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UCTEA CHAMBER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

The Future Of Landscape Archıtecture In Medıterranean Countrıes : Identıty And Challenges

GENEL MERKEZ
10.06.2008 (Son Güncelleme: 23.09.2008 18:36:16)

The main purpose of the Symposium is to encourage a common platform of discussion and information exchange to increase the recognition of Landscape Architecture in Turkey and Mediterranean countries. Within this framework, it is aimed to activate landscape architects, not only in Turkey but at a wider scale all around the Mediterranean countries, in terms of their responsibilities in a changing and transforming world.

"The Future of Landscape Architecture in
Mediterranean Countries: Identity and Challenges"

The International Symposium of Landscape Architecture - Istanbul  2008,  has been conceived under the main title of "The Future of Landscape Architecture in Mediterranean Countries: Identity and Challenges".

At the end of the first Symposium, held in Athens in 2006, it was decided to broaden the scope of these meetings to cover especially the Eastern-Mediterranean countries and to organise the meeting of 2008, in Istanbul.

The main purpose of the Symposium is to encourage a common platform of discussion and information exchange to increase the recognition of Landscape Architecture in Turkey and Mediterranean countries. Within this framework, it is aimed to activate landscape architects, not only in Turkey but at a wider scale all around the Mediterranean countries, in terms of their responsibilities in a changing and transforming world.

Under the current conditions where global sustainability is becoming more and more difficult to achieve, the Symposium is vital in defining the professional discipline of landscape architecture, its stance in a broader field of services, in cooperation and in unity.

Taking into consideration the recent actions of UNESCO regarding historical and cultural landscapes and especially the European Landscape Convention covering the whole of Europe, we come together;

•  to determine short and long term objectives regarding the development of the profession of landscape architecture in Turkey and on a wider scale in Mediterranean countries,

•  to take new steps in the light of opinions and outputs put forth in the 1st International Landscape Architecture Symposium realised in Athens, in 2006,

•  to define the identity of the Mediterranean cultural landscape and to increase awareness on this matter,

• to determine the factors threatening the identity of the cultural landscape (uncontrolled development, climate change etc.),

• to describe the role of landscape architects in the protection and improvement of cultural landscapes,

•  to discuss the legal recognition of the profession‘s and

• to discuss methods of strengthening the cooperation in scientific research and in professional practice.

In line with the aims mentioned above, the main theme of "Change of Identities in Cultural Landscapes" will be considered under the following headings in Istanbul 2008, International Symposium of Landscape Architecture:

  • The Relationships of Natural Systems and Cultural Landscapes
  • The Relationships of Urban Development and Cultural Landscapes
  • Change in Cultural Landscapes within the Context of Globalization
  • Effects of Social and Ethnic Change on Cultural Landscapes

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