From October 28 to 30, 2026, the 62nd IFLA World Congress and the IFLA Asia-Pacific Regional Congress were held in Hong Kong, China. Under the theme Liminal Landscapes: Shifting Boundaries of Watersheds and Coastlines, the congress brought together experts, scholars, designers, and young students from the global landscape architecture field to discuss landscape resilience and sustainable development in the context of climate change.

During the congress, the inaugural IFLA Global Landscape Architecture Awards (GLA Awards) were announced. Faculty design practices and student works from the Department of Landscape Architecture, Tongji University, received four honors in total, including two first-place category awards and two second-place category awards, demonstrating the Department's comprehensive achievements in professional practice, innovative research, and talent cultivation.