Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management

LAPF is Sweden’s leading academic institution for education and research in the field of landscape architecture and a part of SLU Landscape.

  • Conducting research in landscape architecture
  • Teaches on several undergraduate and master programmes

About the department

The Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (LAPF) at SLU Alnarp is an internationally leading academic environment for education, research, collaboration and environmental analysis on issues related to landscape change and development.
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News & Events

News

  • 2025-09-23

    From child-friendly places to child-friendly cities

    Research shows that children's physical, psychological, and mental health is affected by the availability and quality of outdoor environments. In Malmö, several projects are underway to create child-friendly street environments and neighborhoods – in collaboration with the children themselves.
  • 2025-08-27

    The children’s city – where play meets urban development and nature

    How do children see the city? At the Malmö Festival, SLU Urban Futures and Botildenborg invited visitors on a playful journey into the world of urban development. By planting, creating, and interacting with a map, the children left their mark on Malmö—both literally and symbolically.
  • 2025-06-27

    New alliances with sites

    The symposium Feminist ÉLAN – Designing Landscapes in the Anthropocene represents a week-long program at WIA – Women in Architecture Festival in Berlin. Nina Vogel got invited to present her project ‘From Basement to Kitchen - growing visions for the future of the Swedish Million Programme areas’.
  • 2025-06-24

    SLU highlights critical perspectives on environmental psychology at international conference

    From 15 to 18 June, SLU took part in the International Conference on Environmental Psychology (ICEP 2025). More than 600 participants explored one of the most pressing issues of our time: how people’s experience of place is shaped by climate change, urban development, health, and social change.
  • 2025-06-16

    When gardening became a science – new book depicts cultivation throughout history

    Now, Swedish Garden History 1500 to 1800 has been published, the final part in a three-volume work that covers Swedish garden culture from prehistoric times to the present.

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