46 th IFLA WORLD CONGRESS, Call for submissions

October 21 – 23, 2009, Rio De Janeiro – Brazil

Practitioners, academics and students of landscape architecture are invited to discuss, critique, and demonstrate how through a variety of mediums and a potential mediation of design disciplines,
contemporary ideas of landscape functions can be reconsidered as green infrastructure.
Submissions should consider experimental and innovative design projects and critiques, research, written and photographic essays, digital animations or film.Selected speakers will address a 20 minute presentation on plans and designs related to the following session themes:
1.Green Infrastructure Design,
2.Green-Infrastructure for New Developments,
3.Recovering with Green Infrastructure,
4.New Landscape Performances.
It is expect presentations with clear illustrations, either as slides in PowerPoint or videos.
Questions and debates will follow each session.
You can submit a digital proposal at www.46ifla2009.com.br

Submissions proposals should contain at most 6000 characters including spaces
in Portuguese, English or Spanish.
Attach four illustrations: pictures, graphics, or any other figure aiming to better
explain your proposed presentation, in a jpg format 400 kb each.
Please indicate the session theme you would like to discuss your contribution.
Proposals to be published in the proceedings are those both approved by the referee selection process, and those which at least one of the authors are registered to attend and present the paper in the Congress.
Selected works will be invited to deliver a final version of 2000-2500 words with illustrations for a book publication later on.
Submissions deadline: 31st March 2009
Announcement of selected submissions: 30st April 2009
Registration of selected authors: 30st May 2009