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Landscape as Infrastructure Landscape Institute Conference, 22-23 June 2017 :     Images: Ilbin YOON, MA Landscape Architecture student at WUC. Urban Territory Studio Project     “Landscape is a regulator of endless processes, producer and consumer of raw materials, highly multifunctional and synergistic.” Pollalis, S. N., 2016.  Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach . London: Routledge. “Landscape is the primary infrastructure.” Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment , 2014   Landscape practitioners are significantly involved in major infrastructure projects, increasingly playing a leading role. The way in which landscape works as an infrastructure in its own right, as well as the need to rethink conventional infrastructures as landscapes will be at the heart of the LI’s annual conference, due to take place on 22 and 23 June 2017 in Manchester in partnership with the LI North West Branch, Manchester Metropolitan Un...

The University of Reading acquired the library and archive collections of the Landscape Institute in 2013.  Since then we have been working to make the collections available to researchers.  We are now in the position to offer bursaries to encourage collections use and engagement.  Student travel bursaries The purpose of the student travel bursaries is to enable students to access collections held at Reading related to landscape, including landscape design, management and architecture. We are offering 2 bursaries of £150 each. Applications will be by email to merl@reading.ac.uk (please put “Landscape Bursary” in the subject line) will be invited from any student in part or full-time higher education. Interested applicants should submit a CV, and a short statement (max 400 words) outlining their interest in and current work on landscape, stating how the bursary would be spent and how it would be beneficial to their studies.  Applicants should identify those materials...

The Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen, in association with UNISCAPE and the Centre for Landscape Democracy (CLaD), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international conference on Landscape Futures to be held at the University of Copenhagen, 19-21 June 2017. We invite landscape researchers, practitioners and others with an interest in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. For more information: http://ign.ku.dk/landscape-futures