6th bdla designer talks 2024

In November 2024, the Designers’ Talks of the Association of German Landscape Architects (bdla) will take place for the sixth time. This year, the focus is on new aesthetics that are needed in architecture and landscape architecture in times of climate change. All landscape architects who are active in design can register.

“We have to rethink: leave our own comfort zone and question the images and processes we are used to,” says the bdla. According to the association, in times of climate change with all its manifestations, a new way of thinking and aesthetics are needed in architecture and landscape architecture for public open spaces and buildings. Design will also be scrutinized at the 6th bdla Designers’ Talks on November 1 and 2 in Berlin in order to find out more about the changing processes and the path to the built work.

All landscape architects who work in design and have an interest in the challenges of climate change are invited to the talks. Some of the talks will be held in English. The bdla has applied for recognition as an advanced training course by the Chamber of Architects and participants will receive a bdla advanced training certificate. Registration is possible here until October 18.

The 6th bdla Designers’ Talks in Berlin will begin with a welcome address by Timo Herrmann, bdla Vice President and moderator of the event. This will be followed by a lecture by Prof. Bart Brands, landscape architect and lecturer in Landscape Urbanism at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. The topic will be the future of nature and landscape architecture. Next, Oliver Bormann and Mario Abel, urban planners and architects at Yellow Z in Berlin, will give a lecture on the topic of “It’s already there”.

After the lunch break, Giulia Frittoli Louise Mould, landscape architect at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in Copenhagen, will talk about uninhabitable landscape and how to design cities for people and the planet. This lecture will be in English, as will the following one by Martin Laursen, urban planner and architect at ADEPT in Copenhagen. He will talk about “Holistic cities, buildings and landscapes”.

This will be followed later in the afternoon by lectures by Martin Schmitz, landscape architect at Atelier Loidl in Berlin, and Prof. Undine Giseke with Dr. Carlo Becker from bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten in Berlin. Afterwards, participants can attend a dinner.

On the second day of the bdla Designer Talks, Franz Resche will give the welcome address, followed by a lecture by Trine Tydeman and Jacob Kamp, landscape architects from 1:1 Landskab in Valby. Their presentation is entitled “Finding the balance between city-life, biodiversity and climate change through landscape architecture”. Marie-Theres Okresek, landscape architect at bauchplan ).(, will then talk about how form follows climate. Prof. Dr. Sigrun Langner, landscape architect at Station C23 in Leipzig and professor at the Bauhaus University Weimar, will then provide insights into how climate landscapes can be designed.

In the afternoon of the second day, Prof. Arno Brandlhuber and Olaf Grawert, landscape architects and co-initiators of HouseEurope! will talk about their initiative for affordable, uncomplicated and socially oriented building refurbishment. Finally, Prof. Antje Stokman, landscape architect and professor at HafenCity University Hamburg, will give a lecture entitled “Curating landscapes. For a learning and collaborative practice of landscape architecture in climate change”. This will be followed by a final discussion.

By the way: The bdla also organizes annual plant planner talks, this year on 18 and 19 September in Munich.