Program > Day 1 - Thursday 20 June

THURSDAY 20 JUNE 2024

13:00 - 13:45: Registration

13:45 - 14:00 : Opening and welcome messages

Nikolaus Hirsch (CIVA)

Pascal Buléon (Institut Européen des Jardins & Paysages)

Nicolas de Villenfagne (Comité René Pechère)

Nathalie de Harlez de Deulin (conference curator)

14:00 - 18:00: Session 1: Overview, Belgium, France, The Mediterranean  

Moderator: Marco Martella (Institut Européen des Jardins & Paysages)

• Modern Landscape Architecture: Exchanges & Definitions, Marc Treib (University of California, Berkeley)

• Of Park Systems and Minigolfs, From Athens to Anderlecht, Ursula Wieser Benedetti (CIVA, Brussels)

• Brussels at the center of the World: The gardens of 1958 Universal Exhibition, Eric Hennaut (CIVA, Brussels) [in French]

Coffee break

• Postwar Housing in France: Landscapes for Living and the Evolution of a French Landscape School, Bernadette Blanchon (ENSP Versailles) [in French]
  

• Art and Ecology: Exchanges in the Landscapes of Francisco Caldeira Cabral and Roberto Burle Marx, Cristina Castel-Branco (Lisbon University)

Discussion 

18:00: Reception « verre de l’amitié »