PETŐFI LITERARY MUSEUM

Garden Heritage and Communication Conference and Workshop

April 20-21-22, 2023

Draft programme*

Latest update: April 13, 2023
* The organisers reserve the right to change the programme

Programmes for professionals, subject to registration (day ticket is required)


April 20 Thursday

8.00-9.00REGISTRATION
9.00-9.30    PRESENTATION  

Regő Lánszki (Secretary of State, Ministry of Construction and Transport)

Ágnes Herczeg (President, Hungarian Garden Heritage Foundation)

Szilárd Demeter (Director General, Petőfi Literary Museum)
9.30-10.30PRESENTATIONS (Moderator: Albert Fekete)  

Zsanett Oláh (Managing Director, National Heritage Protection and Development Non-profit Ltd.)
Our green heritage: past, present and future of mansion gardens

Catherine Leonard (Secretary-general, International National Trusts Organisation)

Communication in the garden with examples from the INTO network
10.30-11.00COFFEE BREAK  
11.00-13.30 PRESENTATIONS  

Siân Thomas (Communications Officer, National Trust)
Loofahs, landscapes and likes: Sharing 500 years of National Trust gardens

Gábor Hajdú (Communications Advisor, Hungarian Garden Heritage Foundation)
Persuading and influencing – the cornerstones and pitfalls in heritage garden communication

Ákos Veisz (Managing Partner, BDO Hungary ESG Advisory)
From liability to opportunity

Ferenc Halász (Fireflymaster)
The role of “chance” in the ecotourism programme of gardens
13.30-14.30LUNCH BREAK  
14:30-16.30WORKSHOP

Attila Glázer (the MultiArtist)
Photographing historical gardens through the eye of a MULTIARTIST
16.30-17.00COFFEE BREAK  
18.00-19:30PUBLIC PRESENTATION – open to the public with a special ticket

Nigel Dunnett (Plant Designer, Professor of Planting Design, Urban Horticulture and Vegetation Technology, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield)
Future Nature: Transformational Gardens

Roundtable discussion – Reflections of landscape architects:
Nigel Dunnett, Albert Fekete, Attila Vincze


April 21 Friday

8.00-9.00REGISTRATION  
9.00-10.30  PRESENTATIONS (Moderator: Ágnes Herczeg)

Albert Fekete (Director, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences)
Education, Cooperation, Communication

Gillian Mawrey (Historic Gardens Foundation, Chairman)
Is there still a place for hard copy magazines in today’s digital world?

László Orlóci (Director, ELTE Botanic Garden)
Botanic gardens in changing times The transformation of the ELTE Botanic Garden    
10.30-11.00COFFEE BREAK  
11:00-13.00 PRESENTATIONS

Réka Folly (Owner, Folly Arboretum and Winery)
Folly – behind the scenes

Angelica Karolyi (Joseph Karolyi Foundation, director of the cultural programmes)

From the jungle to a park

Paweł Gutt (The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Protocol & Events Department)
The royal castle in Warsaw – the symbolism of place and its garden events as a particular segment of communication

João Sousa Rego (Managing Director for Built Heritage, Parques de Sintra, Vice President at Historic Gardens Association)
Pena Park in a UNESCO Landscape
13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK  
14.00-15.30 WORKSHOP  
15.30-16.00COFFEE BREAK  
16.00-18.00GARDEN WALK  
Guided walk in the Károlyi Garden