World Landscape Architecture (WLA) recently organised an international student ideas competition to provide the opportunity for students to reimagine the spaces in between buildings and address the various issues of COVID-19 and to develop ideas that provide safe, inclusive, and equitable spaces for everyone.
The jury has reviewed the high-quality entries from various universities from across the world. The round 1 scoring was close with the following entries shortlisted (in no particular order):

Wang Kai, Yan Haojun, Mai Yihui, OuYang Wen – Beijing Forestry University, City University of Hong Kong

Madeline Leong, Agnes Chain – University of Sheffield

Xue Bai – Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Linfeng Huang, Shiyi Liu – The University of Adelaide / Wageningen University & Research

Xu Han, Zihan Zhu, Jiong Wang – University of Pennsylvania

Joanne (Zhenheng) Li, Tian Wei Li – Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Yifan Feng, Yeqing Shang, Jingyi Chen, Shuyi Guan – University of California – Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island School of Design

Jiajie Ye, Juqing Huang, Bihui Xiang – South China University of Technology

Huiyou Ding – University of Pennsylvania

Xi (Echo) Chen, Sufeng (Sophia) Xiao, Xuezhen (Esther) Xie, Siqi (Joyce) Zhu – Graduate School of Design – Harvard University, CALS – Cornell University
The winners of the ideas competition will be announced on the 15th September. Thank you to all the entrants and good luck to the shortlisted entries.