Working Group 4

Communication & Dissemination

Mission

WG4 ensures that the Action’s goals, outputs, and resources reach a wide audience, including researchers, professionals, policymakers, and the public, through targeted communication and open-access dissemination. It uses both centralised and distributed platforms to share knowledge and foster engagement across disciplines and borders.

Key Activities

1. Action Website & Social Media Strategy

Creating and managing a central knowledge hub and developing public outreach.

Activities:

  • Developing and maintaining the website.
  • Implementing a social media strategy.

2. Developing a Multilingual Archival Glossary

Creating a collaborative, Wiki-based glossary of archival terms and landscape architectural terms translated by Action members to support cross-disciplinary understanding.

Activities:

  • Wikithons to define and translate key terms and concepts of archival science and landscape architecture.

3. Draft Policy Recommendations

Proposing policies to preserve LA archival heritage for future generations.

Activity:

  • A workshop to formulate actionable policy guidance.

4. Sharing Research Outputs

Promoting the Action’s findings through scholarly channels.

Activities:

  • Produce at least 3 academic papers.
  • Present at a minimum of 3 conferences, including the Action’s final conference.

5. Public Outreach & Engagement

Engaging the wider public – NGOs, governments, schools, professionals – through various media and public events.

Activity:

  • Publish online content, run an online exhibition.
  • Invite public bodies to participate in the final conference.

Recent Activites of Working Group 4

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Joint WG3 Seminar: Gaps, Needs and Wishes of Using Archival Materials in Teaching
WG3 organised a joint online seminar to synthesise findings from the four Regional Workshops held between January and March 2026. During the seminar, Regional Workshop organisers reported their specific working methods and results; participants then took part in two interactive activities on the Miro platform to summarise key findings and define what constitutes “archival materials” in the context of […]
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2026 WG3 Regional Workshop Copenhagen: Archives as Learning Settings
In 2026, WG3 members organized four Regional Workshops. The overarching aim of these Regional Workshops is to initiate dialogue between teachers and students to identify their wishes and needs, and if possible, to start co-creating new methods and tools for using landscape architecture archives and archival materials in education. This co-creation process will continue into 2027. […]
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2026 WG3 Regional Workshop Lisbon: Archives in the Classroom: Barriers, Wishes, and Needs
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 Lisbon Regional […]