Plenary Lecture
"Urban Horticulture: future scenarios"

Richard Bisgrove
(School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading – UK)

Plenary Lecture
"Dutch mountains: integration of architecture and landscape"

Ellen van der Wal
(Mecanoo Architecten b.v., Delft – The Netherlands)

Session 1:
Food and flowers
production in/for the cities

- Keynote lecture -

"Places for people, places
for plants: evolving
thoughts on continuous
productive urban landscapes”

Andre Viljoen
(Centre for Research &
Development, Faculty of
Arts & Architecture,
University of Brighton – UK)

Session 4:
Green buildings

- Keynote lecture -

"People and Nature:
integrating aesthetics
and ecology on accessible
green roofs"

Nigel Dunnett
(Dept. Landscape,
University of Sheffield - UK)

Session 7:
Urban horticulture
meets architecture

- Keynote lecture -

"The landscape project
between rediscovery
and invention"

Paolo L. Bürgi
(Landscape Architecture,
University of Pennsylvania,
USA, and IUAV, Istituto
Universitario di Architettura
of Venice, Italy)

Session 1:
Food and flowers production
in/for the cities

- Keynote lecture -

"Cities farming for the future:
multi stakeholder policy
formulation and action
planning on urban agriculture
in developing countries"

Henk de Zeeuw
(RUAF, Resource Centres on
Urban Agriculture and Food
Security – ETC, Urban Agriculture,
Leusden - The Netherlands)

Session 4:
Green buildings

- Keynote lecture -

"What are the benefits of
plants indoors and why
do we respond positively
to them?"

Virginia I. Lohr
(Dept. Horticulture and
Landscape Architecture,
Washington State
University - USA)

Session 2:
Urban landscape horticulture

- Keynote lecture -

"Applying an ecological
perspective; the future of
urban horticulture?”

James Hitchmough
(Dept. Landscape,
University of Sheffield – UK)

Session 5:
Social and psychological role
of horticulture in the
urban environment

- Keynote lecture -

"Biofeedback evidence of social
and psychological health
benefits provided by plants and
flowers in urban environments"

Richard H. Mattson
(Dept. Horticulture, Forestry,
and Recreation Resources,
Kansas State University – USA)

Session 3:
Ecophysiology and vegetation
management in urban environment

- Keynote lecture -

"Potential effects of global change
to urban vegetation: vulnerability
and adaptations"

Robert Savé
(IRTA, Institute of Research and
Technology for
Agriculture, Barcelona – Spain)

Session 6:
Plants in historical garden

- Keynote lecture -

"The gardens of
ancient Pompeii"

Annamaria Ciarallo
(Applied Research Laboratory
of Pompei - Italy)