Unlimited Landscape

Students from different design disciplines (architecture, landscape, urban planning, interior design) will take the stage to speak about their own student work. Maalstroom, Archipel’s young thinktank, Jong Blikveld and Blikveld are joining forces to put the future of landscape architecture on the agenda. An open call last spring led to a selection of student work that shows the breadth and depth of the field while emphasising certain attitudes and competences specific to the various disciplines.

Students are given the chance to show their work outside the walls of their respective institutions, across disciplines. Still unbounded by a real practice, their ideas, ideals and approaches offer a refreshing look on the importance of landscape architecture.

• Ijeoma Ruben – Stitching Streams
• Thomas De Loof – Somewhere In Between
• Robin Vandenbussche – Oeverlanden
• A. Verbert, A. Pouw, L. Mylle, B. Luts, S. Cerpentier, S. Verlinden en L. Selis – De Blauwe Draad
• Frauke Soetewey – Afstammelingen van de polder

The student work is presented in the framework of a broader effort to reflect on the future of landscape architecture; read the manifesto for a master’s degree in landscape architecture initiated by Blikveld – a masters degree that does not yet exist in Flanders. With this in mind, the students’ presentations will be followed by a debate on the future and scope of the discipline of landscape architecture in Flanders. Based on a number of themes emerging in the student work, the challenges and specific design attitudes and educational needs for landscape architecture are explored.

This panel is co-curated by students Kristel Permeti, Gaël Biache, Pippa De Kinder, Ijeoma Ruben and Hanne Didden. A number of relevant voices in the debate on landscape architecture are invited to the table:

• Ursula Wieser Benedetti, curator landschap, tuinen en stedelijke ecosystemen voor het Civa,
• Elise Candry, Lokus Landscape, landschapsarchitect met eigen praktijk,
• Jo Boonen, onderzoeker aan de HoGent rond sociale duurzaamheid in de landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur.

The debate will be moderated by Jolein Bergers from Blikveld. You are very welcome to join in the discussion and to dream of possible and necessary steps in the future of landscape education in Flanders. After the debate the exhibition of all student work (30+ projects) collected through the open call can be visited.

The works selected for presentation, in short:

Stitching Streams (2025)
Ijeoma Ruben – KU Leuven, 2nd master architecture

Somewhere In Between (2025)
Thomas De Loof – The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2nd master landschape architecture

Oeverlanden (2024)
Robin Vandenbussche – Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, 2nd master interior architecture

De Blauwe Draad (2025)
Annelien Verbert, Achelle Pouw, Laura Mylle, Britte Luts, Sybe Cerpentier, Stan Verlinden en Lore Selis – Universiteit Antwerpen, master of urbanism

Afstammelingen van de polders (2025)
Frauke Soetewey – KU Leuven, 2nd master architecture