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SLU Urban Futures

SLU Urban Futures is a strategic platform that develops and strengthens transdisciplinary research, education and collaboration in sustainable urban development.

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Research 'scapes for sustainable cities and communities

SLU has broad competence linked to the many facets of sustainable urban development. Blue-Green infrastructure, biodiversity, design of urban landscapes and sustainable urban food systems are just a few examples. By connecting disciplines, faculties and sectors, the platform stimulates the new research, new methods and new collaborations needed to create sustainable future urban landscapes. Urban Futures uses the term research 'scape to highlight and support innovative and compound modes of knowledge production as well as inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration at SLU.

My Röbäcksdalen: Our Landscape!

SLU Urban Futures is hosting a student design competition in the spring and summer of 2024. Students in the field of Landscape Architecture and sustainable urban development will be given the chance to shape a unique urban setting of Umeå’s future. The competition is published on CANVAS.

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Food & Cities

Food & Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures and explores the systemic relations of food systems and urban development and how these relationships influence the transformation towards sustainable societies. 

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Urban Forests

Urban trees and forests contribute to making cities socio-economically and environmentally more sustainable. This is a transdisciplinary field where the two platforms SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests meet. Together they are organising a webinar series on urban forests.

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Urban Health – Diverse perspectives on health in urban settings

How can we understand the term Urban Healthscapes? SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future One Health teamed up in an Urban Health webinar in January 2024, aiming to bring together diverse perspectives on health in urban settings. Watch the recording of the webinar!

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Published: 23 April 2024 - Page editor: urbanfutures@slu.se
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