Vera works at the intersection of landscape theory, critical and cultural geography, political philosophy, history of ideas, and aesthetics. She has been interested in different kinds of landscapes, peri-urban, post-industrial, and wild, both urban and non-urban – and most importantly in the ideas of and discourses surrounding these landscapes. In her research and teaching work, she is becoming more and more interested in the methodology and epistemology of landscape design, and in thinking about the political agency of landscape design.
Vera is teaching in the landscape programmes at SLU (Ultuna) on all levels of the higher education cycle. She is leading and teaching in the Bachelor thesis course in the Landscape Architecture (EX0861) and the Landscape Engineering (EX1004) programmes. She is also responsible for the course Landscape architecture and text (LK0420). In addition, she is supervising and examining Master theses in the Landscape Architecture and Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Development programmes.
Currently, I'm the main supervisor of two PhD students:
Past co-supervision:
Vera has also supervised numerous bachelor and master theses within landscape architecture and related programmes/fields.
Please feel free (and warmly encouraged!) to get in touch with Vera if you're interested in writing a thesis that relates to her research interests.
Peer-reviewed articles in international academic journals (selection)
De Block, Greet & Vicenzotti, Vera. 2018. The effects of affect. A plea for distance between the human and non-human. Journal of Landscape Architecture 13(2): 46–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2018.1553394
Vicenzotti, Vera. 2017. The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism. Landscape Journal 36(1): 75–86. https://lj.uwpress.org/content/36/1/75
Etteger, Rudi van; Thompson, Ian H. & Vicenzotti, Vera. 2016. Aesthetic creation theory and landscape architecture. Journal of Landscape Architecture 11(1): 80-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2016.1144688
Kirchhoff, Thomas & Vicenzotti, Vera. 2014. A Historical and Systematic Survey of European Perceptions of Wilderness. Environmental Values (23)4: 443–464. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327114X13947900181590
Kirchhoff, Thomas; Trepl, Ludwig & Vicenzotti, Vera. 2013: What is Landscape Ecology? A Distinction, Analysis, and Evaluation of Seven Concepts. Landscape Research (38)1: 33–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2011.640751
Journal articles not reviewed by referees (selection)
Vicenzotti, Vera & Waterton, Emma. 2021. Practicing care in a global pandemic, Landscape Research, 46(1), 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.1873485
De Block, Greet; Vicenzotti, Vera; Diedrich, Lisa & Notteboom, Bruno. 2019. For whom? Exploring landscape design as a political project. Journal of Landscape Architecture 14(3): 4–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2019.1705568
Books
Kirchhoff, Thomas; Vicenzotti, Vera & Voigt, Annette (Eds.). 2012. Sehnsucht nach Natur. Über den Drang nach draußen in der heutigen Freizeitkultur. [Longing for nature. On the urge for the outdoors in our current leisure culture.] Bielefeld: transcript.
[For more information on the publisher's page, please follow this link: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-1866-2/sehnsucht-nach-natur/]
Vicenzotti, Vera. 2011. Der "Zwischenstadt"-Diskurs. Eine Analyse zwischen Wildnis, Kulturlandschaft und Stadt. [The "Zwischenstadt" discourse. An analysis between wilderness, cultural landscape and city]. Bielefeld: transcript.
[For more information on the publisher's page, please follow this link: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-1829-7/der-zwischenstadt-diskurs/]
Book chapters (selection)
Vicenzotti, Vera. 2023. Landscape Architecture and the Scientific Method: IMRaD and Alternative Ways of Writing and Thinking. In: Brenda J Brown (ed.): Landscape Fascinations and Provocations: Ongoing conversations with Robert B. Riley. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press
Kirchhoff, Thomas & Vicenzotti, Vera. 2020. Von der Sehnsucht nach Wildnis [On the longing for wild nature]. In: Kirchhoff, Thomas; Karafyllis, Nicole C.; Evers, Dirk; Falkenburg, Brigitte; Gerhard, Myriam; Hartung, Gerald; Hübner, Jürgen; Köchy, Kristian; Krohs, Ulrich; Potthast, Thomas; Schäfer, Otto; Schiemann, Gregor; Schlette, Magnus; Schulz, Reinhard; Vogelsang, Frank (Hg.): Naturphilosophie. Ein Lehr- und Studienbuch. 2nd edition. Tübingen: UTB/Mohr Siebeck, 313-322.
Vicenzotti, Vera. 2017. Thomas Sieverts: Zwischenstadt. In: Frank Eckardt (Ed.): Schlüsselwerke der Stadtforschung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: 127-143.
Professional and popular scientific publications (selection)
De Block, Greet & Vicenzotti, Vera (2018). The nature of post-human landscape design. In: Diedrich, L., Friesen, M., Hendriks, M., Lindgren, C. & Moll, C. (Eds.) Landscape Architecture Europe #5: care/create/act. Wageningen: Blauwdruk: 149-155.
Qviström, Mattias & Vicenzotti, Vera. 2016. Urban sprawl på skånska? Om planeringsdebattens språkbruk och begreppens dolda landskap. LTV-fakultetens faktablad 2016:14.
[Full text can be downloaded under this link: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13874/7/qvistrom_et_al_161130.pdf]
Project report
Jansson, Märit; Vicenzotti, Vera & Diedrich, Lisa. 2019. Landscape design based on research. A methodological guide to design-oriented projects for students and teachers in landscape architecture. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science, Report 2019:10. Alnarp.
[For more information and full text, please follow this link: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/16389/]
A (more) complete list of publications can be found here:
https://veravicenzotti.eu/publications.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vera-Vicenzotti/publications