地点：加拿大艾伯特的卡尔加里（Calgary , Alberta / Canada）
主题：在边缘上的景观（LANDSCAPES ON THE EDGE）
主办单位：国际景观设计师联盟（IFLA）
承办单位：加拿大景观设计师协会（CSLA）
大会邀请了6位国际著名景观设计师担任大会的主题演讲嘉宾，他们分别是Thomas Homer-Dixon、Carl Steinitz、Douglas Paterson、Martha Schwartz、Michel Desvigne、俞孔坚。
嘉宾英文介绍：
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas has received acclaim for his most recent book The Ingenuity Gap, for which he was awarded the Governor General“s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Now the Director of the Center for the Study of Peace and Conflict at the University of Toronto, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Thomas has achieved his BA in Political Science from Carlton University, and his PhD in Political Science from MIT. In recent years, his research has focused on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecologic and technical change.
Carl Steinitz
Carl is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University where he has been teaching since 1966. His interests are reflected in his teaching and research on Landscape change, methods of landscape analysis, visual quality and landscape planning and design. In 1984, he received the Outstanding Educator Award of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture; he also received the 1996 Distinguished Practitioner Award from the International Association for Landscape Ecology (USA).
Douglas Paterson
Douglas obtained his BSc. from the University of Manitoba in 1964 and his MLA from the University of Michigan in 1967. He has a distinguished professional, academic and community service record. He was a founding partner in the Lombard North Group, a major interdisciplinary environmental planning firm in western Canada. Professor Paterson publishes and presents regularly on his research interests in landscape experience, place theory and urban design. He has been a member of the Vancouver Urban Design panel and a member and Chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission.
Martha Schwartz
Martha is Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1973 followed by her MLA in 1977. She also completed the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Landscape Architecture Program in the same year. Today, she owns her own company, Martha Schwartz Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts which is dedicated to providing a full range of landscape design services conceived and executed at the highest artistic level possible. Her firm specializes in landscape design and site-specific public art commissions.
Michel Desvigne
Michel is a landscape architect working in Paris, France. He received the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (2000), and has worked with leading international architects, including Sir Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas (O.M.A.), Jean Nouvel, I.M. Pei, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Among Michel“s international landscape projects are the Millennium Park in London“s Greenwich Peninsula; the Port Marianne area in Montpellier; the Jardin James Joyce in Paris“ Seine-Rive Gauche area; the Sieroterapico Park in Milan; a public square near Amsterdam; and large parks surrounding the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, and the Fort Thungen Museum of Modern Art in Kirchberg, Luxembourg. Michel“s early experiences as a sculptor have given him unusual insight into contemporary art that, in tandem with his deep knowledge of the landscape, make his designs compelling and interactive.
Kongjian Yu（俞孔坚）
Born in 1963, Zhejiang“ Jinghua City, Kongjian Yu received his Doctor of Design Degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 1995. After two years of working as a landscape architect and urban designer with the SWA Group at Laguna Beach, CA, he returned to China and joined the Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences at Beijing University. Dr. Yu publishes widely, including more than 120 papers and 4 books. His major research fields include: the theory and method of landscape security patterns; the cultural aspect of landscape; landscape perception and the methodology of urban planning and design. He is currently the founder and director of the Center for Landscape Architecture and Planning, and founder and president of Turen Design Institute that has more than 120 designers and is the largest design firm in China focusing on landscape architecture.
