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Keynote speaker from SLU at ECLAS

Published: 11 September 2019

Burcu Yigit Turan, associate senior lecturer in the subject area of “planning in cultural environments” at SLU is invited as keynote speaker at the ECLAS Conference 2019.

Burcu Yigit Turan will talk about Questions for landscape architecture education in an age of increasing inequalities and polarisation. 

Today, we hear voices in landscape architecture calling for social equity, democracy and justice. Policy texts emphasize social justice and sustainability as the goal for envisions for future. Projects represent themselves with concepts such as social justice, sustainability, participation, inclusion and democracy. We want to see a just, socially and environmentally sustainable world. How much do we do? What is the gap between intention and action? What are the elements of this gap?

Are we able to see the borders that create and exacerbate inequalities? Are we able to help others to see them? Are we able to stand against them for justice? Can we imagine and create landscapes that can bring down walls? What kind of education in landscape architecture do we need to help our students gain those abilities? What are the challenges?

Read more in the ECLAS programme

Facts:

The ECLAS Conference 2019 will take place in Ås, Norway in September 16-17. Read more

Burcu Yigit Turan is associate senior lecturer in the subject area of “planning in cultural environments” at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Division of Landscape architecture. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2010 from Vienna University of Technology, defending her dissertation titled ‘Complexity of Meanings in Urban Landscapes: Between the Imagined and the Real’. Burcu practiced, studied and taught landscape architecture and urban planning and design in different geographies such as Turkey, the Netherlands, Austria, the United States and Sweden. Her current work has revolved around the issues of social justice, migration, urbanisation, and ethics and politics in landscape architecture.


Contact

Bruno Santesson
Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Rural Development; Division of Landscape Architecture

Telephone: +46 18 672519, +46 702 501165
E-mail: bruno.santesson@slu.se