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Review of the 26th International Conference on Information Technologies in Landscape Architecture

Review of the 26th International Conference on Information Technologies in Landscape Architecture

The 26th International Conference on Information Technologies in Landscape Architecture (DLA 2025) took place from June 4th to 7th, 2025 in Dessau, organized by Matthias Pietsch from Hochschule Anhalt. This hybrid event brought together around 175 participants from 29 countries, with a focus on the theme "Collaboration."

Keynote speakers Prof. Dr. Antje Backhaus, Prof. Carl Steinitz, and Prof. Carlos Licon highlighted interdisciplinary solutions for challenges like the sponge city approach and climate adaptation. The conference featured 62 presentations on topics such as digital participation, data-driven design, and geodesign technologies, and included a critical panel discussion on digital tools in collaboration.

Workshops, including a session on "Generative AI in Landscape Architecture" by Dr. Steven Ervin, were well-attended. The conference also emphasized the role of landscape architecture in the New European Bauhaus initiative. A student competition celebrated innovative projects, with winners from Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and Penn State University.

The social program included a dinner, Bauhaus tour, and excursions to Wörlitz and Park Georgium. All contributions are available as Open Access in the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA). Recordings will be uploaded to the DLA 2025 website, fulfilling all conference goals.

Wednesday | The opening public kick-off event

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Lectures 2025

 Paper Session 1A (Room A) - Collaboration: Digital Approaches to Participation and Co-creation in Landscape Architecture

Paper Session 1B (Room B) - Data-driven Design for Integrating Ecology and Landscape Architecture

  • 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

 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

Paper Session 2A (Room A) - Nature-based Solutions, Ecological Modeling and Simulation and Digital Landscape Architecture

Paper Session 2B (Room B) - Geodesign Approaches, Technologies, and Case Studies

Paper Session 3A (Room A) - Algorithmic Design and Analysis of Landscapes

Paper Sessionn 3B (Room B) - Decision Support for Social-Ecological Systems + UAV Imagery and Remote Sensing in Landscape Architecture

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

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

Keynote - The Charrette Process - Working together to build strong Utah communities

  • Prof. Carlos Licon, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Utah State University

Paper Session 5A (Room A) - Artificial Intelligence in Landscape Architecture

Paper Session 5B (Room B) - Landscape and Building Information Modeling (LIM + BIM) + Teaching Digital Landscape Architecture

Panel Discussion

JoDLA | Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture

The Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture addresses all aspects of digital technologies, applications, information, and knowledge bases in research, education, and practice pertaining to landscape architecture and related fields. The journal publishes original papers that address theoretical and practical issues, innovative developments, methods, applications, findings, and case studies that are drawn primarily from work presented at the annual international Digital Landscape Architecture conference. Its intent is to encourage the broad dissemination of these ideas, innovations, and practices. The Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture is listed in the international citation database Scopus. It is in the top 35% of all journals in the engineering / architecture category.

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