The 2022 NZILA Firth Conference will be taking place at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland, 11-13 October, book the dates in your diary now and look out for the earlybird registration which will open in January.

As NZILA celebrates its 50th birthday in 2022, the NZILA Firth Conference theme “Ka mua, Ka muri (walking backwards into the future)” guides us to turn our heads to the past to help inform the future of landscape architecture in Aotearoa. The programme will reflect on how the profession has evolved over the past 50 years, while also delving into the future challenges and opportunities ahead. You can read more about the theme and our four subthemes here.

Further detail about the programme and speakers will be announced in January, however we are delighted that we will be hearing from many leaders in their field including:

• Dame Anne Salmond, anthropologist and environmentalist, University of Auckland;
• Prof Richard Weller, Co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania;
• Judge David Kirkpatrick, Head of the New Zealand Environment Court;
• Kotchakorn Voraakhom, founder of Landprocess, Porous City Network, and Kounkuey Design Initiative, Thailand.