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The 4th LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum
(Re)Discovering the Emerald Necklace took place
from 21st – 25th April 2015 in Bucharest, Romania
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 2015 LE:NOTRE Institute Landscape Forum!
110 participants from 21 countries joined the interactive and interdisciplinary Forum in Romania’s capital and explored the Colentina chain of lakes under the theme ‘(Re)Discovering the Emerald Necklace’.
The event was opened by Sorin Cîmpeanu, the Romanian Minister of Education. International and local keynote speakers included Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons from the Council of Europe, Anca Ginavar from the Romanian Ministry for Regional Development and Milica Bajic-Brkovic, the current president of ISOCARP. Subject-specific inputs were given by Irina Tulbure-Moldovan on the modernist heritage of Bucharest, by Liisa Tyrväinen from the Finnish Forest Research Centre on the multiple benefits of peri-urban woodlands and by Giovanni Scudo, from the Milan Polytecnic on the productive rural fringe.
Once again participants split up in small workshop groups under the four Forum sub-themes:
- Urban growth and peri-urban sprawl: the landscape of the peripheries of contemporary cities
- Sustainable tourism and recreation: visions for landscape regeneration through tourism development
- Heritage and identities: permanence, patrimony, specificity and dynamics of landscape identities
- Rural fringe and productive landscapes: multifunctional rural landscapes and the economic dimension
Side events included a pre-Forum promenade, Phd and Teachers workshops, a poster session as well as the announcement of the winners of an international student competition.
The LE:NOTRE Institute would like to thank the organisers for making this event possible! Workshop participants will now continue working on the joint Forum publication.
Event hosts
Downloads
- Outcome Statement Landscape Forum 2015 Bucharest
- Outcome Statement (Romania Version)
- LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum 2015 Report
Themes & Objectives
- The Bucharest Landscape: A Geographical, Historical & Green Structure Presentation of The Bucharest Landscape by Angelica Stan and Ioana Tudora
- Colentina Chain of Lakes
- Urban Growth and peri-urban Sprawl: the landscape of the peripheries of contemporary cities
- Sustainable Tourism and Recreation: visions for landscape regeneration through tourism development
- Heritage and Identities: permanence, patrimony, specificity and dynamics of landscape identities
- Rural fringe and productive landscapes: multifunctional rural landscapes and the economic dimension
Programme
- LLF 2015 Programme 20150415
- LLF Bucharest Pre Forum Promenade
- eLEctures
- Regional ISOCARP Meeting
- Speakers LLF 2015
Student Competition

Poster Colentina_116 by Mihaela Radu, Emine Ismail, Eleonora Adela Voicu, Theodora Voicu
The competition was organised in advance to the Bucharest forum. It aimed to support integrated and holistic approaches to the urban and peri-urban landscape through multidisciplinary student teams elaborating planning and design proposals at various scales.
The major challenge of this competition was the scale: 25 kilometres of a complex urban periphery connected by a chain of natural and artificial lakes, marked by strong contrasts at various levels: functional, ecological, socio-cultural, ethical, aesthetic, heritage, economic and many more.
More details on site and task: download competition brief
Press release on the exhibition: download report
The winning projects
First Prize: ‘342.914km scaffolding’
Second Prize (A): Green Infrastructure and Water Management
Second Prize (B): Maidan takes shape
Third Prize: Productive Periphery Matrix
Fourth Prize: Bucharest Garden City
Fifth Prize: Integration and Connection
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All other submissions received
Project Submissions 026 – 045
Project Submissions 044 – 097
Project Submissions 102 – 116
- Call for Posters
- More details on site and task: Competition Brief
- Press release on the exhibition: Report Results of the Colentina Student Competition
- Colentina Student Competition Full documentation
- Doctoral Colloquium
- Innovative Practice Workshop
Press Information
Forum opening by the Romanian Minister of Education
Forum opening and exhibition Vernissage
General forum announcement
- English
- Romanian
- Bulgarian
- Serbian
- German
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Hungarian
- Czech
- Slovak
- Polish
- Croatian
- Turkish
- Farsi
- Arabic
Print media
Poster A3 >> LLF_2015_Poster_A3_JPG | LLF_2015_Poster_A3_PDF
Travel and Accommodation
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Photo Stream
(Images: Mihai Sulescu, AsoP)
Preperatin & Organisation at Ion Mincu University and U.S.A.M.V
Opening speeches (sponsors, thematic workshop visits, presentations)
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Sponsors
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