Exploring Tartu Emajõgi and its watercourses:

IMLA students win the first prize of the LE:NOTRE Student Competition 2024

Photo of a paved square in the city of Tartu, surrounded by buildings. In the foreground a sculpture of red letters: #HARTU2024. Two students are sitting in front of the sculpture. One student is sitting on the letter U and has her arms outstretched. Another student is standing behind the sculpture between the letters R and T.

Exploring Tartu Emajõgi and its watercourses - LE:NOTRE Student Competition 2024 (Photo © Caroline de Vries)

Photo of the participants at the award ceremony. People stand in a row on a meadow. Trees and bushes in the background.

Participants at the award ceremony LE:NOTRE Student Competition 2024 (Photo © Arati Uttur)

Photo of the award ceremony participants. People stand on a podium in a row. One person in the centre holds a microphone. In the background a slope with trees and bushes.

Participants at the award ceremony LE:NOTRE Student Competition 2024 (Photo © Arati Uttur)

Photo of a slope with a meadow. 4 students are sitting on tree stumps with wine glasses in their hands.

From left to right: Mahan Esmaeili Zavieh, Ernesto Velasquez Gonzalez, Caroline de Vries, Malavika Mohan Das (Photo © Caroline de Vries)

This year’s LE:NOTRE Institute student competition with the title 'Exploring Tartu Emajõgi and its watercourses' asked for new and future-oriented planning and design proposals for the city of Tartu, Estonia. It was part of the 13th LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum hosted by the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu in summer 2024.

Two student teams of the International Master of Landscape Architecture (IMLA) programme were very successful in this international competition:

The team Caroline de Vries, Malavika Mohan Das, Mahan Esmaeili Zavieh and Ernesto Velasquez Gonzalez won the first price with their contribution 'Weaving with Water'.

Additionally, another IMLA team (Ruba Khaled Al-Hamzi, Asfia Islam, Shamim Rokhsari, Diana Salazar) with the contribution ' Symbiotic Tartu' received an honourable mention.

Congratulations to both teams!

A detailed presentation of all price winning teams and finalists of the competition can be found here (PDF-File 22 MB).

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