Granted Call For Forums 2025

Contact: Lina Berglund-Snodgrass, Movium

The idea of ​​the Forum for the Digitalization of Urban Landscapes is to create an arena for inspiration and dialogue between academia and practice where the conditions for digitalization and its consequences for the planning, design and management of urban landscapes can be discussed.

Contact: Amanda Gabriel, IMS/Urban Futures

The Forum for Children and Landscape brings together researchers and other stakeholders to make SLU Landscape a hub for research and education on environments designed for children and young people. The aim is to meet the needs for knowledge and guidance on how to improve the environments where children and young people grow up.

- The Forum for Children and Landscape connects people who work with children's and young people's environments. By mapping and showcasing research, education and collaboration at SLU Landscape, the forum strengthens the exchange of knowledge and creates new opportunities for influence. Through thematic resources, workshops and networking, expertise is brought together to shape healthier and more inclusive environments for young people. It is both about developing our own work and about making a lasting difference in children's everyday lives and the world they will inherit, says Amanda Gabriel.

Contact: Sued Ferreira da Silva, SOL-LA

PhD Forum is a forum to address the complexity of doctoral education and express the interdisciplinary richness of SLU's landscape research. The forum aims to bridge the geographical, institutional and epistemic distances that fragment campuses, faculties and departments, and to break the otherwise isolated work of a doctoral student.

Contact: Victoria Sjöstedt, LAPF

The forum serves as a long-term capacity-building initiative to strengthen reflective practice and design research at SLU and brings together teachers, students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in urban landscapes and their design.

Contact: Jitka Svensson, LAPF

The focus of this forum is on applied landscape architecture, for example discussions on plant materials for landscape architecture, hardened materials, plant beds, drainage, project planning, construction, educational progression, materiality, etc.

- Finally, we have the opportunity to make visible a collaboration that is constantly ongoing but has been hidden within the everyday networks we have on both the respective campuses and to some extent between campuses. The forum enables the development of collaborations and clarification of the challenges we deal with in our daily work. It is about both staying updated on current landscape architecture projects but also technology, research and pedagogy. The focus is on professional practice, which largely rests on experience-based knowledge but which is dependent on constant updating on both current research and on creative, innovative solutions to current problems.

This year, the theme of the forum is LIGHT OUTDOORS, in the broadest sense. Light is the basis for visual perception of form and it is complicated to both analyze and control as it is constantly changing, and also context-dependent. At night, paradoxically, it is the lack of darkness that is often the reason why environments are incorrectly lit. In the forum, we will increase our general knowledge about light with the help of each other's expertise but also through study visits to, among others, Konstfack, KTH and through site visits.

Contact: Christine Haaland, LAPF

The purpose of this forum is to strengthen the competence of researchers in the field and thereby the quality of education and research. A forum on biodiversity - which is a topic that society urgently needs to address - should make it easier for the organization to act and thus prepare for new initiatives. - The forum aims to enable an exchange on teaching and research-related issues in the field of biodiversity. It is also seen as an opportunity for networking beyond established course groups and specific research applications. It will be exciting to meet colleagues and discuss our different approaches and perspectives, says Christine Haaland.