2024 CALL FOR ‘PECHA KUCHA’ presentations  
2024 IFLA EUROPE General Assembly, ‘PLANE(T)SCAPE 

This year’s IFLA Europe General Assembly and Regional Conference hosted by HALA Hungary will be held from 17-20 October and will revolve around topic ‘PLAN(T)ESCAPE’. 

Long-range climatological forecasts predict in connection with global warming a dark future, and we already see effects scientists predicted in recent years. The most effective antidote to the frequent disasters caused by the climate crisis - drought, desertification, precipitation and flood events, landslides, tsunamis, the urban heat island effect - is vegetation, which we simply refer to as Green city, green deal, green transition, green party, green politics, green thinking, green leadership, green marketing, green energy, green capital…. 

The “green” means plants, and the plants are a socially accepted symbol of a better future, a pledge of the survival of our Earth and the renewal of the biosphere; the plants are systems genetically coded for transformation, adaptation, and regeneration; the main object and tool of landscape architecture. A wealth of unexploited possibilities… 

Addressing landscape architecture as a profession deeply rooted in nature, we intend to draw attention to the multifunctionality of plants, their diverse application possibilities, and to all the positive ways of thinking with which we can achieve meaningful results in the fight against contemporary environmental challenges. We are convinced, that with the help of innovative and conscious plant application landscape architects can contribute considerable to a sustainable, and healthy vision of our Plan(e)tscape. 

We invite you to share teaching, research or practice perspectives of past, present and future plant uses in our professional experiences. We invite you to talk about system thinking and innovation capacities for plant use in a climate change scenario. Theories and discourses, good practices, design ideas, studio works, prototypes, local, regional and global projects, teaching methods, community involvements, 
legislations, strategies etc. with and about the plants are welcomed to be presented on IFLA Eu Conference in Budapest. 

We believe that landscape architecture is one of the key professions to offer solutions for the created situation. We believe, that the Plan(e)tscape conference emitting a positive tone, highlighting creative solutions, helps to reevaluate the increasingly prevailing doomsday mood, and instead of panic, outlines an active, forward-looking alternative, an optimistic vision of the future not only for the profession, 
but for the entire society. 

Those will be the issues and subject of our next General Assembly and Pecha Kucha presentations. 

Please respect the following guidelines for Pecha Kucha: 

• STRUCTURE - presentation of implemented project on the General Assembly topic ‘PLAN(T)ESCAPE’ should be prepared 
in accordance with the ‘Pecha Kucha methodology’: maximum 5 slides, good quality photos, abstract with 
description of implemented project.  

• ABSTRACT – DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT 
Please provide description of ONE implemented project (min 300 max 500 words) with the following elements

- title of the project 
- location and the beneficiaries - who benefited from the project  
- Landscape architect/office that implemented the project

- concept of the project, some details about the implementation of the project and especially the added value how a Landscape architect used skills/expertise/knowledge on nature-based solutions for sustainable design.  
- photos 2000px by the longer side, with credits to author(s)/source – we are not allowed to publish photos/images without credit 
- project category: ex. public space, park, waterfront developments, project reducing urban heat island effect, creating green corridors, car free/cyclist ways, cultural landscapes or sites (monument, cemeteries etc.), reclamation sites (derelict land reclamation, former industrial site, 
quarries etc.), water management projects etc. This will help IFLA Europe create a database of best practices and examples of NBS projects to show to others. 

Please DO NOT USE videos in the presentation. 

Your Pecha Kucha will be a part of IFLA Europe annual Yearbook which is then presented to important external stakeholders – professional organisations, NGOs, European Commission, Council of Europe and others. It is important that they also understand what Pecha Kucha, your project and landscape architecture is about.  

• PHOTOS 
Please send photos with good printing resolution 2000px by the longer side. Please always mark to whom pictures should be accredited - either to your National Association or the author. This is very important as your contributions for Pecha Kucha will be used for the next edition of IFLA Europe Yearbook and will be published and disseminated on our website and social media platforms. We cannot publish photos without source/credit. 

Please note that unless we have the 300-word abstract, good quality photos and the photographs credits, your presentation cannot be included in the Yearbook. For those who have not done it before, you can visit Europe website and see previous Pecha Kucha presentations 
http://iflaeurope.eu/communication/strategic-objectives-projects/pecha-kucha/

• TIME

- presentations should be short, concise and well-focused on the topic; the time foreseen for each presentation is maximum three minutes, including the transition time between presentations. Please respect the time foreseen. 

• SLIDES

- Maximum 5 slides. I am attaching for your information 2024 Pecha Kucha Template. 

• DEADLINE

- Please submit your Pecha Kucha presentations NO LATER than 1 October 2024. You can upload your 
presentations on our Google drive  
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J9iTqCjMjZmuq9cLZ_N4TGTmfmKuBJUj?usp=sharing

or send it by email to me on secretariat@iflaeurope.eu.  

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information or assistance.