2025 PLEČNIK MEDAL for the Enrichment of Spatial Culture
Platform Landezine
Zaš Brezar
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Platform Landezine
Category: Enrichment of Spatial Culture
Author: Zaš Brezar
Collaborators: Rok Grča, Urška Škerl, Pia Kante
Year of founding: 2009
Editorial board: Landezine Media
PLEČNIK MEDAL in the category of the enrichment of spatial culture
Landezine is a platform which has developed from a virtual spot for publishing reference landscape and architectural projects into an international web hub as well as - by way of organising events - into a concrete space of following, discovering, and researching the tendencies in open-space regulation. Landezine is characterised by constant growth, quick response time, and a sensibility and openness for confronting the often uncomfortable questions of the present and the future. Landezine represents a key resource for researching the content related to landscape architecture as well as further topics; in this role, it comfortably surpasses the national scale as it measures both its content and its users in units of a globally significant reach.
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Platform Landezine - Jury's report
Landezine is a platform which has developed from a virtual spot for publishing reference landscape and architectural projects into an international web hub as well as - by way of organising events - into a concrete space of following, discovering, and researching the tendencies in open-space regulation. Landezine is characterised by constant growth, quick response time, and a sensibility and openness for confronting the often uncomfortable questions of the present and the future. Landezine represents a key resource for researching the content related to landscape architecture as well as further topics; in this role, it comfortably surpasses the national scale as it measures both its content and its users in units of a globally significant reach.
Keen global response placed the platform in the centre of the world's landscape architectural scene soon after its founding. There, it also found itself at the juncture of the various intertwined professions dealing with the open space. Platform Landezine has thereby manifested the reach characterising open-space architecture, one extending far into the depths of various questions pertaining to society and natural sciences: environment and ecology, social contexts, and politics. With its events, which have crucially defined the platform from as early as 2016, it also engages the general public, raises awareness on the significance and impact of open-space planning, and makes clear that landscape architecture goes beyond just trees and other vegetation, but is rather the result of complex reflection and an amalgamation of diverse spatial elements which shape both our environment and ourselves. By peeling back the layers of the considerations which arise in the designing of the architecture of open space, it points to the inevitability of the interdisciplinary effort on the part of the various professions in solving complex contemporary spatial and societal questions relating to urbanisation and the role of nature in society.
Landezine leverages its diverse projects to engage both the young and the old in addition to internationally established representatives of various expert communities as well as the general public. It does not stop at serially showcasing examples of best practice: it researches and expounds, critically examines and evaluates them by means of events, publishing of articles, essays and interviews, competitions, as well as presentations of collectives, individuals, and products.
All told, Platform Landezine has assumed the role of the principal moderator on the global landscape-architectural scene. Its contribution has been pivotal in recognising global and critically meaningful questions dealing with our common future, which are being raised in the intertwining of the various professions.
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