The Botildenborg Foundation in Malmö runs a farm and meeting place, combining urban gardening with social activities. Since the spring of 2024, SLU Urban Futures has been part of the project SOIL - a Social Innovation Living Lab, with the aim of increasing research and knowledge about the social innovations carried out at Botildenborg.
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!
The theme of Urban Health at SLU encompasses highly important and society relevant research topics. SLU Urban Futures's Alnarp Hub wants to initiate and strengthen SLU’s Urban Health expertise and develop its network.
In October 2022 the second conference of SLU Urban Futures’ series Getting Our Cities Right took place at SLU Campus Alnarp. The focus was on Living Laboratories as new formats for research, teaching, and societal interaction. Read the take-aways and presentation summaries here.
A unique collaboration between Akademiska hus, LAPF, SLU Think Tank Movium and SLU Urban Futures developed into a PhD project that started in 2022. After this first year of investigation, how does Dennis Andreasson view the future of Alnarp?
Campus development is becoming increasingly important in the knowledge society of the 21st century as campus spaces offer attractive environments not only for academic education and conventional research but also for interaction with society and transdisciplinary research.
Campus Alnarp has a long tradition of using the outdoors for testbeds, trial areas and landscape laboratories. In the autumn of 2022 a new doctoral project in Alnarp will explore the possibilities of using the landscapes of the university even further.
