Landscape Design - An Encounter Between Two Cultures

On August 21st 2010 Devnet Pavilion and Shanghai Landscape Design Committee of Garden Green Industry Association organized a Forum titled "An Encounter Between Two Cultures". The event was hosted at the Longtong Lucky Plaza Hotel and saw the participation of Mr. Roberto Mulieri, President of Argentinean Landscape Network (Red Argentina del Paisaje), Mr. Guo Qiang, President of Shanghai Landscape Design Committee, along with many personalities from different sectors of Landscape Design, including Universities, Associations and Research Institutes.

The aim of the Forum was to establish a dialogue between landscape designers from different backgrounds: China and the Rio Platense region of Latin America (an area of Argentina and Uruguay). The event was divided into two parts, the first seeing a presentation by Mr. Mulieri of 6 of his personal works conducted in Latin America. While the second part saw expositions by the Chinese counterparts with relevant personalities exhibiting their works.

After both sessions of presentations a large amount of time was dedicated to interaction between landscape designers in order to exchange information, ideas, points of views, and so that there could be a wide dialogues of the similarities and differences of the way Landscape Design is conducted in the two regions.