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The LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum

What makes the LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum different from other European landscape events is the focus on dialogue, debate and discourse. It provides a unique opportunity to interact creatively with colleagues from a range of landscape disciplines in informal workshop and field visit settings. The aim is to create stimulating environment to promote the generation of both new teaching ideas and projects, for research and for collaboration between theory and practice. A joint ISBN publication will result from the meeting, to which all participants will contribute. It is intended to include contributions to the poster exhibition in this publication as well. The LE:NOTRE Institute is currently testing the possibility of organizing a peer review of this publication.

Become an agent of transdisciplinary landscape transformation

We welcome an interdisciplinary audience of academics, professionals, policy makers, students, community activists and nonprofits to join us as we discuss the landscape transformations needed to support sustainable efforts toward greater sustainability, public health, economic development, fine arts, historic preservation, communications, and many more. Addressing the wicked problems of our time requires extensive collaboration across paradigms, epistemologies, and knowledge, and a shared commitment to bridge the gap between academia and civil society to envision democratic landscape transformations across scales and geographies

Participants’ benefits:

International and local keynote speakers, dialogue with local experts
Exploration of the local landscapes
Interdisciplinary and international collaboration and networking opportunities
Participation in the poster exhibition
Contribution to a joint ISBN publication

>>> find publications of past events here

Target Groups

Target groups include:

researchers and practitioners from landscape architecture and related disciplines (including architecture, arts, geography, agricultural sciences, dendrology, economics, environmental psychology, forestry, hydrology and water management, IT, archaeology, ecology, regional planning, social anthropology, sociology, tourism, urban design, etc.
academics and educators involved in teaching and research from many different disciplinary perspectives
members of public institutions or authorities
NGOs and local activist groups
Masters and PhD students from various disciplines

The Forum aims to provide a discussion platform for a wide range of landscape issues at a European and global level.

The LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum was conceived as a response to the common criticism of almost all landscape conferences, namely that there is never enough time for discussion and that most of the time is spent sitting listening to presentations in seminar rooms. The Forum seeks to answers these charges by placing discussion and collaborative working at the center of each event, and to organise this around field visits to look at and learn about local landscape issues.

Antalya, on the Turkish Mediterranean coast, was the location of the first Forum in April 2012, followed by Rome in 2013, Sarajevo 2014, Bucharest 2015, Paphos/Cyprus 2016, Freising/Munich 2017, Malta/Gozo 2018, Zagreb 2019, Bratislava 2020, Gdansk 2021, Rimini 2022, Stuttgart Region 2023, Tartu and Southern Estonia 2024, Budapest and Danube Bend 2025.

Landscape Forum 2025, Budapest and Danube Bend