Tuesday

May 11, 2010

Wednesday

May 12, 2010

Thursday

May 13, 2010

Friday

May 14, 2010

Morning

Registration

Opening session

Plenary key note speeches

Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions

Conference tours

Afternoon

Pre-registration from

16:00 - 20:00 hours

at MECC

Parallel sessions

Parallel sessions

Evening

Welcome reception

Farewell diner

Welcome reception at the 17th Century Town Hall, Markt 78 Maastricht.

The old Town Hall (Stadhuis), in the Markt, was built by Pieter Post between 1658 and 1644 as a Cloth Hall. It has a neo-classical facade with pilasters and a handsome doorway approached by an imposing double staircase, designed to enable the two rulers of Maastricht, the Duke of Brabant and the Prince-Bishop of Liège, to enter the Town Hall simultaneously. In the tower (1684) is a Hemony carillon of 43 bells. Notable features of the interior are the tapestries, the stucco ornament, the ceiling paintings and the fine chimney pieces.

The welcome reception is offered by the Municipality of Maastricht.

18:30

Departure busses from MECC to the farewell diner

Diner at Fortress Sint Pieter, Luikerweg 80, Maastricht

In 1702, the famous Fortress Sint Pieter was built high above Maastricht, on Mount Sint Pieter. The fort, built on a pentagonal plan, has bomb-proof rooms and a circular gallery with embrasures and a number of old cannons. Fortress Sint Pieter offers a unique combination of history reaching back many centuries and a marvelous view over the city of Maastricht and the Meuse valley.

During the diner there will be an option to join a 15-20 minutes guided tour in the fortress (to be confirmed).

Diedrich Bruns

Dr. Diedrich Bruns, the current president of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), is the founding principal of ‘Landscape Ecology & Planning Consultants’. Since 1986 the firm has been a leader in ecological planning and design for urban and other cultural landscapes. Nature Development and flood risk management are areas of special expertise. In addition, since 1996, Diedrich Bruns is the Professor for Landscape Planning at the School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, Kassel University, Germany. Previous academic appointments were at the University of Toronto, Ont., Stuttgart University, Germany, and University of Minnesota, MN. His current research interests are on the planning methods for cultural landscapes in increasingly international urban societies.

http://cms.uni-kassel.de

Catharine Ward-Thompson

Catharine Ward-Thompson is a Professor at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on inclusive access to outdoor environments, environment-behaviour interactions, historic landscapes and contemporary needs, landscape design for older people, for children and for teenagers, and salutogenic environments. Since 2001, she has been Director of OPENspace – the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments – based at Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot-Watt University. See www.openspace.eca.ac.uk

She currently directs the I’DGO (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors) research consortium, a collaboration with Salford and Oxford Brookes Universities focused on ensuring that the outdoor environment is designed inclusively and with sensitivity to the needs and desires of older people, to improve their quality of life (see www.idgo.ac.uk). She is also member of SPARColl, the Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration, led by Strathclyde University, contributing expertise on relationships between physical environment and health.

http://eca.academia.edu/CatharineWardThompson

Tracy Metz (discussion leader)

Writer and journalist Tracy Metz, a native of California, is a staff writer at the Art Desk of the quality Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and visiting fellow and a Loeb Fellow ’07 at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University. She was a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Institute of Spatial Research, a member of the Council of Rural Affairs and a member of the Delta Commission that advised government on water safety. She writes about spatial issues such as architecture, urbanism, landscape and mobility, both in the Netherlands and in the US where she is also an international correspondent for Architectural Record. She is the author of a number of books, including ‘FUN! Leisure and Landscape’ about the influence of leisure on our surroundings, and ‘On the Ground: Observations from Harvard’. She is now working on a new book, ‘Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch’.

Eindhoven, Netherlands