The International Landscape Collaborative
is a group of emerging scholars and practitioners who promote integrated landscape approaches and nature-based solutions as a way to address environmental and social challenges in a changing climate.
Landscape Approach - Out Now
The ILC is proud to announce its forthcoming book titled “Landscape Approach: From Local Communities to Territorial Systems.” Edited by Hannes Zander, Shelagh McCartney, Samantha Solano, and Sonja Vangjeli, and with a foreword by Nina-Marie Lister, Landscape Approach is by AR&D Publishing. The volume features the work of over fifty contributors, compiled in twenty-three landscape-informed essays that allow for a unique international dialogue between a variety of authors, geographic contexts, sites, and scales. Together, they promote a holistic framework to ground individual places, communities, and habitats in a broad and socio-environmental territorial context. The publication builds upon the ILC’s first book From the South, published in 2019, by following the same framework of five thematic sections.
Design Climate Survey
Final Report 2022
There is no shortage of anxiety today. Nearly two years of a global pandemic has disrupted our lives and working situations and yet, climate change is looming larger than ever before. Importantly, when it comes to our professional anxieties—in our work as design and planning professionals—we should not resign ourselves to thinking that these are simply matters of our own individual career choices. If the past few years have anything to show us—we (the collective we!) are all in this together—or at least, it is evident that it will take collective action to address the challenges that lie before us. The final report of the design climate survey captures our professional positions and aspirations in the context of climate change, visualizes the gaps between them, and discusses a course of action based on four key takeaways.
Toronto Summit Online Proceedings
Addressing the climate crisis will require major changes in how we design, build, and live in our cities. Understanding the linkages between cities and their regional landscapes is a key requirement and learning opportunity in adapting towards a more sustainable and socially just future. By using the Greater Toronto Region as a testing ground, the proceedings of the previously held summit — Bridging Scales and Disciplines - Ecological Approaches to City Building — draws cross disciplinary lessons. A diverse group of participants discuss their work at the intersection of ecology, design, policy and advocacy to actively engage in the future of city-building, which is now available online.
Initiatives
Design Climate Survey
The final report of the design climate survey captures our professional positions and aspirations in the context of climate change, visualizes the gaps between them, and discusses a course of action based on four key takeaways.
Book: From the South
The first book “From the South: Global Perspectives on Landscape and Territory” is a result of the inaugural landscape summit held in Santiago, Chile and is available for free download.
The Landscape Approach
The discipline of landscape architecture finds itself in an opportune position in the era of the Anthropocene—the current geological epoch characterized by global human impact.