Entries by Lazar Pavlovic
2026 WG3 Catalogue Teaching with Landscape Architecture Archives
The Catalogue teaching with Landscape Architecture Archives is the result of a collaborative effort of members of the ConnectLAA project and their colleagues. The Catalogue compiles 30 examples of courses and teaching modules that integrate archives and archival materials as educational sources. In the first year of the project, the WG3, dedicated to Education, mapped […]
2026 WG1 Workshop on early-phase archival acquisition protocols (Amasya)
Titled “Develop and standardise early-phase archival acquisition protocols,” this hybrid workshop addressed the transition from scattered fieldwork data and private collections to professional archival management. Contributing to WG1’s Tasks T1.3 and T1.4 (Deliverables D3 and D4), the session used the Yalıboyu Evleri (Riverfront Houses) Digital Inventory in Amasya as a case study. Discussion centred on […]
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. […]
2025 ConnectLAA event “Towards Collaborative Archives”
This two-day event brought together experts and practitioners to explore the future of collaborative archives in landscape architecture, heritage preservation, and beyond, with 11 participants attending onsite and 10 joining online. The meeting focused on advancing WG1’s collaborative inventory roadmap through metadata and technical planning for the online archive map, brainstorming second-year activities and STSM […]
Report on the current situation of European landscape architecture research (D5) published in OA
We’re happy to share that the report Report on the current situation of European landscape architecture research with respect to landscape architecture archives (Deliverable 5) based on our preliminary research carried out within COST Action CA23128 ConnectLAA, is now available in open access on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/20089032 Staniewska, A., Mexi, A., Brinkhuijsen, M., van Hellemondt, I., […]
Designing With Archives Earns International Competition Prize
Students supervised by WG3 member Professor Gintaras Stauskis (Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas, Lithuania) were awarded 2nd Prize in the LE:NOTRE Institute International Student Competition. In their winning project, “Reweaving the Costa Couros Corridor”, students Vaida Kulikauskaite, Augustinas Rudys, and Baltrus Vileikis intensively used archival materials to understand the context and draw inspiration for reconnecting the city of Guimarães with its river. Their success shows that designing with archives can be a rewarding approach! Vaida Kulikauskaite and Augustinas Rudys received […]
2026 WG1 Hybrid Meeting, Budapest – Exploring landscape architecture through archival records
The workshop focused on exploring the role of archival records in landscape architecture research, education, and practice. Participants were introduced to the structure and organisation of the Budapest City Archives, learned how to navigate archival catalogues and finding aids, and gained insight into the processes through which historical documents become accessible archival records. Discussions also highlighted the educational potential of landscape architecture archives across different age groups and explored interoperability challenges and opportunities for improving access to archival materials within the discipline.
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 […]
2026 WG1 Best practices – Online Lecture
WG1 continued the online Best practices – lectures on WG1-related topics with two presentations on Iberian Landscape Architecture Memory on AtoM, and on the Roadmap for the digitisation of Landscape Architecture records. Maria João Fonseca gave a presentation on an ongoing project called ILAM (Iberian Landscape Architecture Memory) and how this initiative is taking place on AtoM. Maria showcased in practice how […]