IFLA World Congress, Brazil

[Antoinette Raimond]

Anyone attending the IFLA World Congress in Rio de Janeiro in October 2009?

If so, what do you understand under the theme namely: Green infrastructure- High Performance Landscapes?

[David Gibbs]

Brazil! here we come…

[David Gibbs]

hmmm. surely this is connected to green Engineering and green Architecture: creative low-embodied energy solutions and responses to the challenges of our built enviroement/ challenging ‘conventional’ responses?

[Antoinette Raimond]

Well, for me ‘green’ means an ecological approach. So in other words it will be: ecologically sound infrastructure, which relates to suistainability (Not that suistainability should be a category we try to achieve. It should inherently be part of our projects, it is not something you consider but apply).

[Eric Papetti]

Yep! Certainly plan on going, although I haven’t registered yet….not employed right now so it’s kind of expensive to manage on my own. But that title….is a bit vague. I feel like “Green Infrastructure” is kind of a catch-all phrase.

[Kevin J. Gaughan]

I would really love to go, but it doesn’t look like it is in the cards this year. Anyone know where IFLA is headed to in 2010

[Antoinette Raimond]

Apparently IFLA is heading to China (Suzhou) in 2010, and then Switzerland (Zurich) in 2011, and SOUTH AFRICA (CAPE TOWN) in 2012!!!

[Antoinette Raimond]

We (the first year MLA students at UCT) want to go as well but we are still working on getting enough sponsorship to finance the trip.
Green Infrastructure might be a ‘catch-phrase’ but the nature of landscape architecture is all encompassing or tends to be.

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