IFLA 2022 International Student Charrette will provide a three-day workshop in Gwangju August 29-31, 2022 to the participants. Undergraduate and postgraduate students majoring in Landscape Architecture (or other relevant majors) may participate in the Student Charrette.

It will provide opportunities for students from diverse cultural backgrounds to gather, communicate and exchange thoughts, and have fun. Student Charrette will be divided into teams, and experts from academia and industry help them to come up with creative and fresh ideas.

The theme of IFLA 2022 Student Charrette is “Re: Public, Gwangju.” Gwangju is a city that takes an important role in the modern history of Korea. The Gwangju Uprising took place on May 18, 1980 and resulted in many casualties, and the scars of that time still remain in many parts of Korean society. But, it also became a catalyst for Korea to evolve politically that made itself escape from its long-standing dictatorship.

Political democratization is founded on public justice, and this is the only way a society can become truly democratic. An environment in which people can communicate and have diversity in opinion can only be obtained through political democratization, and this is the only way social justice can be achieved and move on to discussing environmental justice. Although each country's political situation is different, it is important to look back on the public justice of each country, to understand each other, and to share the common point of view in that we must overcome the global crisis by working together.

Student Charrette aims to reflect on the meaning of democratization and public justice and to project relevant various values--equality, equity, justice--on various spaces of the 5.18 Memorial Park.

This year’s Student Charrette was planned by the IFLA 2022 organizing committee and organized by the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture and the Korean Society of Landscape Architecture.