Juan Manuel Palerm Salazar, architect and professor at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) has been elected for the next 4 years term President of UNISCAPE, on the occasion of the meeting of the General Assembly, on 5 July in Venice. Palerm has the role of president of the Network since 2016, when he took over after the resignation of the former president, Prof. Carlo Magnani. In his candidature statement, Palerm stresses on the importance of the Project in the process of constructing the European Landscape.
Conor Newman, geographer and archeologist, professor at the NUI Galway (Ireland) and Catherine Szanto, landscape architect, teacher at the Ecole Supérieure Nationale d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette (France) have been elected vice-Presidents of UNISCAPE. Together they fully represent the diversity of disciplines and expertise that characterize the Landscape in the UNISCAPE network.