WDM 5_23 Lecture | Applying the Latin America Landscape Initiative

General subject area |  landscape observatory; landscape and well-being; landscape policy and governance

Abstract | “The Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI ) is  is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles to promote the recognition, valuation, protection, management, and sustainable planning of Latin American landscapes by means of the adoption of agreements (laws-accords-decrees-regulations) that recognize local, regional, and national diversity and values, tangible so much as intangible, of landscape, as well as principles and processes to safeguard it”.

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Martha Fajardo is a Colombian Landscape Architect, with a master’s degree in landscape design and a receiver of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt), from The University of Sheffield. She is also an architect. She has over 38 years’ experience in leading national and international roles, playing a key role in establishing the profession in countries all around the globe. Martha is founder and CEO of Grupo Verde SAS (www.grupoverdeltda.com), a firm dedicated to the professional practice of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism and Urban Design, in the company of the Japanese urban planner Noboru Kawashima.
Former President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), the only professional body representing all landscape architects on a global level. She cofounded and was the first President of the Colombian Society of Landscape Architects (SAP), and Honorary member.
She cofounded and chaired the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI), a bottom-up movement with a horizontal, transdisciplinary, and cross-cutting trajectory that brings together civil society, academia, public institutions, and other parties to safeguard the Latin American landscapes.
Martha is at the Board of Directors member of Nature of Cities (TNOC) a creative collective to strive for cities worldwide that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just.

Claudia Misteli, Social communicator, journalist and social designer, interested in how design, communication and social innovation can shape and reshape a more resilient and sustainable future. A strong believer that empathy, creativity, cooperation and the force of landscape opens up infinite opportunities to build better societies, more connected to nature and people. Her main projects have been in the field of strategic communication and social innovation. She is currently volunteering in the Latin American Landscape Initiative LALI as leader of the Communication and Participation Cluster. She also collaborates with The Nature of Cities at TNOC Festival as curator and content creator. She currently works at Platoniq Foundation in Barcelona Spain, supporting the design of digital participatory processes and facilitating innovative participatory methodologies to contribute to build more democratic and just societies and organisations, using open civic technologies.

Daniela Colafranceschi is Architect, Phd in Architectural Design, Full Professor of Landscape Architecture, at the Federico II University of Naples (Italy), DIARC Department.
At the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria (1991-2022) she was Responsible for international relations and Erasmus activities and Coordinator of PhD course on Landscape Architecture. She is also Professor of the PhD on Landscape and Environment of the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and was External Expert of the PhD in Landscape Architecture of the University of Florence.
She is President of IASLA (Italian Academic Society of Landscape Architecture)Associacion and member of the Executive Board of UNISCAPE.
She is Visiting Professor for the Universities: ETSAB,UPC,UPF,UAB of Barcellona; ENA-Rabat (Morocco);TU Addis Abeba (Ethiopia);Pinar del Rio (Cuba); Lusiada (Portugal) UTH (Greece), Montevideo and Salto-FARQ (Uruguay); UN,UCC,UNER eUNL (Argentina) and Critic Visiting at the Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia LD (USA) and KU Leuven (Belgium). She is Scientific Responsible of the European Erasmus Programme CHANGING LANDSCAPES. MEDITERRANEAN SENSITIVE AREAS DESIGN” (2008-11).
Since 2000 she is also the series Director of “Land&Scapes” books for the Gustavo Gili- that awared an Honorable Mention at PremiFAD 2011- and Director of the L&SCAPE Series for Libria.