SAPE - Ecuador Society of Landscape Architects IFLA – SAPE Americas Regional Conference 2013
LALI the 2nd INTERNATIONAL FORUM GUAYAQUIL Theme: The Landscape as Catalyst Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Sede Guayaquil
Latin American Landscape Initiative Wednesday 30 October 2013
"There are several reasons why it had never before be spoken as much as now about the landscape, and one of them is the role that the landscape has always had in the formation and consolidation of territorial identities. This is the reason that explains that the landscape act as a catalyst, increasing the backbone of the territorial conflicts and environmental character evident in our society”. D. Joan Nogué i Font, director del Consorci de l’Observatori del Paisatge
The main objective of the 2nd INTERNATIONAL LALI FORUM in Guayaquil, Equator illustrates the progress of the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI), specifically in each one of the six clusters _ Legal, Universities, Best Practices, Civil Society, Landscapes Network, and communications_ its advancement, strategies and goals. Also we will advance on each of the 12 Landscape charters in the region. In addition at the forum we will discuss the progress along the AGREEMENT with the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, IFLA and LALI. This memorandum represents a great achievement for Latin-American region to have the support and assistance of an organization, which is a benchmark in the global landscape. We will advance the collaborative program composed by concrete actions within agendas and the methodological proposals of each; the Observatory and the LALI. Through the central theme; THE LANDSCAPE AS A CATALYST, we aim to advance in the commitments to UNESCO "Hangzhou Declaration" declared last May, in the definition of actions to integrate culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development. We are placing the landscape as the territorial dimension of culture. Within this concept the local landscape is an engine for development and a means to increase peace and reconciliation, the level of self-esteem, identity and quality of life of the territory, therefore, in our agenda LALI we are collaborating to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), reporting and responding to the actions of the Hangzhou Declaration. This forum is part of the parallel events of the IFLA / SAPE Americas Regional Conference 2013, through the theme “Local Landscape Development and Sustainable Cities", and we have the support of academia through the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Guayaquil Headquarters, where the event will take place
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