Government advisor on Landscape and Water, Professor of Cultural History and Spatial Design. 

"European landscape architecture and cultural landscape challenges in Europe"

Professor Eric Luiten is an independent landscape architect and part-time Professor of Heritage and Spatial Design (Belvedere Chair) at Delft University of Technology. In that capacity he is undertaking research into the transformation of rural and urban heritage. He is an expert on European Landscape Architecture. He was curator of the international event ‘A Wider View on Cultural Landscapes in Europe’, which was part of the first Triënnale Apeldoorn in 2008. His current research concerns Cultural Landscape Challenges in Europe.

Winner of the Rosa Barba Price 2012, EMF Landscape architects Girona, teacher at ETSAB Barcelona. 

"Environmental restorations. Reclaiming landscape from tourism in Europe"

Martí Franch founded Estudio EMF in 1999 after his professional training in Barcelona, Amsterdam, London and Berlin. EMF is a team of landscape architects, architects and agricultural technical engineers. Among their projects are the organisation of the banks of river Têt in Perpignan, the environmental restoration project of Club Med at Cap de Creus - which won them the Rosa Barba Prize 2012 - the cemetery of Laroque des Alberes, and many more.

Anouk Vogel Landscape architecture. 

"Small scale, Big Design. Small interventions with big impact in the public space" 

Anouk Vogel studied landscape architecture at the Metropolitan University of Manchester in England where she graduated in 2001 with Honours and Distinction. After her studies she moved to the Netherlands where she has been working and living since.  In 2007, after having worked for West 8, Bureau B+B, and Petra Blaisse, she founded her own practice for landscape architecture and design in Amsterdam. Her work spans gardens, temporary installations, buildings, interiors and street furniture. She is the winner of several international competitions among which is the competition to design furniture for Amsterdam’s most famous city park, the Vondelpark. Teaching experiences include the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and the Design Academy of Eindhoven. In addition to her projects, Vogel is regularly invited to give lectures and write articles on an international level.

Founding partner at Taktyk (Brussels/Paris), Winner of the Topos Landscape Award 2012. Research doctorate at RMIT Melbourne and teacher at ENSP Versailles.

"Curation and mediation of complex change processes"

Thierry Kandjee is a landscape architect, lecturer, editor and state advisor. He has lectured and led design studios in a number of universities around the globe, including QUT Brisbane (AUS), RMIT Melbourne (AUS), Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, TU Berlin, ENSP Versailles and Sint Lucas in Ghent (BE).

Foto's: Joost Bataille

Lisa Mackenzie consultancy, member of n-o-m-a-d (Network of Multimedia, Architecture and Design). Member of the Landscape Institute and Lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art.

"Future Landscapes, Senses of Place"

In her Capita Selecta lecture Lisa Mackenzie discusses the significance of adopting a deeply investigative and contemplative approach to reading landscapes. She will present a number of works that illustrate a curiosity in the meaning of 'place' including a floating open air gallery in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.