Digital Landscape Architecture Conference DLA

JoDLA 10-2025, with 68 contributions on all current Digital Landscape Architecture issues, on 754 pages, is now in print and has been shipped out. As always, all articles will be online last week of May, one week before DLA 2025!

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Cover image by Jörg Rekittke, Angela Hayles (2025)

FULL PAPER REVIEW for JoDLA 10-2025 completed! – February 25, 2025

68 of the original 98 author teams that submitted extended abstracts at the end of last October will be published as a peer-reviewed open access publication in June 2025. See the authors as speakers at DLA Con 2025 in Dessau.

The papers cover the main theme Collaboration of this year’s International Conference on Digital Landscape Architecture DLA from the world wide to the local scale. This year, authors come from 24 countries. Sixty-nine blind reviewers first evaluated the abstracts and during the two phase review process gave very substantial guidance for developing the papers for scientific publication.

Results of Abstract Review for JoDLA 2024 – December 1, 2024

Welcome to Vienna

Digital Landscape Architecture Conference 2024

June 5 to 7, 2024
New Trajectories in Computational Urban Landscapes and Ecology
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

DLA Gallery 2024 Vienna 

Open Access Presentation of JoDLA 9-2024

February 2024
SECOND DOUBLE BLIND REVIEW COMPLETED
As result of the full paper review, 97 papers have been accepted for publication in JoDLA 9-2024. Congratulations!
The review was powered by OpenConf and 83 reviewers – Thank you and see you all in Vienna!

December 2023

131 submissions to JoDLA 9-2023 have been invited to be submitted as a full paper for further review. This is the result of 455 blind reviews of the 147 extended abstracts submitted.

We look forward to receiving the anonymous full papers for review at the latest by
January 10, 2024.

Season’s Greetings

Dr. Ervin Stephen and his team at the GSD managed to further develop a very interactive way of communication and participation for both the in person and virtual participants. Thanks to a large Video Communication Team with several cameras and many monitors a hybrid sense of interaction between the remote and local contributors was possible. The peer-reviewed papers from each of the 60 speakers were published in the JoDLA and available to all registered participants before the conference. Speakers prepared a 7 minute video presentation though many speakers supplemented it with live dialogue, The presentation sessions, including the remarkable keynote speakers were recorded and can be viewed at www.DLA-conference,com.

Additionally, all papers are published with color graphics in the 715-page Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture JoDLA 7-2022.The publisher Wichmann offers the last 10 years of publication of the DLA conferences under an Open Access license at  www.JoDLA.info .

We are now looking forward to receive the next extended abstracts for the 24th DLA Conference, which will be held May 24 to 28, 2023 in Dessau, at the famous Bauhaus campus and organized by Anhalt University. Extended Abstracts can be submitted between October 1 and November 1, 2023. Please follow  www.dla-conference.com for the documentation and further announcements.

December 05, 2021 – Extended Abstract Review for Journal of Landscape Architecture JoDLA 7-2022 (jodla.info) is completed.

Ninety-three extended abstracts were reviewed by a jury of 63 reviewers for the next edition of Journal of Landscape Architecture JoDLA 7-2022. Each abstract was evaluated anonymously by at least four reviewers.
Based on the 386 completed reviews, the editors accepted 78 submissions for full paper submission.
These authors are invited to submit a Full Paper by January 10, 2022 for the second blind review phase.
The editor of JoDLA received entries from 27 countries. We note that the 13 rejected abstracts come from 9 different countries. We are pleased with the increasing quality of writing from non-native speaking countries and their contribution of striking research that merits peer-reviewed scientific publication in the field of digital landscape architecture. The annual DLA conference and the JoDLA have become truly international venues.
The next deadlines are now:

• Full manuscript submission due: January 10, 2022
• Manuscript reviews returned: February 15, 2022

Please follow the upcoming announcements concerning the next conference on Digital Landscape Architecture DLA from June 9-10, 2022 at the GSD in Harvard, where most of these papers will be presented: https://2022.dla-conference.com/home/
Season`s Greetings and best wishes for safe and healthy New Year Dear colleagues.
For the team of editors,
Erich Buhmann, JoDLA office DLA-JoDLA@t-online.de

Boston and Bernburg, September 15, 2021:
Review System for JoDLA 7-2022 and DLA 2022 in Boston is active

 The 23rd Annual International HYBRID Digital Landscape Architecture Conference will be held at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cambridge Massachusetts USA (public health considerations allowing), and simultaneously / asynchronously on-line.

The Main Theme and Suggested Topics: “Hybrid Landscapes”

“We live in an increasingly hybrid world. Hybrid plants; hybrid cars; hybrid teaching and learning; hybrid workplaces; hybrid landscapes…. What “hybrid vigor” can the hybridization of the analog and the digital offer to landscape architects, urban/environmental designers, and planetary citizens?”

We invite you to contribute to this conference on all aspects of technologies in landscape architecture. The “Extended Abstract” should have a minimum of 1200 and a maximum of 2000 words of unpublished findings including key references. As your submission will be reviewed blind, you are asked to avoid names of your authors and organizations in your text. Your contribution will be identified only by the submission number.

Additionally we are asking you to upload a file with your extended abstract, key references and selected graphics as pdf file. Please make sure that this upload is also anonymous. The review system is allowing only one upload; the latest upload is always replacing the earlier upload of your submission.

Submission date line for extended abstracts: November 1, 2021

Please submit direct at https://dla.fab.hs-rm.de:8081/dla-2022/openconf.php

You’ll find the link to the JoDLA Review System also on the home page of the DLA 2022 conference https://2022.dla-conference.com

Accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper by Jan. 10, 2022, for a second-round fully blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published as papers in JoDLA Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 7–2022 by Wichmann VDE Verlag, Berlin-Offenbach. See last year’s JoDLA 6-2021 at https://gispoint.de/liste-artikel/jodla/issue-6-2021.html

The Digital Landscape Architecture Conference DLA21, held May 26-28 at Anhalt University, remains very popular

We are very happy that this year’s second virtual DLA, organized in Germany, had 780 registrations and close to 400 active participants from 56 countries, keeping the level of participation of last year’s DLA at Harvard University.

Map with the 56 countries of DLA 2021 participants

We offered a compact format moderated through the entire conference by live moderators.

We learned that Digital Landscape Architecture offers tools needed to contribute to the extensive challenges of Resilient Landscape Architecture and Global Change. After the first day of very well received workshops on UAF, Geodesign, and BIM, the second day focused on Resilient Landscape Architecture. The final day was devoted to standardization in landscape architecture, such as Building Information Models – BIM.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, President of the German Environmental Agency, UBA Umweltbundesamt, in his Welcome Address defined the role of technical tools such as digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and digital twins, addressing the objectives of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. The opening keynote speaker, landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom from Thailand, introduced the problem of rainwater management in the completely sealed city of Bangkok. Keynote speaker Mohan S. Rao landscape architect from India introduced his work on integrating all involved parties in addressing issues of global change. The keynotes on the final day focused on Building Information Models and the need for further development towards Landscape Information Models that address environmental factors more adequately.

The DLA offered three parallel sessions with eight different topics in addition to the keynote lectures. The forty-five lectures are already published as open access paper in JoDLA.info

Please see the video documentation of the

• keynote lectures and the panel discussions and the
• presentation files of the fifty lectures and workshops

on the 2021 DLA web page http://2021.dla-conference.com/documentation/

The documentation of the conference is organized by the eight main topics and in the sequence of conference.  You also find the two lectures from the conference on virtually teaching landscape architecture studios, by Prof. Dr. Travis Flohr and Prof. Dr. Jörg Rekittke.

Some of this year’s DLA pictures: The live panel – here during handing over the DLA 2022 to Harvard at the end of the conference, and a snap shot of the communication tool.

A snap shot of the communication tool by the DLA 2021 video conference system

And a big thank you to all authors, speakers, reviewers, moderators, technical supporters,sponsors and supporters!
The DLA team is already preparing to accept the next abstracts by the dead line of November 1, 2021. Accepted papers will be published in May 2022 for the section of presentations in Boston in June 2022.
Please submit your extended abstract to our review system by November 1:
https://www.dla-conference.com/

Welcome

While the conference is frequently hosted on the Anhalt University Campus adjacent to the Bauhaus World Heritage Site in Dessau; Germany or on the nearby campus in Bernburg, the DLA has also been hosted by landscape architecture faculties in Valletta, Zürich, Istanbul, Munich and Boston.

Papers are selected by a two-phase peer review process. Accepted papers are published in the Journal Digital Landscape Architecture JoDLA. Authors of outstanding papers are then invited to speak at the conference. The journal publishes original papers that address theoretical and practical issues, innovative developments, methods, applications, findings, and case studies that are drawn primarily from work presented at the annual DLA conference. Its intent is to encourage the broad dissemination of these ideas, innovations, and practices. The JoDLA is listed in the international citation database Scopus.

The JoDLA has an open access policy. Past issues are available at jodla.info

We encourage you to participate in the DLA.

130 Landscape Architects from thirty countries attending the 20th Digital Landscape Architecture Conference DLA

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