Be part of the transition towards brighter, better urban landscapes

Shin Koseki was invited to speak at the Jardins de Métis for the inauguration of the International Garden Festival, which took place from June 21 to 23. Koseki gave a lecture on the “Right to the River”, discussing the social, environmental, and economic issues facing the world’s major rivers, including the St. Lawrence, the Mekong, and the Mississippi. This invitation took place as part of the festivities for the 25th anniversary of the festival, and gathered, in addition to the winners of the international garden competition, a delegation from the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, landscape architects and architects, as well as people from indigenous communities.

The 14th edition of the UNESCO studio will take place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from May 13 to 24, 2024.

Congratulations to Rashid Mushkani, doctoral student at the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape, for his two scholarships.

Shin Koseki receives funding for an international and intersectorial collaboration on the digital and ecological transition. With the support of the G3 program, the holder of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape will develop a series of international workshops and summer schools on this pressing topic.

A new working report on digital governance in cities derived from the Chair’s series of online seminar Insights Into.

UdeM international funds three of the Chair’s projects that push the boundaries of international research, teaching and cooperation.

The Mila Board of Directors have appointed Shin Koseki as Affiliate Member for 2023-2026. This appointment consolidates the numerous collaborations between the UNESCO Chair and the world-renowned non-profit organization on the development of responsible artificial intelligence systems (AIS) for and by cities.

Rashid Mushkani, doctoral student at the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape, presented his research at the “Benchmarking Spatial Justice in Policymaking, Planning and Design” Symposium.

The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape is organizing a roundtable conference on December 6th from 12:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. with Jérôme Chenal, director of the “Excellence en Afrique” Center, a research unit in regional and urban planning at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL); and Prof. Shin Koseki, Director of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape.

The collaboration between the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape and the Hanoi Architectural University has led to the signing of an agreement between the prestigious university in Vietnam and the Faculty of Environmental design of the University of Montreal.

For nine days, master’s students at the Faculty of Planning at the University of Montreal visited the Great Lakes region to discover the riverine landscapes of northern Ontario. This trip falls under the Fluvialities research project carried out at the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape, and the Urban Design studio, taught at the master’s level by Shin Koseki, holder of the UNESCO Chair and professor at the School urban planning and landscape architecture.

The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape and L’ENSEMBLE receive noteworthy funding from the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Énergie du Québec (MEIE).

On Tuesday October 10th, the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape celebrated the unveiling of the Nplex web platform, an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape at the University of Montreal.

After twenty years of collaboration, UNESCO and the University of Montreal are renewing the mandate of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape led by Shin Koseki.

The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape is organizing a series of multidisciplinary discussions on the challenges of emerging technologies in cities, entitled INSIGHTS INTO. Through the experiences and points of view of researchers, professionals and citizens, INSIGHTS INTO will address the issues of the city in the era of emerging technologies in a transversal and holistic way.