Event Brief

Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate 2026 will be a landscape architecture conference of two days with an exhibition as a sequel. This is the main topic of the event: it will reconsider the interaction of nature and society through the lens of climate change. The event is designed to bring excellent landscape architects and scholars together from the three continents Asia, Australia and the United States to give them the opportunity to talk about sustainable design strategies which are based on both historical and contemporary traditions. The conference is academic and dialogic rather than a competitive design competition.

Intent

The event looks into the creative nature visions as they are perceived in different Asian cultures of mountain and water and how these values could contribute to the development of sustainable design in climate change scenarios.

Purpose

The conference acts as a forum to really present different viewpoints, historical accounts, and culture storytelling, as well as the most important projects, from top professionals and researchers. It brings about a unique interdisciplinary dialogue around the ecological, social, and cultural aspects of landscape architecture.

Requirements

The whole event is open to public. There are no predetermined design project submission requirements, as the event format is conference and exhibition forum.

Jury

There will be neither a jury nor any competitive evaluation framework since the event is not intended as a competition.

Fees

The fee information for Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate 2026 is not publicly available in the form of fixed ticket prices or registration fees.

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✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight

Mountain and Water’s designers: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate 2026 acts mainly as an academic and professional forum that deals with landscape architecture in the context of climate change. The focus on interdisciplinary dialogue, cultural narratives, and historical traditions places the event in the domain of research and conceptual exploration rather than competitive evaluation. Participants are engaged in sustainable design strategies and ecological thinking without the constraints of submission requirements or adjudication. From the architectural viewpoint, the event gives a glimpse of the way social and environmental considerations can be integrated into landscape design, while at the same time not being a critical design assessment or formal recognition of innovation venue.

Conclusion 

Mountain and Water’s designers: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate 2026 is a scholarly conference and an exhibition rather than a competitive design event. Eco-friendly design, interdisciplinary communication, and historical context are the main topics of the discussion at this event, which takes place in the realm of academic and cultural debate rather than critical adjudication or competition. The lack of published fee structures and a jury further confirms its status as an open professional forum that values knowledge exchange and conceptual exploration above competitive outcomes.

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