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Dr Jala Makhzoumi receives IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award


Abi Palmer-Greenwood
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During a virtual ceremony on Wednesday 18 August, as part of the opening ceremony of IFLA’s World Congress 2020, IFLA President James Hayter announced Iraqi architect, landscape architect and academic Dr. Jala Makhzoumi as the 2021 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award laureate.

The annual Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest honour IFLA can bestow on a landscape architect. Inaugurated by IFLA in 2005, it celebrates a living landscape architect whose achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on society, the environment, and the profession of landscape architecture.

Find out more and watch the presentation here.

 

Huge congratulations to Dr. Jala Makhzoumi!

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This was very inspiring to listen to, particularly Dr Jala's focus on using the landscape approach for post-conflict recovery & healing, how this is more than just 'reconstruction' as you must look beyond the buildings. "Once you accept an expansive definition of landscape, then the potential for addressing ruptures - political, cultural, social - to address issues of marginalisation and displacement, is immense." 

Would love to hear others thoughts. 

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