IFLA 75: UNCOVERING HIDDEN HISTORIES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Sch of the Arts
Abstract
Through a series of online and in-person workshops and co-produced public facing activities and outputs this project will strengthen and extend the existing international Network of European Landscape Architecture Archives (NELA). The extended network will bring together academic institutions, archives and professional bodies for the first time. It will establish a new, innovative, international and multidisciplinary collaboration, raising awareness of archival materials and archives with significant holdings of materials related to landscape architecture. Landscape architecture archives preserve the profession's legacy, and this project will demonstrate how archiving and archival research contributes to a thorough understanding of the historical development of the built environment professions, and how archival documents can contribute to a better understanding of key contemporary issues relating to landscape and public space, such as the climate and biodiversity crises, rapid urbanization, migration, and spatial justice.
The network will use the history and legacy of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) as a case study project to assess the opportunities international networks hold in historic research and to communicate historic research to different audiences. Established in Cambridge in 1948, IFLA today represents 77 national associations and its mission to create 'globally sustainable and balanced living environments for the benefit of humanity worldwide', could not be more relevant. Its approaching 75th anniversary makes it timely to assess its contribution throughout the decades.
This proposed international network will create a collaboration between the main European archives with significant holdings of landscape architectural materials, and educators, researchers as well as third-party organisations.They will consolidate and disseminate the shared history of IFLA, and, through understanding its history, assess its role for the future. It is only through building and maintaining an international and interdisciplinary network that this objective can be achieved that respects the dynamics of a continuously changing landscape, an evolving profession and their histories. By building and contributing to a collective memory, the network will support landscape research and education, deepen the understanding of problems regarding current spatial interventions and increase insight into heritage issues, to both professionals and, indirectly, the general public, to be able to answer to the specific perspectives on and interests in managing current and future landscapes.
The network will use the history and legacy of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) as a case study project to assess the opportunities international networks hold in historic research and to communicate historic research to different audiences. Established in Cambridge in 1948, IFLA today represents 77 national associations and its mission to create 'globally sustainable and balanced living environments for the benefit of humanity worldwide', could not be more relevant. Its approaching 75th anniversary makes it timely to assess its contribution throughout the decades.
This proposed international network will create a collaboration between the main European archives with significant holdings of landscape architectural materials, and educators, researchers as well as third-party organisations.They will consolidate and disseminate the shared history of IFLA, and, through understanding its history, assess its role for the future. It is only through building and maintaining an international and interdisciplinary network that this objective can be achieved that respects the dynamics of a continuously changing landscape, an evolving profession and their histories. By building and contributing to a collective memory, the network will support landscape research and education, deepen the understanding of problems regarding current spatial interventions and increase insight into heritage issues, to both professionals and, indirectly, the general public, to be able to answer to the specific perspectives on and interests in managing current and future landscapes.
Organisations
| Description | IFLA 75: 1st workshop - Brussels |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was the 1st networking workshop if the IFLA 75: Uncovering Hidden Histories in Landscape Architecture project, held in CIVA, Brussels. The 2days long workshop contained specialist talks, an open lecture, site visits and time to interrogate the archival holdings relating to IFLA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IFLA 75: 2nd workshop, Reading |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was the 2nd workshop as part of the IFLA 75: Uncovering Hidden Histories in Landscape Architecture project held in Reading, UK. During the 2 days long workshop participants had time to interrogate the archival holdings at the Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, take part in visits to the museum and guided tours around the garden. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IFLA 75: 3rd workshop, As, Norway |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The third workshop of the IFLA 75 project was held in a hybrid format in As, in Norway at NMBU. The three days long workshop contained short presentations, roundtable discussions, oral history interviews and a public Symposium, titled 'Landscape Architects as the Environment's Healer: Before and Now'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.iflaworld.com/newsblog/landscape-architects-as-an-environments-healer-before-and-now#:~:... |
| Description | IFLA World Congress - IFLA 75: Histories and Networks, A shift in perspective |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Csepely-Knorr, Dr Krippner and Dr van Hellemondt organised a session at the 2023 IFLA World Congress, titled 'IFLA 75: Histories and Networks, A shift in perspective'. The session attracted papers that discussed the role of the Federation in Africa, China, Portugal and Belgium. The session was an online event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ifla2023.com |
| Description | IFLA75 - The History and Impact of a Professional Network: roundtable discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This roundtable discussion that considered the history and impact of IFLA was part of the official programme of the Federation's 75th anniversary celebrations, as well as part of the IFLA 75 network project. The discussion brought together academics, practitioners, archivists and researchers from 6 countries. the event was attended by 20 people in person at the Museum of English Life at the University of readings and was also live streamed. The recording was later added to IFLA's official Youtube Chanel and has had more than 450 views since. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7sn27Jr7VM |
| Description | Participation in session organised to celebrate International Women's Day 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to talk to celebrate International Women's Day at the University of Sheffield. The event 'Finding Women in the Archive' gave an opportunity to present research overlaps from my two research projects, Women of teh Welfare Landscape and IFLA 75. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |