2026 WG3 Regional Workshop Kraków: Landscape Archive in Education – Identifying Gaps, Needs and Wishes

In 2026, WG3 members organised four Regional Workshops with the overarching aim of initiating dialogue between teachers and students to identify their wishes and needs, and where possible to begin co-creating new methods and tools for using landscape architecture archives and archival materials in education. This co-creation process will continue into 2027. 

The morning session featured three case studies on the use of archive materials in landscape architecture education. Dr. Katarzyna Hodor and Oliwia Szadkowska demonstrated the use of archives for historical-compositional studies of parks and gardens; Dr. Monika Bogdanowska presented Janusz Bogdanowski’s sketchbooks as a tool for understanding design through drawing; and Dr. Anna Steuer-Jurek showed how historical maps can be used to trace physical changes in composed landscapes. 

The afternoon consisted of a brainstorming session – conducted in parallel online and onsite – in which participants discussed innovative ways of using archival materials in education and identified key gaps, needs, and wishes around archive use in teaching.