Children’s right to outdoor play in urban planning
A breakfast webinar exploring how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is applied in urban planning. Hear the latest research on the gap between planning practice and regulations, and join a discussion on how children’s access to outdoor spaces and play environments can be safeguarded. (In Swedish).
Risk management in urban experiments
Urban experimentation has become an increasingly common way to explore new solutions to complex sustainability challenges. But experimentation means venturing into the unknown, even though municipalities and other public-sector organisations are expected to be predictable. How do organisations make this uncertainty manageable and enable action? (In Swedish).
Can Malmö’s waterfront make room for people and nature?
What if a quayside could do more than separate the city from the water? In Malmö’s Nyhamnen, a new research project is exploring how nature-based solutions can create waterfront environments that are more resilient, inclusive and biodiverse.
Urbanscapes
Read more about our researchers linked to the Forum for Children and Landscape
At SLU, we work to strengthen research, education, and collaboration on outdoor environments for children and young people, brought together under the Forum for Children and Landscapes. Here you can read interviews with some of our teachers and researchers. Interviews in Swedish.
Living labs
A living lab is a creative meeting space where diverse stakeholders come together to test and develop solutions for complex challenges. Here, new methods and processes have the opportunity to grow in real-world environments, while we observe their social and practical impacts.