'Guiding Landscapes'
Landscape architects play a key role in adapting cities to climate change at a variety of scales. Planning, conceiving, and managing new resilient urban districts, reorganizing the public realm by reopening soils, increasing rainwater infiltration, and developing urban biodiversity to cool cities are all essential challenges.
Understanding soil and its conditions is the first step in assessing a location’s potential for ecological and sustainable projects. This will be one of the key aspects we explore during our visits to Nantes. Nantes has undergone significant urban transformations that have gained international recognition. One notable example is the “Plan Guide” for Ile de Nantes, an experimental landscape urbanism project that initiated discussions about the role of our profession in urban planning.
Numerous landscape architects have worked in France and in the Nantes region and are excited to share their experiences with you.
Congress
The IFLA World congress is recognized as the largest annual gathering for the landscape architecture profession. It offers a unique platform for professional development and networking, bringing together over a thousand participants from around the world.
Organized by the French Landscape Federation (FFP, Fédération Française du Paysage), the 61st World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) will take place in Nantes, France, from September 10-12, 2025, under the theme “Guiding Landscapes”.
This event will take place under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic.
Attendees will include practitioners, researchers, businesses, educators, students, and journalists, as well as anyone interested in the impact of landscape architecture on society, economy, and culture. This three-day event will showcase inspiring conferences and presentations, professional visits, technical exhibition and social events and excursions, with a special focus on highlighting the Nantes region and France.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore sustainable and inclusive urban solutions, drawing inspiration from Nantes’ reputation as an open urban laboratory The city’s innovative approaches to creating resilient urban districts, improving soil health, and developing urban biodiversity will serve as practical examples of landscape architecture’s role in addressing major climate challenges.
For more information, please visit https://iflaeurope.eu/index.php/site/news-single/2025-ifla-world-congress-guiding-landscapes
IFLA World Congress
The IFLA World congress is recognized as the largest annual gathering for the landscape architecture profession. It offers a unique platform for professional development and networking, bringing together over a thousand participants from around the world.
Organized by the French Landscape Federation (FFP, Fédération Française du Paysage), the 61st World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA) will take place in Nantes, France, from September 10-12, 2025, under the theme “Guiding Landscapes”.
This event will take place under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of the French Republic.
Attendees will include practitioners, researchers, businesses, educators, students, and journalists, as well as anyone interested in the impact of landscape architecture on society, economy, and culture. This three-day event will showcase inspiring conferences and presentations, professional visits, technical exhibition and social events and excursions, with a special focus on highlighting the Nantes region and France.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore sustainable and inclusive urban solutions, drawing inspiration from Nantes’ reputation as an open urban laboratory The city’s innovative approaches to creating resilient urban districts, improving soil health, and developing urban biodiversity will serve as practical examples of landscape architecture’s role in addressing major climate challenges.
