Friday, 12 Sept. 2025

Morning Plenary Sessions:

These sessions will be translated in English / French

Topic: Territories in Transition

Moderator: Marina Cervera (Spain)


09:00 - 10:30: Keynote Lectures

Dirk Sijmons, Landscape Architect (The Netherlands)
Topic: Navigating the waves of the Anthropocene’

Kongjian Yu, Landscape Architect (China)
Topic: Designing a Sponge Planet: Landscape Architecture for Climate Resilience

Bertrand Folléa, Professor, Landscape Architect (France)
Topic: Transition and Resilience Through Landscape


10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30: Keynote Lecture

Pepa Moran Nunez, Professor (Spain)
Topic: Landscapes and Risks of Fire


11:30 - 12:00: Round Table "Territories in Transition"

Moderator: Karin Helms (France)

With the participation of the Keynote Speakers

Conclusion by Special Guest: Mechtild Rössler, Former Director UNESCO World Heritage Center (Germany)


12:00 - 13:30 : Lunch break

Afternoon Sessions:


13:30 - 14:30 : Thematic Parallel Sessions (Brief Oral Communications)

Session topics:

  • Socio-ecological strategies
  • Multi-scalar largescape enhancement
  • Heritage landscapes: authenticity and change
  • Taking communities into account in public consultation
  • Heritage as a participative tool
  • Heritage landscapes: authenticity and change
  • Methodologies of landscape remodelling and digital images

14:30 - 15:45 : Round Table "Ile de Nantes, Territories of Innovations"

Moderator: Ariella Masboungi (France)

With the participation of:

  • Sylvanie Gree (d'Ici là, France)

  • Virginie Vial (SAMOA, France)

Interview with Alexandre Chemetoff (France)
Topic: The guide plan as a project philosophy


14:30 - 15:45 : Thematic Parallel Sessions (Oral Communications)

Session topics:

  • Socio-ecological strategies
  • AI and other new approaches to public consultation
  • Tools for reinventing territories in situations of risk and environmental change
  • Organisation of large territories
  • History and curation
  • Largescape, soils and plant cycles

15:45 - 16:30 : Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00: Closing Session

  • Conclusion of the Congress by Special Guest, Antoine Picon (France)

  • Student Awards Ceremony

  • Flag Hand-Over to Future Congress Organisers


Evening : Gala Dinner at the Machines de l'Ile

Optional Event

Wednesday, 10 Sept. 2025 Thursday, 11 Sept. 2025