News from our Member - Czech Association for Landscape Architecture (ČAKA)
- On 8 February 2023, the ČAKA Board organized a professional workshop entitled RURAL LANDSCAPE - SPACE FOR LIFE. The organisers were Klára Salzmann from the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University, and Zuzana Skřivanová from the Czech-Moravian Land Consolidation Chamber. The workshop focused on agricultural landscapes from different perspectives. Under the overarching theme of environmental quality, the workshop focused on processes and tools that can influence the agricultural landscape - agricultural policy, land use planning, land development, nature conservation. A total of 15 speakers took the floor with a general summary of the main issues defining the problems of agricultural landscapes, followed by a session dedicated to land consolidation process, and to various approaches to landscape planning in the Czech Republic. Finally, a lively round table with recommendations for further action was held.
The up-to-dateness of the topic and the need for the discussion was also evident thanks to the number of registered participants who filled the large hall at the FA CTU. A total of 165 people attended, mainly from the ranks of mayors, state and local government officials, farmers, land consolidation planners, landscape architects, spatial planners, and students.
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- The IFLA EU Reconsidering Nature exhibition, whose gala opening in the Czech Republic was prepared by ČAKA at the Czech Technical University for the Landscape Day, is currently on display at the Regional Library in town of Liberec from the end of January to mid-March as part of the weeks for the non-profit sector. The exhibition is on loan by the Association of Non-Profit Organizations of the Liberec Region.
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- On 21 February, a public meeting of CAKA will be held in Prague 7 - Holesovice. The programme of the event includes not only the election of members of the CAKA Board, evaluation of last year activities and the outlook for the next year, and also reports from the Czech Chamber of Architects’ Landscape Architecture Working Group, especially regarding the recodification of the building law, which strongly affects landscape architects, information from IFLA EU, the planned excursion of ÖGLA - Austrian Association of Landscape Architects to the Czech Republic, Landscape Day and IFLA EU exhibition.
