VESCOA Hosts IFLA Global Students Program, Bringing Together Architectural Institutes Across Borders
Mumbai, 11thNovember 2025: Vivekanand Education Society’s College of Architecture (VESCOA), one of India’s leading architecture institutes, successfully hosted the Global Students Program (GSP), an allied event of India’s largest International Conference on Landscape Architecture, IFLA–APR Mumbai 2025 (International Federation of Landscape Architects Asia Pacific Regional Congress).
The IFLA–APR Regional Congress, organised by the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA), is scheduled for 14–15 November 2025 at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, under the theme “Growth Paradox: Reimagining Landscapes. ”The event will conveneover 30+ across the globe architectural and landscape institutes along with global leaders in landscape architecture, urban planning, ecology, design, and policy to explore how growth can be redefined to build resilient, sustainable, and inclusive cities of the future. The Congress will bring together diverse voices through talks, debates, panel discussions, and exhibitions, offering something meaningful for everyone.
As part of this initiative, the five-day Global Students Program was held at the VESCOA campus in Mumbai. It was inaugurated in the presence of Ms. Tejashree Joshi, Head of Environmental Sustainability, Godrej Enterprises Group, and Mr. Sameer Unhale, Joint Commissioner, Directorate of Municipal Administration, Government of Maharashtra. Supported by the Soonabai Pirojsha Godrej Foundation, the program brought together students pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture from countries like India, Turkey, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, Palestine, Chile, USA to participate in the Charrette series.
Titled “Reimagining Urban Landscapes: Negotiating Mumbai’s Paradoxes,” the Charrette encouraged participants to identify challenges and co-create design solutions through an intensive workshop process. The initiative fostered collaboration, innovation, and debate among students, advancing dialogue on the intersection of landscape, design, and sustainability while imparting a global perspective to landscape architecture education.
Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Prof. Anand Achari, Principal, VESCOA, said, “Hosting the IFLA GSP 2025 positioned VESCOA as a global platform for dialogue on the evolving challenges of Mumbai’s urban landscapes. The exchange of ideas among international students and experts reinforced our commitment to shaping resilient cities and promoting design that balances ecology with growth.”
The IFLA–APR initiative is supported by the Brihan mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as its Green Supporter, along with Meet in India, Incredible India, the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)–India, Centre for Development of Stones (CDOS), and CREDAI–MCHI.
About VESCOA
Vivekanand Education Society or as popularly known as, VES, had humble beginnings in the year1962. As per the vision of social worker and founder, Shri Hashu Advani, VES runs a total of 26 institutions in the city of Mumbai, where quality education is imparted to all.
VES has grown into a massive ecosystem for education which include Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PhD courses in domain such as Architecture, Technology, Business Management, Polytechnic, Pharmacy, Law, to name a few. Owing to its rich culture of one-point focus on learning, VES is today, a vibrant community of over 23,000 students enrolling every year and hundreds of faculties, staff and alumni. The VES College of Architecture is proud to be a part of the large VES family. The focused of VESCOA is towards developing socio-cultural, environmental, technological, aesthetic; philosophical values in Architectural education. Creating a favourable environment for learning, innovation, integration & leadership has been the key emphasis of the institute.
At VESCOA, students are encouraged to participate actively in live projects through the Research Cell. VESCOA is focusing on collaborative working with the students, teachers, and professionals towards key areas like learning, realization, discovering, engaging, integration and becoming leaders in the society. The college is working towards empowering the students in engaging with the society along with the nature and the built environment around them. Here, Students are engaged towards enriching their knowledge keeping values of traditional system and working towards experimentation and innovation.
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