Contents
Landscape Forum 2025: Northern Budapest and the Danube Bend
From placelessness to a radical HERE
Imagining alternative futures for Budapest’s northern periphery
This forum will explore the landscape of Hungary’s capital city’s functional urban area through various thematic lenses. We aim to discuss local sustainability challenges as a basis for collectively ideating possible transition pathways. Within this framework, the forum has been preceded by an international student competition. The competition has focused on the northern periphery of Budapest, following a 60-kilometer transect along the Danube.
The thematic lenses of the landscape forum move each year from one place to another and carry a trans-European learning process across places, identities, and geographies.
Along this line, the Budapest landscape forum offers six thematic lenses through which participants can enter the reflection and co-creation process.
Forum Working Groups 2025
Working Group 1: Envisioning resilient urban peripheries: A children-oriented landscape approach
Working Group 2: Foodscapes: Imagining Budapest’s zero-km local food system transition
Working Group 3: Vác: Towards a living landscape biography
Working Group 4: Between here and there: Sustainable peri-urban mobility
Cross-cutting theme 1: Landscape Economy – From Systems Thinking to Systems Design
Cross-cutting theme 2: Democratic Landscape Transformation
Expected forum results and outputs
- Forum outcome statement with key messages
- Forum publication with working group reports (academic report with ISBN)
- Local interventions and communication material addressed to the local community