Bernburg, July 30, 2021 – A short report on the DLA 2021

The Digital Landscape Architecture Conference DLA21, held May 26-28 at Anhalt University, remains very popular

We are very happy that this year’s second virtual DLA, organized in Germany, had 780 registrations and close to 400 active participants from 56 countries, keeping the level of participation of last year’s DLA at Harvard University.

Map with the 56 countries of DLA 2021 participants

We offered a compact format moderated through the entire conference by live moderators.

We learned that Digital Landscape Architecture offers tools needed to contribute to the extensive challenges of Resilient Landscape Architecture and Global Change. After the first day of very well received workshops on UAF, Geodesign, and BIM, the second day focused on Resilient Landscape Architecture. The final day was devoted to standardization in landscape architecture, such as Building Information Models – BIM.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, President of the German Environmental Agency, UBA Umweltbundesamt, in his Welcome Address defined the role of technical tools such as digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and digital twins, addressing the objectives of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. The opening keynote speaker, landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom from Thailand, introduced the problem of rainwater management in the completely sealed city of Bangkok. Keynote speaker Mohan S. Rao landscape architect from India introduced his work on integrating all involved parties in addressing issues of global change. The keynotes on the final day focused on Building Information Models and the need for further development towards Landscape Information Models that address environmental factors more adequately.

The DLA offered three parallel sessions with eight different topics in addition to the keynote lectures. The forty-five lectures are already published as open access paper in JoDLA.info

Please see the video documentation of the

• keynote lectures and the panel discussions and the
• presentation files of the fifty lectures and workshops

on the 2021 DLA web page http://2021.dla-conference.com/documentation/

The documentation of the conference is organized by the eight main topics and in the sequence of conference.  You also find the two lectures from the conference on virtually teaching landscape architecture studios, by Prof. Dr. Travis Flohr and Prof. Dr. Jörg Rekittke.

Some of this year’s DLA pictures: The live panel – here during handing over the DLA 2022 to Harvard at the end of the conference, and a snap shot of the communication tool.

A snap shot of the communication tool by the DLA 2021 video conference system

And a big thank you to all authors, speakers, reviewers, moderators, technical supporters,
sponsors and supporters!
The DLA team is already preparing to accept the next abstracts by the dead line of November
1, 2021. Accepted papers will be published in May 2022 for the section of presentations in
Boston in June 2022.
Please submit your extended abstract to our review system by November 1:
https://www.dla-conference.com/