Presentations list and authors profiles - EFLA Regional Congress

PRESENTATIONS 

DAY 1: GAPS IN URBAN STRUCTURE – NEW LANDSCAPES 

PARALLEL SESSION 1 

FORGOTTEN PLACES: LANDSCAPE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY. CASE STUDIES 

Moderator: Prof. Gintaras Stauskis (LT) Vilnius Gediminas Technical University | 

gintaras.stauskis@vgtu.lt 

Gunta Lukstina (LV): Resort city Jurmala landscape: from fishermen villages to planned Urbanization 

Gunta Lukstina, Msc. Environmental Science and Management - architect, planner - have worked as a Jurmala City 

landscape architect and chief planner in the middle of 90th of the previous century. Today Gunta Lukstina is 

lecturing at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences and coordinates the Spatial Planning 

master study program there | gunta.lukstina@lu.lv 

Carmine Falasca (IT): Strategies for the recovery of mountain settlement heritage abandoned for a 

new quality of living 

Carmine Carlo Falasca, architect, Professor of Architectural Technology and Environmental Design at University of 

Pescara, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Engineering (Italy). His main research topics are: planning 

technological culture in particular about the design of Innovation factors of contemporary exploring the effects on 

these processes and management of natural and artificial environments. He has experience in the field of housing, 

technology for emergency and provisional, congruence energy. Actually is working at the research for testing the 

methodologies and tools for quality improvement intervention in the existing and new construction | 

cfalasca@unich.it 

Sung-Kyun Kim (KR): Sustainable Landscape Aesthetics in a Korean Traditional Landscape Garden 

“Nujeongwon” 

Kim Sung-Kyun is a Landscape Architect, currently a Professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Seoul 

National University. He holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He has 

several articles and books published as well as won several awards through is professional career. Presently he is 

the Korean delegate for IFLA | sung@snu.ac.kr 

Ahmed Haron (CN/EG), Xiangrong Wang (CN): Toward achieving a sustainable development of 

Lake Qarun, Egypt 

Ahmed Haron(1984 Egypt) Candidate for the Ph.D. School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, 

china, Earned a master's Urban Design, Faculty of Engineering Cairo University in 2010 and Bachelor of Science 

Degree Engineering Department of Architectural Engineering, Fayoum University in 2006, Egypt. He is Founding 

partner of Arch-Space office from 2006 | archharon@gmail.com 

Wang Xiangrong (1963 China) is professor and vice-dean of the School of Landscape Architecture at the Beijing 

Forestry University, the chief landscape architect of Atelier DYJG and editor in chief of the Chinese Magazine of 

Landscape Architecture. He received a BLA from Tongji University in 1983, an MLA from Beijing Forestry University 

in 1986, and gained his Ph.D. from the School of Urban and Landscape Planning at Kassel University, Germany, in 

1995. 

Mart Hiob and Nele Nutt (EE): Estonian historical manor park in changing landscape 

Mart Hiob is a civil engineer, MSc, by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. At the present time he 

is a lecturer at the Department of Landscape Architecture in Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College. As 

well, Mart is the managing director of Artes Terrae office and an active member of the Estonian Landscape 

Architects’ Union (EMAL) | mart.hiob@ttu.ee 

Nele Nutt is a landscape architect, MSc. At the present time she is a lecturer at the Department of Landscape 

Architecture in Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College. Nele is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed 

journal "Acta architecturae naturalis" and a member of Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union (EMAL). 

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FORGOTTEN PLACES: LANDSCAPE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY. NEW APPROACHES 

Moderator: Kadri Maikov (EE) Estonian Life Sciences University | kadri.maikov@emu.ee 

Shelley Egoz (NZ): Filling a Gap: The Right to Landscape 

Dr Shelley Egoz is a landscape architect and Senior Lecturer at the School of Landscape Architecture Lincoln 

University New Zealand. Shelley’s research interests are in the symbolic and ideological power of landscape, in 

particular related to social justice, conflict resolution, and ethics associated with landscape architecture, space 

and design. She has organised several conferences, presented in many, is on the editorial board of the journal 

Landscape Research and publishes continuously in journals and books. Shelley is the driver of the Right to 

Landscape (RtL) initiative at the Cambridge Centre for Landscape and People (CCLP); she is the principal editor of 

the first book on landscape and human rights titled The Right to Landscape, Contesting Landscape and Human 

Right that is about to be published by Ashgate Publications, UK, in December 2011 | shelley.egoz@lincoln.ac.nz 

Igor Noev (MK/IT): Recognition of the spontaneous processes in architecture 

Igor Noev, born in Skopje, Macedonia has graduated in 2003 at Faculty of Architecture, “Ss Cyril and Methodius” 

University in Skopje, Macedonia. Currently is in the final year as a PhD fellow at the Department for architectural 

and urban design at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. He was involved in various projects as a leading 

architect at “Folding...” Studio in Skopje, design architect for EU projects in Macedonia and in the Balkan region. 

He has participated in many national and international competitions, postgraduate courses, workshops and 

congresses. His research interest includes spontaneity phenomenon in architecture, qualification of the nonplanned 

processes in the urban and architectural forms and theoretical approaches in methodology of design 

|noevigor@yahoo.com 

Sérgio Godinho (PT): Contemporary landscape architecture design as a collective memory 

regenerator 

Sérgio Godinho is a Landscape Architect at the Municipality of Viana do Alentejo, Portugal. With a Degree in 

Landscape Architecture he is currently registered at University of Évora as a Master Student on Landscape 

Architecture. His research interests focuses on the theme of contemporary landscape design and heritage 

rehabilitation. Since 2006 he works on the practice of Landscape Design and Planning and monitors the green 

spaces maintenance on the county where he works | sergio.f.godinho@gmail.com 

Anna Staniewska and Katarzyna Pałubska (PL): Recovering memory of landscape – role of NGOs 

in rehabilitation of the fortified landscape 

Anna Staniewska is a PhD. Architect, assistant professor (adiunkt) at the Institute of Landscape Architecture at 

Politechnika Krakowska (Cracow University of Technology). Fortified landscape rehabilitation by NGOs was topic 

of her doctoral thesis defended in 2010. Her research interests include heritage landscape planning and cultural 

landscape management and public participation | anna.skrzynska@gazeta.pl 

Katarzyna Pałubska, PhD, landscape architect, Assistant Professor at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, at 

the Institute of Ornamental Plants and Landscape Architecture. Her expertise is military heritage cultural 

landscape and its contemporary use and the role of fortress green in the cityscape. 

Natalia García Fernández and Sergio Sanna (ES/IT): An analyse of Belice Valley 43 years after 

earthquake. Cartography of the memory 

Natalia García Fernández (Valencia, Spain, 1979) studied Architecture in Valencia and Venice (Italy). In Barcelona, 

she coursed the Master in Landscape Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Since 2007 she's 

been attending the PhD program at the Department of Landscape and Urban Planning of the Polytechnic 

University of Valencia focusing her research on landscape and its relationship with memory and territory. Actually 

she works in some landscape architecture offices in Spain as a Project Architect | n.garcia.fdez@gmail.com 

Sergio Sanna (Palermo, Italy, 1974) studied Architecture in Palermo and Mendrisio (Switzerland). In Barcelona, he 

coursed the Master in Landscape Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and also collaborated 

with the research team at the Urban Planning and Landscape Department, where he organized and managed the 

International Schools' Exhibition of the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture in 2010. He was also visiting 

professor at the University of Rome, Italy, in 2009 and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 2010. 

Actually he works in some landscape architecture offices in Italy and Spain as a Project Architect | 

sergio.sanna@gmail.com 

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WATER AS KEY-ELEMENT. CASE STUDIES 

Moderator: Teele Nigola (EE) Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union, Kobras AS | 

teele@kobras.ee 

Gijs Wallis de Vries (NL): Waterscape. The case of Helmond 

Gijs Wallis de Vries (Semarang, 1952) studied architecture and urbanism in Delft. After a practice in urban 

renewal in Rotterdam, he obtained his PhD in Eindhoven with the dissertation Piranesi en het idee van de 

prachtige stad (Piranesi and the idea of the Magnificent City, Duizend&Een: Amsterdam, 1990). Wallis de Vries is 

associate professor at the department of the Built Environment of the University of Eindhoven. He lectures on 

architectural history and theory. He tutors research and design graduate studios that develop a narrative 

approach to urban space. He regularly supervises PhD research. He participates in the research programme ‘The 

architecture of the Living City’ chaired by prof. Pieter van Wesemael. His own research ‘Scape’ explores the 

relations of architecture, landscape and the longing for escape. He presented at various conferences organized by 

ACSA, IGU, Cerisy, IASTE. He lectured in Delft, Zürich, Weimar, Brussels, Karlsruhe and published in Archis, Oase, 

Kunstlicht, De Architect, De Gids. He edited and/or contributed to books published by SUN, 010 Publishers, Thoth, 

and Duizend&Een. He is a member of the board of the Dutch Archiprix and of Archiprix International that 

organizes the award of graduation projects in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture | 

j.g.wallis.d.vries@tue.nl 

Fatma Aycim Baskay (TR): Revealing strategies for the cityscape of Istanbul 

F. Aycim Turer Baskaya (Ph.D.) is a lecturer in Department of Landscape Architecture at Faculty of Architecture, 

Istanbul Technical University. Turer Baskaya has a BLA from Istanbul University and received M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 

landscape planning from Istanbul Technical University. She was a visiting scholar at University of Kassel in 2009. 

She has several papers presented in international conferences and published in academic journals. Her research 

interests include urban landscape planning and design, landscape reclamation, urban ecology and GIS | 

aycimbaskaya@gmail.com 

Sandra Huning (DE): Urban waterscapes as products, media and symbols of change – the reinvention 

of the Ruhr 

Sandra Huning is lecturer and researcher in the Urban Sociology Unit at the Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund 

University of Technology | sandra.huning@tu-dortmund.de 

Dominik Scheuch (AT): Riverfronts revisited! New approaches to the landscapes of European urban 

river fronts 

Dominik Scheuch is a landscape architect and planner from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences 

and Technical University of Vienna where she holds a position of lecturer. She is the founder member of the 

landscape architecture office YESDESIGN Landscapes in Vienna. As well, Dominik is an active member of the 

Austrian Federation of Landscape Architects (OEGLA) | dominik.scheuch@yesdesign.at 

Derek Hoeferlin (US): Gutter to Gulf: legible water infrastructure for New Orleans 

Derek Hoeferlin is an architect, urban designer, principal of Derek James Hoeferlin Architect; and, collaborates 

with Waggonner & Ball Architects. Educated in architecture at Tulane and Yale Universities, Derek is currently an 

Assistant Professor at Washington University in St Louis’ Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. He and his 

students collaborate with faculty and students at the University of Toronto on “Gutter to Gulf” – an initiative 

advocating for integrated water strategies for New Orleans. With H3 Studio, Inc., Derek helped lead the “Unified 

New Orleans Plan;” and, was a member of the Behnisch Architekten team as finalist for the “City-Arch-River” 

design competition to reinvigorate areas surrounding the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. With Ian Caine, Derek placed 

first in the “Rising Tides” design competition in San Francisco. Derek currently is conducting global comparative 

delta and watershed field research to better inform adaptive architecture, landscape and urban design strategies 

| hoeferlin@samfox.wustl.edu 


ECO-CITY: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND SOLUTIONS 

Moderator: Prof. Maria Ignatieva (SE/RU) Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences | 

maria.ignatieva@slu.se 

Nuno Jacinto (PT): Lighting on demand. Sustainable lighting systems in public space 

Born in 1975, Nuno Jacinto is a partner at the Landscape Architecture Studio PROAP, which gathers a vast group 

of landscape architects, architects, designers and plastic artists, part of a core oriented by João Nunes. Involved in 

PROAP’s strategic direction and management, coordinates the Construction Detailing and Technical Site 

Completion Processes. Supervises the Design Review, Verification and Validation Processes. Director of PROAP SA, 

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Proap’s local office in Luanda, Angola. Project Manager of all African projects, assures client and technical team 

liaison. Frequently participates as guest lecturer in international workshops and conferences, representing PROAP 

| nuno.jacinto@proap.pt 

Nada Lazarevic Bajec (RS): Changing landscapes – balancing actions: Belgrade water front 

adaptation to climate change 

Nada Lazarevic Bajec has 40 years of teaching experience in areas of land use planning, urban design, local 

strategic planning, planning theory and history and research methodology. She has also more than 30 years of 

experience in research and consultancy on urban and regional planning policy, housing policy and strategy for 

Local and State Governments in Serbia, as well as for international organizations (UN-HABITAT, UNECE, Stability 

Pact for SEE, etc.). Mrs. Lazarevic Bajec is the author of several books and articles in professional journals. She has 

presented papers on many national and international conferences, seminars and round tables | jbajec@eunet.rs 

Maria Leboreiro (ES): Sustainable construction of the periphery: eco-cities 

María A. Leboreiro Amaro, Architect, PhD at the Architecture School, Madrid. Professor of Urban Planning at the 

Madrid School of Architecture. Founder and Director of the digital revue urban-e. She works, as director of 

multidisciplinary teams, in urban planning of large and medium scale and patrimonial protection. She is author of 

various books about urbanism and articles in many professional reviews | taula@arrakis.es 

Isabel Ramos (PT): Found in translation - bridging concepts from traditional gardens into 

contemporary urban planning and design 

Isabel Loupa Ramos, PhD, is Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico - Department of Civil Engineering and 

Architecture. Currently she teaches courses in landscape planning, landscape ecology and urban and regional 

planning. She is researcher at CESUR (Centre of Urban and Regional System) where she takes on research related 

to the integration of social and environmental perspectives at the landscape scale, as landscape scenarios, 

landscape preferences and landscape policies for rural and urban areas | isabel.ramos@ist.utl.pt 


URBAN LANDSCAPES: INFRASTRUCTURE AND DESIGN STRATEGIES 

Moderator: Mart Hiob (EE) Tallinn University of Technology – Tartu College | mart.hiob@ttu.ee 

Francesco de Luca (EE/IT): Emergent, adaptive and responsive urban landscapes design strategies 

PhD Arch. Francesco De Luca graduated with honors in Architecture and defended his Architecture Design and 

Theory PhD thesis at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He obtained several awards in architectural 

international competitions among which A concept plan of Pärnu riverside center 1st Prize and Design Against the 

Elements Special Energy Prize. He published various articles and the book Behind the scene - Avant-garde 

Techniques in Contemporary Design. After teaching at the L. Quaroni faculty of Architecture in Rome as Contract 

Professor is now Lecturer at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College. He is co-founder of ITA Project 

architectural design firm | f.deluca@itaproject.eu 

Adam Bobbette (HK): A guide to combustible city 

Adam Bobbette is a researcher and designer. He currently teaches in the School of Architecture, Division of 

Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong | liinaeinla@gmail.com 

Eha Naylor (CA): Emergence of green infrastructure - rethinking highway infrastructure and urbanism 

Eha Naylor is a Partner and Practice Leader for the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design practice. 

Her 30 years of consulting experience reflects a diversity of expertise in environmental planning and site design 

for both the public and private sectors, which has earned her numerous professional awards of recognition. She is 

a member of several professional associations including the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, the 

American Society of Landscape Architects, the Canadian Urban Institute, the Ontario Association of Landscape 

Architects and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. In 2000, she was named Fellow of the Canadian Society 

of Landscape Architects. Eha has served on several professional committees, design juries and has also appeared 

as an environmental planning expert witness for the Ontario Municipal Board. She continues to lecture at a 

number of Canadian universities, and since 2004 has been a member of the University of Toronto Faculty Council 

for the John Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. She has served on several committees for the 

Washington based Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards and received the President’s Award for 

her efforts. Eha is currently appointed to the Canadian federal government’s National Capital Commission 

Advisory Committee for Planning, Design and Realty |enaylor@dillon.ca 

Valerie Dewaelheyns, Kirsten Bomans, Hubert Gulinck (BE): Lost in the urban-rural interface: the 

garden complex 

Valerie Dewaelheyns is researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, department of Earth and Environmental 

Sciences. She holds a Master Degree in Bioscience engineering with a specialization in land and forest 

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management and is finishing landscape and garden architecture studies at Erasmus University College Brussels. 

She was involved in policy supporting research on domestic gardens in Flanders, focusing on their environmental 

impact and spatial extent. Her PhD focuses on the structures and strategic values of the Flemish garden complex. 

Currently, she is working on a policy-supporting research project on climate change and changes in spatial 

planning in Flanders | sofie.bruneel@ees.kuleuven.be 

Kirsten Bomans is a researcher and assistant at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, department of Earth and 

Environmental Sciences. She holds a master of bio-engineer, with a specialization in forest and land management. 

She was involved in a project on current and future spatial needs for agriculture in Flanders. Currently, she is 

working for the Policy Research Centre on Space and Housing, doing research in different topics such as 

agriculture, hobby farming, fragmentation of open space, etc. She has published on these topics in international 

journals. 

Hubert Gulinck is full time professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and teaches courses in Landscape Analysis, 

Rural Land Use, and Land Use Monitoring. Recent publications concern landscape and land use indicators in the 

frame of environmental and spatial monitoring, with special interest in semi-urban areas, hence also the garden 

complex. In Tanzania he promotes a project about the dynamics of land use in relation to human health and rural 

development. In his work he has increasingly affinities with social aspects of land use. He also promotes a 

permanent transdisciplinary workshop on rural dynamics in Flanders. 


WATER AS KEY-ELEMENT. METHODOLOGIES AND DESIGN APPROACHES 

Moderator: Zenia Kotval (US/EE) Michigan State University, Visiting Professor at Tallinn 

University of Technology – Tartu College | kotval@msu.edu 

Maria Matos Silva (PT): Urban flood adaptation through public space design. A contribute to a 

conceptual framework 

Maria Matos Silva graduated Landscape Architecture from Instituto Superior de Agronomia at TU Lisbon in 2007 

being awarded the best ISA-UTL graduated student of that year. From 2007 to 2009, Maria worked at 

ACBPaisagem studio, having published part of her experience, on the restoration of historic hydraulic systems, in 

two book chapters. In 2009/10 completed a Master Degree on Urban Design at Universitat de Barcelona, having 

also published the final thesis. In 2010, through a research grant from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), 

Maria joined the research project “Urbanized Estuaries and Deltas” of Faculdade de Arquitectura at TU Lisbon, 

having already participated in some conferences. Since 2008 is a freelance designer in Landscape Architecture and 

since 2011 a PhD student at Universitat de Barcelona | m.matosilva@fa.utl.pt 

Rosalba D’Onofrio (IT): Waterway network and new coastal landscapes 

Rosalba D'Onofrio. Assistant Professor (RTD) in Urban Planning – SAD (Scuola di Architettura e Design “E. 

Vittoria”), Università di Camerino. Her research and publications center on environmental and landscape planning 

(Murst: Parks and Regional Reserves System; Progetto Planeco; APE) as well as urban planning (Murst: Integration 

efficiency and capacity in the planning process for the new shape of Piano – Università “La Sapienza,” Rome; 

University research: Urban planning and urban ecology – Università Politecnica delle Marche). Her current 

research activities lie in the field of landscape planning and urban sustainability and she is a consultant on urban 

matters for various public entities | rosalba.donofrio@unicam.it 

Teresa Alfaiate (PT): Water as a landscape builder, the unique matter for sustainable city design 

Teresa Alfaiate, born in Lisbon and graduated in Landscape Architecture – University of Évora (1986) and PhD – 

Technical University of Lisbon (2001), with co-orientation – Technical University of Berlin. As a Professor, teaches 

Theory and Practice of Landscape Architecture Project in the Technical University of Lisbon (1988-2011). In 1993 

founded her own firm – Margem, Arquitectura Paisagista Lda. – developing project of landscape. General 

Secretary of the Portuguese Association of Landscape Architects (2002-2004) | mtalfaiate@isa.utl.pt 

Nuno Jacinto (PT): Strategies for water management. A global irrigation model 

Born in 1975, Nuno Jacinto is a partner at the Landscape Architecture Studio PROAP, which gathers a vast group 

of landscape architects, architects, designers and plastic artists, part of a core oriented by João Nunes. Involved in 

PROAP’s strategic direction and management, coordinates the Construction Detailing and Technical Site 

Completion Processes. Supervises the Design Review, Verification and Validation Processes. Director of PROAP SA, 

Proap’s local office in Luanda, Angola. Project Manager of all African projects, assures client and technical team 

liaison. Frequently participates as guest lecturer in international workshops and conferences, representing PROAP 

| nuno.jacinto@proap.pt 

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DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES 

Moderator: Helena Gutmane (LV) University of Latvia, ALPS – Atelier for Public and Private 

Spaces | helena.gutmane@alpspace.lv 

Kathryn Moore (UK): Filling the conceptual void: from pedagogy to policy in landscape architecture 

Immediate Past president of the Landscape Institute, UK, Professor Kathryn Moore has lectured and published 

extensively design quality, theory and education. Her teaching and research, set within landscape architecture has 

clear implications for architecture, urban design and other art and design disciplines, in addition to philosophy, 

aesthetics and education more generally. Recent consultancy project include membership of the team for Martha 

Schwartz Inc, Living Landmarks Big Lottery Fund project, for Birmingham City Council and creating an urban vision 

for the Black Country with Lovejoys, Birmingham which evolved into a study of regeneration catalysts. She is 

currently writing a book partly funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 

Illinois, proposing a radical reappraisal of the relationship between the senses and intelligence. A trustee for 

CBAT, the arts regeneration agency in Cardiff, she is a member of the steering committee for the international 

City Park Design Competition, Birmingham City Council | kathryn@harborne.u-net.com 

Carola Antón (ES/CH) and Dominique Ghiggi (CH): Pfingstweid Zurich. About erosion and 

stratification in the city 

Carola Antón García born in 1974 in Seville, Spain. 2009 Co-founder antón & ghiggi landscape architecture. Since 

2009 Assistant Teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture, Prof. Günther Vogt, ETH Zurich. Since 2009 

Research project ARTANA (Plástica y arte anátomico). 2008 Self-employed Architect and Landscape Architect. 

2005-2008 Work at Schweingruber Zulauf Landscape Architects, Zurich. 2004 MAS in Landscape Architecture, ETH 

Zurich, Switzerland. 2001 Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Heritage, ETSA Seville. 1999-01 Self-employed 

Architect. 1999 Degree in Architecture, ETSA Seville, Spain | mail@antonghiggi.com 

Dominique Ghiggi born 1975 in Locarno, Switzerland. 2009 Co-founder antón & ghiggi landscape architecture. 

Since 2008 Conception and consulting for Sahel Vert project Senegal. Including landscape planning and research 

(www.sahel-vert.com). 2008-2010 Self-employed Landscape Architect and Research Assistant to the Chair of 

Günther Vogt, Institute for Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich. 2004 MAS in Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, 

Switzerland. 2002-2007 Work at Vogt Landscape Architects, Zurich. 2000-2001 Tropical Studies at the Tropical 

Institute Basel – Dr. A. Zumstein. 2000 Degree in Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland. 

Sirle Salmistu and Bruno Marques (EE): High performance landscapes in Estonia 

Sirle Salmistu is a landscape architect, MSc. At the present time she is the lecturer and the active head of the 

Department of Landscape Architecture in Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College. Sirle has professional 

experience in the field since 2003 working (part-time) in the landscape architecture office Artes Terrae and 

teaching experience since 2005. Sirle Salmistu is the board member and president of Estonian Landscape 

Architects’ Union (ELAU) | sirle@maastikuarhitekt.ee 

Bruno Marques is a landscape architect, MSc from Lisbon Technical University (School of Agronomy) spending 

most of his master studies and research at Berlin Technical University. Since 2009 he had started his PhD studies 

at Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu College as well as his academic carrier as lecturer in the Department of 

Landscape Architecture at the same institution. His major interests are Theory of Landscape Architecture, 

Philosophy and Aesthetics of Landscape as well as Landscape Design. Bruno Marques is a board member of the 

Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union (ELAU) since 2010 | brunoagm@gmail.com 

Tiago Campos (PT): Desert as a reversible transition 

Born in Lisbon in 1982, Tiago Torres Campos is a research Manager at the Landscape Architecture Studio PROAP, 

which gathers a vast group of landscape architects, architects, designers and plastic artists, part of a core oriented 

by João Nunes. Managing Editor for PROAP’s publications. Jointly runs the international communication 

processes, manages graphic and written project information sent to media requests worldwide. Participates 

tactically in the creative processes, review and critique of projects. Frequently participates in international 

workshops and conferences, representing PROAP | tiago.campos@proap.pt 

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LIVING SYSTEMS: CONTEMPORARY TRENDS AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN 

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 

Moderator: Jeremy Andrew Dennis (DK) EFLA Treasurer, Kragh & Berglund – Landscape 

Architecture & Urban Design | jad@kragh-berglund.dk 

Iñaki Zoilo (PT): Misting-cooling systems for microclimatic control in public space 

Born in Zaldibia in 1972, Iñaki Zoilo is a partner at the Landscape Architecture Studio PROAP, which gathers a vast 

group of landscape architects, architects, designers and plastic artists, part of a core oriented by João Nunes. 

Involved in PROAP’s strategic direction and management, oversees research and design projects to assure 

conceptual and artistic coherence. As senior overall project manager is responsible for the coordination and 

implementation of all projects. Leads the organisation and the development of the design competition teams in 

their conceptual and technical execution. Frequently participates as guest lecturer in international design and art 

workshops, representing PROAP | inaki.zoilo@proap.pt 

Liis Moor (EE): Users´ ability to understand concepts and meanings of contemporary landscape 

architecture 

Liis Moor earned her Master degree in Landscape Architecture at Tallinn University of Technology and Bachelor 

degree at Estonian University of Life Sciences. She has developed herself professionally by studying and working 

in Germany and Denmark. She is an active member of Estonian Landscape Architecture Students Organization and 

grantee for urban planning and architecture scholarship by Rotalia Fund (USA) | liis.moor@gmail.com 

Henning Günther (DE): “Living islands” - floating vegetation for urban stormwater management and 

climate moderation. A status assessment 

Dipl. – Ing. Henning Günther, landscape architect (AKS). Since April 2008, Henning Günter is a scientific assistant 

at Berlin University of Technology, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, 

Vegetation Technology and Planting Design. 08/2003 - 03/2008: Plan T Planungsgruppe Landschaft und Umwelt 

Radebeul. 10/1997 – 11/2003: diploma in landscape architecture, Dresden University of Technology, Department 

of Landscape Architecture. 08/1995 – 07/1997: apprenticeship in a tree nursery | henning.guenther@tuberlin.de 

Haris Piplas (DE/BA): Sustainable urban ecosystem services: the multifunctional urban landscape 

and its potentials 

Haris Piplas was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1984, he has studied and graduated at the University 

in Sarajevo in 2008 where he was awarded as the best student. His main focus was Landscape Architecture, Urban 

ecology and greening and Urban planning. He receives the German DAAD-scholarship for postgraduate studies in 

2008 and is since then attending interdisciplinary Urban Design Master studies at the Technical University in 

Berlin. His memberships and activities include the membership in the European Federation of Landscape 

Architecture where he is the editor of the Newsletter and the Young Leaders membership at the Urban Land 

Institute but also the steering committee membership of the Bosnian Landscape Architecture Association. He 

attended numerous of professional conferences and exhibitions and his recent focus is Architecture, planning and 

sustainable urban development in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a comparison to the E.U. | haris.piplas@daadalumni.de 

DAY 2: GAPS IN URBAN LIFE – NEW LIVES 


LANDSCAPES OF TRANSFORMATION: DESIGN FOR EVERYONE 

Moderator: Francesco De Luca (EE) Tallinn University of Technology – Tartu College, ITA 

Project | f.deluca@itaproject.eu 

Alissa North (CA): Transformative landscapes: evolving communities through Public Space 

frameworks 

Alissa North is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto in the Daniels Faculty 

of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Her research investigates the development of proposed and built 

landscape architecture projects to reveal principles of process based designs. Alissa graduated with Honours from 

the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Toronto, and received the Master in 

Landscape Architecture degree with Distinction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Alissa is a partner in 

North Design Office, which has received recognition for entries in several design competitions, many of which 

have been published internationally | alissa.north@daniels.utoronto.ca 

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Rana Al-matarneh (JO): Gated communities: re-shaping the socio-spatial urban cityscape 

Gulsen Guler (TR): Character redefinition for derelict landscapes, a proposal for Istanbul Metropolitan 

Area Black Sea quarries 

Gulsen Guler (Ph.D.) graduated from Istanbul Technical University, department of City and Urban Planning at 2004 

at top of her class. She received her Master of Science degree and PhD degree at the department of Landscape 

Architecture from the same university. She is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of 

Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Technical University. Her professional fields are landscape design, urban 

landscape and green urbanism, urban design and urban furniture | gulergu@gmail.com 


DIFFERENT FACES FOR DIFFERENT PLACES: MULTI-DIVERSITY IN URBAN CONTEXT 

Moderator: Gunta Lukstina (LV) University of Latvia | gunta.lukstina@lu.lv 

Kerli Irbo (EE): Play with the city: breaking the boundaries of the urban space. Case study of Tartu 

Kerli Irbo is a young landscape architect and a partner in the landscape architecture studio TajuRuum in Estonia. 

In 2011 finished her MSc in Landscape Architecture from the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Her research 

about play in the city includes socio-behavior studies of the people and how the human perceptions affect their 

use of public space bringing together several different fields like ludology, sociology, psychology, physiology, 

anthropology, landscape architecture, urban planning and design. She has been an active participant in the 

Estonian Landscape Architecture Student's Association and ELASA - European Landscape Architecture Student 

Association | 

Ana Nikezic (RS): Kosutnjak: landscape as a living system’ 

Ana Nikezic, architect, PhD, works as Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, University in Belgrade, on 

Bachelor, Master and PhD studies, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University in Belgrade. 

Engaged in the project "Studying climate change and its influence on the environment: impacts, adaptation and 

mitigation" (43007) financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia within the 

framework of integrated and interdisciplinary research for the period 2011-2014 | ana.nikezic@gmail.com 

Maria-Valerie Schegk (DE): Planning for integration in urban parks: A European search for best 

practice in Ghent and Manchester 

Maria-Valerie Schegk studied political science at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich. After graduating there 

in 2010 she took part in an international and interdisciplinary Masters programme oft Vrije Universiteit Brussels 

(Belgium), together with Tilburg Universiteit (Netherlands), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and the 

Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn, Estonia). This programme was a specialist graduate degree called „European 

Urban Cultures“ (Polis) and Maria-Valerie Schegk graduated in September 2011 with a Master of Arts. Her work is 

mainly directed at strategies for a socially inclusive urban community and planning evaluation | 

valerie@schegk.de 


FROM TEACHING TO PRACTICE: NEW RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGIES IN LANDSCAPE 

ARCHITECTURE 

Moderator: Maria Matos Silva (PT) Technical University of Lisbon – Faculty of Architecture | 

m.matosilva@fa.utl.pt 

Rossella Salerno (IT): Filling the urban landscape gaps by a patchwork of open space. A proposal for 

dispersed city 

Full Professor of Theory and Techniques of Representation at the Faculty of Architecture and Society of the 

Polytechnic of Milan, Head of PhD “Territorial Design and Government” in the Department of Architecture and 

Planning. The themes of research have been amply published in essays and volumes and are closely linked to the 

field of representation although related to interdisciplinary problems referring to history, planning and the 

preservation of the environment. Scientific contributions have been made in the fields of Representing the 

territory and environment and Theory and history of methods of representation. Cultural and educational 

exchanges with the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona Paisatgisme, with the DESS at the École 

d’Architecture de Versailles, the Université Lyon III, the École d'Architecture de Lyon, the École d’Architecture de 

Paris-La Villette, the École d’Architecture de Grenonble. Many the talks at conferences and seminaries, with 

invitations arriving especially from France and Japan to expound the theme of representing the landscape | 

rossella.salerno@polimi.it 

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David Turcáni (SK): Utilization of urban landscape visual quality assessment in green structure plan 

on Nitra town example 

Had worked as a designer in Studio of landscape architecture, where he worked on documents of landscape 

protection, especially documents for urban environment and landscape with preserved historical structures. 

Presently, David is a PhD student at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, where he is dealing with 

the issues of green structure plans of urban settlements | david.turcani@ukf.sk 

Banu O. Kurtaslan (TR): Leadership in environmental stewardship through service learning 

Banu Ozturk Kurtaslan graduated from Ankara University Agriculture Faculty-Department of Landscape 

Architecture in 1996. She has got her master’s degree in 1998 and Ph.D. degree in 2004 from the same university. 

She has worked as a research assistant in Erciyes University Faculty of Architecture-Department of City and 

Regional Planning between 2001-2005 years. She is currently an academician in Department of Landscape 

Architecture at Selcuk University Faculty of Agriculture- Department of Landscape Architecture in Konya City since 

2005. She gave some lectures in both institutions, both on graduate and post-graduate levels. Banu has been a 

visiting scholar with Fulbright grant in City University of New York-Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of 

Architecture-Department of Landscape Architecture and Mississippi State University Department of Landscape 

Architecture in 2010-2011 education year. She studied on urban park planning-design and ecological design, in 

both states. She has been studying on urban landscape issues. She has presented a lot of international papers for 

the congresses in various countries | bkurtaslan@gmail.com 


TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES: SOCIAL LEARNING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 

Moderator: Prof. Fritz Auweck (DE) Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences | 

fritz.auweck@hswt.de 

Gintaras Stauskis (LT): Strengthening local communities by involvement into complex renovation of 

residential environment 

Doctor of the Humanities, Associate Professor of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University conducting academic and 

research activities at the Department of Urban Design. Involved in European Union research programs since 1998. 

Current research fields: Sustainable urban mobility, accessibility of environment, health care networks, recreation 

and urban health. Research results have been presented in numerous national and international publications and 

conferences | gintaras.stauskis@vgtu.lt 

Alice Mathers (UK), Julie Frøik Molin (DK/UK): Evolving involvement: exploring the devolution effect 

on patterns of UK community involvement in urban green space 

Alice Mathers is a Landscape Architect and Research Associate in the Department of Landscape at the University 

of Sheffield, UK. Her work is driven by an interdisciplinary approach to people-environment interactions, which 

straddles the academic boundaries of landscape architecture, planning, sociology, disability studies, human 

geography and environmental psychology. Her research with disabled people seeks to challenge current 

professional, academic and societal constraints that inhibit the involvement of underrepresented communities in 

environmental planning and design | a.mathers@sheffield.ac.uk 

Julie Frøik Molin is a Landscape Architect and PhD student at Forest & Landscape at the University of Copenhagen, 

Denmark. Her PhD project focuses on gathering existing experiences with involvement of citizens in management 

and maintenance of municipal green spaces, namely on how the local authorities are approaching involvement of 

citizens, the motivation and engagement of the citizens and the potentials for a beneficial collaboration between 

the two parties. Her research is carried out in Denmark and England. 

Inga Urbonaite (LT): Community involvement into regeneration of devastated urban areas of Vilnius 

city 

Nausica Pezzoni (IT): The deconstruction and disruption in the representation of the city: migrants 

mapping Milan (via Skype) 

Nausica Pezzoni is an architect, PhD candidate in Territorial Design and Government. She has worked as an urban 

planner by Public Administration (Lombardy Region and Milan Province). Now she is involved in research and 

teaching activities at Polytechnic of Milan. Her research interests are focused on territorial transformations in the 

contemporary world; in particular she is studying two main topics: the living conditions of new migrants in 

European main towns and a particular form of site specific art which includes the social, territorial and artistic 

element giving the landscape a complex and organic meaning | nausica.pezzoni@gmail.com 

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CHANGING DISCIPLINES, CHANGING LANDSCAPES: COMMUNICATION AS A GAP 

Moderator: Marina Cervera de Medina (ES) EFLA Secretary General | 

mcerveraalonsodemedina@gmail.com 

Zenia Kotval (EE/US): The gap between planning practice and theory: intuitive or irrelevant? 

Zenia Kotval is a professor of urban and regional planning in the School of Planning Design and Construction at 

Michigan State University. Zenia's teaching and research expertise is in economic development planning, 

community development practice, fiscal and economic impact assessments and development of underutilized 

areas. Her research is published in leading international journals and several book chapters. Zenia also serves on 

the editorial boards of the ICMA Press and the Journal of City and Town Management. She is an active member of 

the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, American Institute of Certified Planners and the Planning 

Accreditation Board. During the study year 2011 she is the Visiting Professor at Tartu College, Tallinn University of 

Technology, Estonia | kotval@msu.edu 

Helena Gutmane (LT): Public space as a tool for social revival: experiencing interdisciplinary 

collaboration. Case of intensive training program “RADI RIGU!” 

Helena Gutmane is practitioner of landscape architecture, partner at Atelier for Public and Private Spaces (ALPS) 

in Riga, one of the organizes of the project “RADI RĪGU!”. She graduated as philologist and landscape architect. 

Today follows joint PHD program at LU and K. U.Leuven. Field of research: spatial quality, mental landscapes, 

spatial communication, public spaces | helena@alpspace.lv 

Rana Al-matarneh (JO): Gated communities, commodification of the public space: the case of the 

GCR 

Jekaterina Balicka (EE/LV): Temporary use of urban space in the Baltic context: filling the gap 

between future and past 

Landscape architect from Latvia living in Tartu. Born 1984 in Riga. 2003-2008 studies in Landscape Architecture 

and Planning at Latvia University of Agriculture. 2007-2009 worked with Helena Gutmane and Marc Geldof (ALPS, 

Riga). Since 2009 working as a freelance landscape architect in the team of Hutterreimann Landschaftsarchitektur 

Berlin. 2008-2010 - Master studies in Landscape Architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Since 

November 2010 PhD student at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, in the department of Landscape 

Architecture. Professional interests - Urban Public space, Temporary use strategies, Guerilla actions | 


READING IN BETWEEN THE GAPS: PHILOSOPHY AND LANDSCAPE 

Moderator: Andreja Tutundžić (RS) University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry | andrejat@sbb.rs 

Iñaki Zoilo (PT): Modular landscapes in arid climates. Redefining sustainability in public space 

Born in Zaldibia in 1972, Iñaki Zoilo is a partner at the Landscape Architecture Studio PROAP, which gathers a vast 

group of landscape architects, architects, designers and plastic artists, part of a core oriented by João Nunes. 

Involved in PROAP’s strategic direction and management, oversees research and design projects to assure 

conceptual and artistic coherence. As senior overall project manager is responsible for the coordination and 

implementation of all projects. Leads the organisation and the development of the design competition teams in 

their conceptual and technical execution. Frequently participates as guest lecturer in international design and art 

workshops, representing PROAP | inaki.zoilo@proap.pt 

Liina Einla (EE): The notion of Heterotopia in the practice of Landscape Architecture 

Liina Einla started landscape architecture studies in 2003. She got the bachelor degree from the Estonian 

University of Life Sciences in 2006. In the autumn of the year 2007 she got the opportunity to continue her studies 

in the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Alnarp as an Erasmus student. From 2008 till 2010 her 

status in SLU was as a master student. In autumn 2010 she finished the SLU and got the masters degree. 

Nowadays, she is a landscape architect, working in her own landscape architecture company TajuRuum OÜ | 

liinaeinla@gmail.com 

Daniela Perrotti (FR/IT): Landscape (as) infrastructure: filling the gap between aestheticphilosophical 

approaches and urban design strategies 

Daniela Perrotti is Associated Researcher at Laboratoire de Recherche LAREP of Ecole Nationale Supérieure du 

Paysage de Versailles and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Politecnico di Milano (Aesthetics). 

In 2011 she obtained her double PhD in “Urban and Architectural Design” at Politecnico di Milano and at Ecole 

Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette. Among her main scientific publications: the books L'Alta 

Murgia. Un paesaggio (2011), Paesaggi. Sguardo dal theatron (2007); the articles "The Impacts Of Green Energies 

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Policies On The Transformational Processes Within The Context Of The Contemporary Rural Landscape" (2011) in 

Science for Environment - Environment for Society, ed. National Environmental Research Institute - Aarhus 

University; "The European Landscape: A Sustainable Infrastructure” (2010), in Living Landscape, ed. UNISCAPE; 

"The Landscape-Infrastructure: A Multicriteria Analytic Approach For A Territorial Model Of Sustainable 

Development” (2009), in Landscape - Great Idea!, ed. BOKU University Vienna | daniela.perrotti@mail.polimi.it 

Etienne Turpin (US): Speculative landscapes: towards a philosophy of the Anthropocene contributors 

Etienne Turpin completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where his doctoral dissertation analyzed Georges 

Bataille's concept of expenditure in relation to post-Kantian aesthetic and teleological commitments. Previously, 

he also completed an M.A. (Philosophy) at the Universite d'Ottawa, and a Bachelor of Humanities at the College of 

the Humanities, Ottawa, Canada. In addition to philosophy, his teaching and research areas include architecture 

theory, political economies of land use and resource extraction, aesthetics, modern and contemporary art, and 

environments of desolation. Prior to his position for 2011-2012 as Walter B. Sanders Research Fellow at the A. 

Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, he taught in the graduate 

programs for Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and 

Design at the University of Toronto. Etienne is also a founding editor of the architecture, landscape, and political 

economy journal Scapegoat | sturpin@umich.edu 


HEALTHY CITIES, HEALTHY LIVES: LEGISLATION, POLICIES AND EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE 

Moderator: Nigel Thorne (UK) EFLA President | n.j.t@btinternet.com 

Fani Vavili-Tsinika (GR): Teaching for Heterotopias and a healthy city 

Professor Fani Vavili-Tsinika graduated from the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 

received a Master of Arts in Health Facility Planning, Metropolitan University of London and a Ph.D. from the 

School of Architecture, Faculty of Technology A.U.Th. She is teaching architectural design. She has published many 

articles, research results and books. Since 1975 she’s involved in architectural practice and research concerning 

design of health care buildings, houses, multi-story residential buildings, theaters, museums and others | 

faniva@arch.auth.gr 

Han Xili (CN): Sharing open space around to promote children’s physical activity in ‘urban village’ 

neighborhood in Beijing 

Xili Han is an assistant professor in Landscape Architecture at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and 

Architecture & Landscape Architecture School. Her research focuses on Green infrastructure; Children’s play 

environment–behavior interactions, and contemporary needs; and the senses of cities–attractiveness and quality 

of urban landscape and open space | hanxl@szpku.edu.cn 

Charlene LeBleu (US): Predicting and mitigating the effects of Land Use and Land Cover Change in 

urbanizing coastal ecosystems 

Charlene LeBleu is an Associate Professor of the Landscape Architecture Program at Auburn University, Auburn, 

Alabama, USA. Her primary areas of interest and research have been focused on green infrastructure and water 

quality issues, especially issues related to low impact development design. She is a member of the American 

Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners, and a member of the American Society of 

Landscape Architects (ASLA). Professor LeBleu has shown exceptional public service and leadership working with 

regional partners and city planning commissions on projects in the State of Alabama and throughout the United 

States. She has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in university, town, and state affairs as well as in our 

national professional and academic organizations. She seeks to obtain a Fulbright scholarship to extend her water 

quality and planning policy studies into Europe. Professor LeBleu has a B.S. Forest Resources and Conservation 

from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, and a Master of Community Planning, and a Master of 

Landscape Architecture from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA | leblecm@auburn.edu 

Kadri Maikov (EE): Landscape characteristics in journeys as a new method in Landscape 

architecture 

The author is a PhD student of landscape architecture. She has studied landscape characteristics in Estonian 

University of Life Sciences since 2002 (MSc). The author works as a CAD lecturer. She has published a book about 

Healing gardens in 2011 | kadri.maikov@emu.ee 

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REGIONAL PLANNING, INFRASTRUCTURES PERFORMANCE AND MOBILITY 

Moderator: Peep Moorast (EE) Tallinn City Government |peep.moorast@tallinnlv.ee 

Agnieszka Jaszczak (PL): Planning transportation infrastructure in the context of road safety and 

landscape management 

Agnieszka Jaszczak, Ph.D. Eng., specialization: landscape architecture. She is junior professor at the Department of 

Landscape Architecture and Agritourism, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland) and guest 

researcher at the Department of Nature and Landscape Protection, Georg-August University of Göttingen 

(Germany). The main topic of her research work is rural and urban planning. Author of 70 research papers and 

over 50 projects in a field of landscape architecture | agaj77@tlen.pl 

Urszula Forczek-Brataniec (PL): Visual gaps in landscape 

Urszula Forczek – Brataniec. Doctor of Science – architecture and Urban design, specialty: landscape architecture. 

Lecturer in Landscape Architecture Institute on the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of 

Technology. Member of the scientific council of Pieniny National Park, member of Landscape Architecture 

Association (SAK). Since many years works on theory and practice of visibility studies and analysis in architectural 

up to planning scales. Cooperates with eM4. Brataniec architectural practice | urszulafb@interia.pl 

Tiago Carvalho (PT): The moving city: Lisbon’s war on itself 

Tiago Mesquita Carvalho has master degrees in Environmental Science and Environmental Aesthetics and postgraduate 

studies in Urban and Regional Planning. He has been a fellowship researcher in Lisbon Technical 

University in both energy and sustainable mobility and soundscape projects; he also worked in the Portuguese 

Environmental Agency in building indicators for the national environmental report. Currently he is a member of 

the Lisbon University Philosophy Centre, where he’s a researcher in the Philosophy and Architecture of Landscape 

project | tiago.campos@proap.pt 

Damiano Cerrone and Panu Lehtovuori (EE): CONTOUR. Consolidate ownership negotiation tool 

for urban restriction. The case of Põhjaväil 

Damiano Cerrone, student and research assistant, Estonian Academy of Arts | damianocerrone@gmail.com 

Panu Lehtovuori (born 1968) graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1995. A cofounder 

of Livady Architects, a Helsinki-based practice, Lehtovuori taught the MA course in Spatial and 

Environmental Design in the University of Art and Design Helsinkibetween 1995 and 1998. He also was a part-time 

teacher of housing design in Helsinki University of Technology in 1995-1997. In 1999-2002 Lehtovuori prepared 

his doctoral dissertation at the Graduate School for Urban and Planning Studies. The work, "Experience and 

Conflict" (2005), presents a new conceptualisation of public urban space, valorises the changes of the use of 

urban space in Helsinki, and tests a new, experiential approach to planning and urban design. At present, 

Lehtovuori is Professor of Urban Studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts | panu.lehtovuori@artun.ee 

DAY 3: QUALITY OF LIFE / QUALITY OF LIVING 


TEMPORARY LANDSCAPES AND ART INTERVENTION 

Moderator: Bruno Marques (PT/EE) Tallinn University of Technology – Tartu College, 

Estonian Landscape Architects’ Union | brunoagm@gmail.com 

Krzysztof Herman (PL): Temporary, nomadic and mobile gardens in urban spaces 

Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) from Warsaw University of Life Sciences. PhD student and lecturer at the 

Department of Landscape Art of Warsaw University of Life Sciences. The Fulbright Program research grantee at 

Harvard Graduate School of Design (2008/2009). Member of the EFLA (European Federation for Landscape 

Architecture) Communication Group. Lecturer with international (conferences in Sofia, Istanbul, Neuchatel) and 

domestic experience (Polish National Art Gallery “Zacheta”, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow and others). 

Working as an artist: created installations in Heppen Transfer Gallery, Kolibki Sculpture Park, at ZachętaNational 

Art Gallery. Designed Park(ing) Day temporary gardens in Warsaw (2009-2011) | hermankj@gmail.com 

Paul Walker Clarke (US): Clunkers (derelict automobiles) for planters; ameliorating the construction 

of the Red Line, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 

Paul Walker Clarke is an architect and assistant professor of architecture at Morgan State University of Baltimore, 

where he directs the terminal design studios and teaches courses in urban design and architectural history. His 

research focuses on the cultural and economic role of architecture in urbanism and globalization. His essay “The 

economic currency of architectural aesthetics,” was included in Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban 

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Design, edited by Alexander R. Cuthbert. Another of his essays, “The ideal of community and its counterfeit 

construction,” appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education | paul.clarke@morgan.edu 

Evita Alle (LV): An experience of art interventions: the “Art Landscape Transformation” project 

After obtaining her Master’s degree in 2007, Evita Alle continued research work in the doctoral programme within 

the Landscape Architecture speciality (Latvia University of Agriculture). The main research interests deal with 

heritage landscape and its relation with art in the public space | evita.alle@gmail.com 

Diana Lavinia Culescu (RO): Delivering temporary landscape 

Diana Culescu is a Romanian landscape architect, born in Bucharest in 1976. She graduated her BA in 2006 at the 

Landscape Architecture Department of the University of Agronomical Science and Veterinary Medicine in 

Bucharest and her MA in 2008 in the Integrated Urban Development Program at the University of Architecture 

and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” Bucharest. She became a member of The Association of Romanian Landscape 

Architects (AsoP) and of The European Federation of Landscape Architects (EFLA) in 2008. Her main focus is 

landscape architecture, landscape maintenance and management of sustainable inclusive cities. Her current 

activity comprises conceptual design, detailed design and implementation for a wide range of project in landscape 

architecture and urban planning field for RPR Birou de Studii Contemporane Company and tutoring for the 

landscape architecture design studios under the Landscape Architecture Department of the University of 

Agronomical Science and Veterinary Medicine – Bucharest | birou.rpr@gmail.com 


CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING 

Moderator: Sirle Salmistu (EE) Tallinn University of Technology – Tartu College, Estonian 

Landscape Architects’ Union | sirle@maastikuarhitekt.ee 

Manuel Vicente Espliguero (ES): Landscapes with future: genuine landscape, integraal landscape, 

aest-ethical landscape 

Manuel Vicente Espliguero combines his professional career as a landscape designer and teacher of forestry 

works, landscape projects, design, garden history and theory of landscape at the professional school of 

agriculture, forestry and landscape of Quintanes in the Catalan Pyrenees, north of the province of Barcelona, 

Spain. He is agronomist engineer by the Superior Polytechnic University of Madrid and landscaping master by the 

Polytechnic University of Valencia. Practices and proposes a rural landscape of strong natural style, rich in 

symbolism and readings that enable a comprehensive response to the needs of the person and help to transcend 

and improve | mvespliguero@gmail.com 

Andreja Tutundžić (RS): Absence of Mind: urban planning gap in the light of contemporary demands 

of urban life 

Andreja Tutundzic is an Assistant of the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry, and the current Vice President 

of EFLA. He has been working at the Town Planning Institute of Belgrade, among others projects on development 

of the Master plan of Belgrade 2021 and on defining the contents and procedure for Belgrade biotope mapping. 

His current teaching and research interests focus on landscape panning and green infrastructure planning | 

andreja.tutundzic@sfb.bg.ac.rs 

Charles Taze Fulford (US): Singing the Blues: the condition of creativity in Mississippi and its 

connection to the built environment 

C. Taze Fulford III is an assistant professor at Mississippi State University. He teaches classes in creativity, 

computers in landscape architecture, and community design. His interests are regenerative communities, 

painting, and the natural environment. He has an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from 

Mississippi State University and a Masters degree in Architecture from the University of Idaho | 

tfulford@lalc.msstate.edu 

Terje Ong (EE): Food urbanism initiative. Food as a tool in shaping, re-structuring and designing the 

city; using Tartu and its surroundings as a testing site to map the potentialities 

Terje Ong is a landscape architecture student at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. About to finish her 

studies in 2011, she already co-founded a landscape architecture office TajuRuum together with friends occupied 

in the same field. Her motivation has led her to study in Norway and work in Switzerland. Currently, her mission is 

to contribute to the Estonian market. She is occupied with activating her office and thinking on food urbanism | 

terje.ong@gmail.com 

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ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOUR: IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE 

Moderator: Carlo Bruschi (IT) EFLA Vice-President for Professional Practice | 

carlo.bruschi@tin.it 

Pinar Koylu (TR): Students’ place attachments and perceptions of the city: case of Duzce 

Dr. Pinar KOYLU is an assistant professor at Duzce University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Landscape 

Architecture. She studied Landscape Architecture at Ankara University. She holds European Masters degree in 

Environmental Management. She also received Master of Fine Arts degree in Interior Architecture and 

Environmental Design from Bilkent University. She conducted her PhD dissertation while working as a research 

assistant at Ankara University. Her research interests include historical gardens, landscape design and peopleplace 

relations. She has published articles and presented papers on these topics. She is currently leading a 

research project focusing on attachment of university students to particular places | koylupinar@yahoo.com 

Han Xili (CN): The influence of neighborhood environmental safety on children’s outdoor physical 

activity in ‘Urban Village’ areas of Beijing, China 

Xili Han is an assistant professor in Landscape Architecture at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and 

Architecture & Landscape Architecture School. Her research focuses on Green infrastructure; Children’s play 

environment–behavior interactions, and contemporary needs; and the senses of cities–attractiveness and quality 

of urban landscape and open space | hanxl@szpku.edu.cn 

Faezeh S. Miraei-Ashtiani (IR): The reflect of balcony design on the quality of its use 

Faezeh S. Miraei Ashtiani is a graduate student from the University of Tehran. She has born in Tehran and spent 

part of her life in Australia and United States. She has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture by the University of 

Tehran and working experience in the field of architecture at VAV studio in Tehran. Besides Architectures her free 

time is spent around horse riding, natural landscapes, ornamental plant production and gardening | 

f.ashtiani@ut.ac.ir 

Iman Alsumsam (UK): Improvement to the quality of urban public spaces in Hama city, Syria 

Iman Alsumsam is a PhD student at University of Edinburgh with an experience in Architecture, urban design and 

public space. Iman graduated with a B.Sc. in Architecture (with Distinction), Aleppo University in 2003 and a 

Diploma in Architectural Design, Aleppo University in 2005. After graduation, Iman taught in Aleppo University at 

the Architectural Design Department. Later in 2008, she got involved in ‘Urban Design Program’ at Edinburgh 

College of Art and was awarded an MSc. in Urban design. Currently, Iman is undertaking research project towards 

a PhD in Architecture, and her research interests incorporate work on the social and spatial qualities of public 

space | iman_alsumsam@hotmail.com 

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