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“Now it is our time” “There is a risk in the rush to restart the economy that climate and environmental concerns are forgotten in a race to restore the status quo. I’d like to think that Landscape Architects will play a more influential role in defining a future that has increased emphasis on resilience, community, local economies, the public realm, and the environment. As James Corner famously ...

Can our landscape design overcome the pandemic? From now on, landscape architects need to provide aesthetics of space that can persuade scientists and policymakers. Landscape architects should be more innovative to provide new design methods and systems that can integrate science into the realm of art. There has always been a gap between the landscape of art and the landscape of numbers. Landscape ...

We see a reverse migration happening now. In India, people are moving from cities to rural areas. Government authorities should recognize this trend and plan towards sustainable rural development which could ease the pressure on Indian cities. Public Open Spaces shall become the focus of the Public Health Policy with a cross-disciplinary collaboration leading to healing spaces, at the local ...

“We neglected the signs the earth has given us.” This pandemic is a really hard warning that we really have to give more attention to the earth. Proper use of resources, balanced use of materials, life-water-carbon-cycle should be kept in mind, and realised in our daily life so that our next generation will find that their ancestors are caring parents.

“The coronavirus has taught us that nature is the owner of this world. Not the people.” In Kuala Lumpur, the Gombak river that for hundred years flowing with murky and contaminated water seems to be clear and less polluted during the pandemic. We learned that nature can be healed. We learned that we have lots of energy and spirit to keep this world healthier and greener. We are the steward of the ...

“Under the pandemic, we need to know how much more time do people spend outdoors per day, and the types of things they do, in order to understand a change of demand to open space in cities, quantitatively and qualitatively” The threat of the pandemic brought also opportunities for the landscape architectural profession taking the lead to study and to incorporate measures in city development that ...

“We would like to receive information regarding COVID-19 and we would like to share the epidemic prevention measures in Taiwan since they run pretty well.” A crisis might be the turning point. Isolation due to COVID-19 could be an opportunity letting us break the physical boundaries and actualize the ‘without border’ community.”

“The design education resources can be integrated and distributed to everyone online which will make the design education more equitable and adaptive for our society” The global spread of Covid-19 is causing great concern. But it cannot change the general trend of globalization. Upholding the vision of a global community of shared futures, we should support each other and join hands to protect the ...

“We have an opportunity to define a new normal.” Demand that our countries’ COVID-19 fiscal stimulus packages carefully consider the longterm impact on the ecosystems we are part of; creating resilience to external future shocks like COVID-19, natural disasters, and climate change by decarbonizing our economies to avoid imposing significant stranded asset costs on future generations.

Our profession needs to shift from the act of just ‘greening’ up of urban spaces to incorporating the understanding of ecosystem services in our design – understanding the balance between hard and soft surfaces, encouraging coexistence between humans and biodiversity. In return, we will be able to maximise the use of space and reduce the need of maintenance making landscape spaces more sustainable ...