At the IFLA's 60th World Congress organized by the UCTEA Chamber of Turkish Landscape Architects, Jake Pytleski and Miranda Peck - two landscape architecture students from South Dakota State University (SDSU) School of Design - competed in the inaugural Global Studio Program (GSP), with Pytelski's team taking third place.

 

The IFLA competition marked the first of four charettes in The Global Studio program, a new initiative where universities from across the globe are hand-picked to send two students and a professor to participate. Students are then placed on teams of five with peers and professors from other institutions around the world to tackle a design whose site is in the city of the competition. SDSU was one of five U.S. institutions invited to the program, and Pytelski's team ended up winning third place.

After the IFLA World Congress in September, the second stage of the GSP was held in early October at the Global Landscape Conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The third was held in late October at the Bienal Latinoamericana de Paisaje in Mexicali, Mexico, and the final charette will take place at the Landscape Sustainability Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.