The LANDSCAPE IN FOCUS (LANDSCAPE FOR MUNICIPALITIES) project is designed to help small and medium-sized municipalities plan, make decisions and solve landscape-related problems while stimulating interest in landscape among the wider public.
We would like to present inspiring approaches that aim at sustainable landscape use through conceptual planning
and decision-making. Topics we consider important include environmentally friendly approaches such as practices to improve biodiversity and mitigate the consequences and impacts of climate change, as well as raising awareness of the social, cultural and aesthetic dimensions of the landscape. We see landscape architecture as a key discipline for achieving these goals.
WHY?
Mayors and councillors of small and medium-sized municipalities do not have large teams at their disposal and often lack experts who can focus on landscape and the environment. This leads to difficulties in planning and decision-making in the area, whether it is the built-up parts of the municipality or the open countryside. An important and often difficult task is the involvement of the inhabitants of the municipality in decision-making in the area. The aim of the project is to help provide information, tools and procedures that will help small municipal leaders to navigate the issues of open and built landscape and to support them in conceptual and sustainable decision-making in the municipality with regard to land use needs and an environmentally and climate friendly approach.
Outputs
The output of the project is a set of good practice examples and a brief handbook describing tools, practical procedures and concrete solutions that link environmental issues (especially climate change adaptation), with municipal development and architectural quality of place with economic sustainability, i.e. topics addressed by landscape architecture.
LANDSCAPE IN FOCUS (Tools for small municipalities for sustainable Landscape) is a two-year (2024-2026) project funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ programme and implemented with foreign partners BDLA (Germany), MARK (Finland), SPU Nitra (Slovakia) and Czech partner IEPS.