Student Competition

The IFLA Student Landscape Architecture Design Competition has been an important part of the IFLA World Congress for some time.
One of the roles of the competition is to promote and encourage the evolution of the profession of landscape architecture through education.
Students have the opportunity to have their work reviewed alongside that of their peers from around the world. The discipline required to prepare a competition entry is a very useful exercise for students and helps them prepare for some of the rigors of professional life.
Students will be asked to respond to a specific topic, which is usually related to the overall Congress theme. This allows the students to address local issues, and to fit into the general expectations of the studio class or thesis requirements of their university.

It has also given much insight into what students are thinking about. What are they concerned about? How do they see the role of landscape architecture? How do they see themselves?

In every competition, it has been clear that students pay attention to both the natural and the cultural landscape. The most successful projects have been those in which the students have clearly understood their context, and have employed both a rigourous analytical method, as well as strong design principles and execution. Ecological crises, the shocking destruction of heritage landscapes, social inequities, and the overall relationship between people and their environment are issues that have dominated the submissions. There is typically a range of projects from practical and site-specific, to conceptual and experimental, and the submissions represent the broad spectrum of the profession of landscape architecture, with urban and rural subjects, and a wide range of scales. The graphic communication of the projects, not surprisingly, has rapidly evolved over the years, and indicates that university programs continue to lead in this area. Interestingly, many of the project still demonstrate that students are continuing to develop their hand graphics as well.

Student Charrette

The IFLA Student Charrette is an intensive workshop open to students of Landscape Architecture Programmes from around the world, sponsored by Nava Polman-Gerson Foundation, Netherlands.
 
The Student Charrette will be planned by the IFLA 2025 Student Charrette Organizing Committee and organized by the French Federation of Landscape Architects. We will welcome undergraduate and postgraduate students of landscape architecture to apply for participation in a four-day workshop exploring…

• Thursday 4 September 2025

• Friday 5 September 2025

• Saturday 6 September 2025

• Monday 8 September 2025

• Tuesday 9 September 2025

Venue in Nantes: to be confirmed

Students from diverse cultural backgrounds will get the chance to come together, interact, share ideas, and, most importantly, have fun. Participants in the Student Charrette will be divided into teams, and the teams will get mentoring from academia and professionals to generate original and unique ideas.

Project site: L’étoile Verte

Eligibility:

Students majoring in landscape architecture all over the world (including graduate students). Students must be active students/enrolled in a program when the charette takes place. Proficiency in the English language, ability to use drawing and visualization programs, etc. is crucial to apply for student charrette.
 The participants should have a valid registration for the IFLA World Congress, in order to be eligible to participate at the Charrette.