Retrospective of the 17th Weihenstephaner Forum Landscape Architecture and Planning 2024

The 17th Weihenstephan Forum, organized by the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Regional Open Spaces (LAREG), was a great success. On October 25, numerous interested people gathered on the Weihenstephan campus to gain exciting insights into the theory and practice of landscape architecture. Under the theme “LAND CRED landscape credibility”, the event posed the question: Who can, may and should design cultural landscapes today, and how are they changing as a result? The contributions inspired a collective reflection on the future of our living spaces and the role of society in actively shaping them.

“LANDscape CREDibility - Cultural landscape as the work and measure of everyday life”

The lectures were divided into two thematic blocks:

• Landscape as the human work of everyday life - the human landscape condition
• Landscape as a human measure of everyday spaces - the human landscape scale

The speakers presented innovative projects and well-founded perspectives, which led the audience to lively discussions.

Thematic focus of the Forum 2024

The Weihenstephaner Forum 2024 was dedicated to the social and aesthetic aspects of the transformation of urban and cultural landscapes. The focus was on the question of how the goals and methods of landscape design can be credibly communicated - not just to “take along” citizens, but to actively empower and inspire them to help shape their environment themselves.

The forum emphasized the importance of creative and intergenerational participation in planning and transformation processes, far beyond formal participation. The European cultural landscape served as a model - with its wealth of biological and social diversity, uniqueness and beauty. It was about more than protection, but rather about the right to landscape, as demanded by the European Landscape Convention, to which Germany has not yet acceded.