipline (conservation, design, transport infrastructure, vegetation...) - a comprehensive approach and expert discussion is lacking. The project aims to facilitate a discussion between experts from different fields of study, which will lead to a deeper understanding of a topic that has not yet been comprehensively understood through research.
Landscape Architecture Technology Manual
The Department of Landscape Architecture is creating a unique teaching material for students - the Manual of Landscape Architecture Technology.
The manual in Czech language can be downloaded here: zde.