DLA-Conference

08:00 AM DLA Registration

• Foyer Audi Max

08:30 AM Welcoming addresses

• Prof. Dr. Jörg Bagdahn, President Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
• Prof. Dr. Nicole Uhrig, Prof. Trevor Sears, Prof. Dr. Matthias Pietsch, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

09:00 AM Keynote - Care and collaboration as key to climate adaptation

• Prof. Dr. Antje Backhaus, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:15 AM Paper Session 1A (Room A) - Collaboration: Digital Approaches to Participation and Co-creation in Landscape Architecture (DIA) (all courses taught in English)

• Ecological Game: A Worlding Analysis | ^{Xinyue Shou}
• Vivid Hydrodynamic Sandbox: An Entry Point for Diverse Participation and Co-creativity? | ^{Malte Schünemann, Jannis Gärtner}
• Phygital Co-Creation: A Hybrid Approach for Enhancing Participatory Urban Planning in Early Design Stages | ^{Viktoria Sandor, Theresa Fink}
• Can Collaboration in Multiuser Immersive Virtual Reality Streamline the Design Process? | ^{Beata Dreksler, Karim Bacha}
• Developing an Ecology-Integrated Gaming Tool for Collaborative Landscape Design | ^{Xuezhu Zhai}
• The Effect of Scaled Grid Patterns on Time Perception in Virtual Landscapes | ^{Songül Özyurt}

10:15 AM Paper Session 1B (Room B) - Data-driven Design for Integrating Ecology and Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English)

• A Spatial Layout Optimization Framework for Urban Landscape Hydrological Infrastructure Based on Multi-Objective Optimization Model | ^{Qinghe Hou}
• Integrating Ecological Modeling into the 3D CAD System Rhinoceros | ^{Verena Vogler}
• Developing Volumetric Data Models for ML Training Datasets using Grasshopper | ^{Verena Vogler}
• Immersive VR-Driven Landscapes: Exploring Climate-Adaptive Ecosystem Design | ^{Pia Fricker}
• The Impact of Urban Cool Islands on Expressed Happiness: A Case Study in the Central Urban Area of Nanjing, China | ^{Taorui Huang}
• Performative Coastal Textures: Integrating Computational and Physical Simulations for Seawall Design | ^{Roy Kozlovsky, Yasha Grobman, Hanna Levy}
• Third Time's the Fatigue: Frequency Verification and Its Extended Discussion of Landscape Fatigue Based on Electroencephalogram Measurement | ^{Liya Wang}

12:00 AM Lunch

01:00 PM Keynote - Global to Local to Global Geodesign for Climate Change Mitigation (GLG)

• ^{Prof. Carl Steinitz, Harvard University, USA and University College London, United Kingdom}
• ^{Ass. Prof. Dr. Pedro Arsenio, University of Lisbon, Portugal}
• ^{Prof. Dr. Michele Campagna, University of Cagliari, Italy}
• ^{Ass. Prof. Dr. Tijana Dabovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia}

02:00 PM Paper Session 2A (Room A) - Nature-based Solutions, Ecological Modeling and Simulation and Digital Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English)

• Sensing the Living City: A Scalable Platform for Monitoring the Electrophysiology of Urban Forests | ^{Justin Booz}
• Strategies for Enhances Courtyard Thermal Comfort in Hot Arid Phoenix: The Secret Garden on ASU Campus | ^{Muge Unal}
• Integration of Building and Landscape Design: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for Cooling Effect of Urban Built Environments | ^{Wei Dong}
• Research on the Optimization of Urban Waterfront Green Space Layout Based on Thermal Comfort: A Case Study of the Qinhuai River | ^{Kexin Huang}

02:00 PM Paper Session 2B (Room B) - Geodesign Approaches, Technologies, and Case Studies

• Methods for Regional Scale 3D Vegetation Modeling, Visualization and Geodatabase Integration: A Casa Study of the Qinghai Lake Basin | ^{Yahan Yan}
• Artificial Intelligence and Learning from Nature in Landscape Architecture (DIA) (all courses taught in English): An Innovative Approach that Shapes the Analysis & Design Process | ^{Buse Ezgi Er}
• A Framework for Applying Computational Methods to Identify Optimal Open Space Location for Physical Activity | ^{Benjamin Okenwa}

03:00 PM Coffee Break

03:30 PM Paper Session 3A (Room A) - Algorithmic Design and Analysis of Landscapes

• Prediction of Thermal Comfort in Nighttime Metropolises Based on Multiple Machine Learning Models and Social Media Data | ^{Jun Yang, Mengting Ge, Mintai Kim}
• Analyzing Dynamic Outdoor Eye-Tracking Data | ^{Brent Chamberlain, Ulrike Wissen Hayek}
• Design of Commercial Format Layout in Digital Urban Blocks Based on Space Syntax and Correlation Analysis | ^{Jiabei Wang,}
• Quantitative Model-Driven Parametric Design for Urban Waterbody Morphology | ^{Ning Zhang}
• BeingAliveLanguage: An Integrated Digital Framework for Understanding and Designing with Living Systems in Landscape Architecture (DIA) (all courses taught in English) | ^{Zhao Ma}
• Mapping Emergent Patterns of Landscape Architect User Experience in Creation Games to Describe Digital Landscapes | ^{Auriga Joy Rosell}
• A Data-Informed Analysis of Population Density and Soil Sealing in Suburban Housing Types at the Plot Level | ^{Stefanie Tischberger}

03:30 PM Paper Sessionn 3B (Room B) - Decision Support for Social-Ecological Systems + UAV Imagery and Remote Sensing in Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English)

• Assessing Site Suitability and Visual Impacts of Wind Farm Development in Garfield County, Oklahoma: An Investigation Utilizing GIS | ^{Emmanuel Khanano}
• Interconnected Landscapes: Multiscale Integration of Earth Observation and GIS for Sustainable Planning | ^{Beatrice Magagnoli, Francesco Axel Pio Romio}
• Examining Cultural, Historical and Ecological Themes in Trail Names in Maryland, USA | ^{Brooke Ayers}
• Exploring the Connection Between Urban Foraging and Biodiversity in Nanjing: Insights from User-Generated Content | ^{Jiaying Shi, Nan Wang}
• Fruit Productive Landscapes of Bangkok's Inner Orchard for Urban Greening in Bangkok, Thailand: Identifying Potential Areas for Conservation and Revitalization | ^{Vudipong Davivongs, Natsiporn Sangyuan}
• Monitoring Plant Species for Nature-based Infrastructure Design | ^{Michael Luegering}
• Identifying Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Carbon Storage in Green Spaces of Newly Developed Residential Areas using High-resolution Mapping | ^{Jombach Sándor}

05:30 PM Poster award

• Jury: Pia Fricker, Rosalea Monacella, Daniel Theidel

07:30 PM Conference Dinner at Kornhaus

08:00 AM DLA Registration

• Foyer Audi Max

09:00 AM Keynote - Collaboration through design and planning: The community charrette process at Utah State University

• As. Prof. Carlos Licon, Utah State University

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:15 AM Paper Session 4A (Room A) - Resilient Landscapes, Global Change and Hazard Response

• Tools on Fire: A Review of Emerging Wildfire Technologies for Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English) | ^{Emily Schlickman}
• Coastal Hazards Analysis Modeling and Prediction: Collaborative Model-driven Multi-hazard Forecasting and Planning | ^{Peter Stempel, Olivia Krum}
• Planning for Thermal Comfort: Analyzing Climate Change Effects on Tourism in the Aegean Region | ^{Ahmet Cilek}
• Community-driven Flood Risk Identification and Awareness Building in Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand | ^{Natsiporn Sangyuan, Vudipong Davivongs}
• Approaching Resilient Cities through Social-Ecological Connectivity: A Spatial Analysis of Amman City Center, Jordan | ^{Islam Alshafei, Pınar Righelato}
• Research on the Correlation between Large-scale Urban Green Space Morphology and Carbon Sequestration Capacity - The Case of Nanjing Main District | ^{Yilun Cao}

10:15 AM Paper Session 4B (Room B) - Visualization, Animation and Mixed Reality Landscapes (VR, AR)

• Google Earth Pro as a Tool for Communities to Understand Wind Farm Visual Impacts | ^{James Palmer}
• Visualizing Spatial Audio in Digital Landscapes | ^{Joseph Brooks, Nicholas Serrano}
• Assessing Computational Tools for Artful Stormwater Design: Evaluating Flow Simulations in Small-Scale Hydrology | ^{Mohammad Rezvan}
• The Impact of Monochrome Virtual Landscapes on Human Perception and Emotion | ^{Rümeysa Merve Öksüz}
• Fencing Virtual Landscapes: Using GIS To Identify and Classify Fences and Hedges for More Accurate Landscape Visualizations | ^{Karl Bittner}
• Advancing Design Communication in Multidisciplinary Team: The Impacts of VR/AR-enhanced Representations on Landscape Design Practices | ^{Mengting Ge, Mintai Kim}
• Assessing the Impact of Virtual Reality on the Planting Design Process | ^{Benjamin George}

12:00 AM Lunch

01:00 PM Paper Session 5A (Room A) - Artificial Intelligence in Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English)

• VGBs: A Video-based Semantic Segmentation Dataset for Quantitative Analysis of Green and Blue Spaces in Flanders | ^{Yangyang Shi}
• Using the XGBoost-SHAP Model to Explore the Impact of Urban Green-Blue Landscape Patterns on Carbon Sequestration Benefits | ^{Yangyang Yuan, Qianyu Hong, Jingwen Mao, Sidan Yao}
• AI in Practice: Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English) Artificial Intelligence Survey Findings | ^{Heather Braiden, Brent Chamberlain, Phillip Fernberg, Benjamin George}
• Early Days of AI Image Generation in Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English) | ^{Joerg Rekittke}
• Multimodal GeoAI for Urban Perception Prediction: A Case Study of Songdo, Incheon | ^{Dohun Kim, Soyoung Han}
• Customizable AI for Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English): Tailored Processes in Comparison with Traditional Rendering | ^{Afshin Ashari}
• Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into the Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English) Design Process | ^{Olaf Schroth}
• Training A Machine Learning Model to Identify Historic Wetlands in an Area of Critical Environmental Concern | ^{Kira Clingen, Justin Booz}

01:00 PM Paper Session 5B (Room B) - Landscape and Building Information Modeling (LIM + BIM) + Teaching Digital Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English)

• Integrating Multisource Data for Comprehensive Greenery Modeling in a Digital Twin: A Case Study of a Singapore Campus | ^{Yijun Lu}
• BIM for Better Urban Stormwater Design and Management: Perspectives through a Multidisciplinary, International Lens | ^{Peter Petschek}
• A Digital Twin Framework for Carbon Sequestration Estimation of Urban Green Spaces | ^{Yuhao Fang}
• Exploring the Potential to Evaluate People's Activity Preferences in Urban Green Spaces | ^{Ziqian Cheng}
• Let's Play the AI-based Board Game: New Era for Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in English) | ^{Arzu Türk}
• Applying Sustainable CNC Model Making Materials in Landscape Architecture (all courses taught in ^English) | ^{Vincent Javet}
• Exploring the Pedagogical Value of Game Design for Landscape Architects | ^{Gabrielle Bartelse}

03:00 PM Coffee Break

03:30 PM Panel Discussion

• 4:00 PM Guided Tour Bauhaus Museum (optional)

04:30 PM Closing Discussion and DLA Preview 2026