SLU Landscape now invites researchers and teachers at different departments to apply for funding to organize and run forums that focus on current issues in the landscape field. These can range from design as a reflective practice, digitization, and land use issues, to internationalization and landscape architecture in the global South.
The aim of the Call for Forums (CFF) is to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, promote networking and create platforms for discussion on important future issues in the landscape domain. Through CFF, we want to build on the foundation laid by the previous Call for Ideas (CFI), but with a clearer focus on supporting established networks and collaborations, and stimulate broader collaboration both internally within SLU and externally in order to further consolidate SLU's position as one of Europe's leading research and education environments in the landscape area.
The call is aimed at teaching and research staff at SLU Landscape's various departments and units.
Proposals for new CFFs and applications for extension of existing ones should be submitted to the SLU Landscape Steering Committee by December 15.
Contact: Lina Berglund-Snodgrass, Movium
The idea behind the Forum for Digitising Urban Landscapes is to create an arena for inspiration and dialogue between academy and practice, where the conditions for digitalisation and its consequences for planning, design, and management of urban landscapes can be discussed.
Contact: Amanda Gabriel, IMS/Urban Futures
- The Forum for Children and Landscape connects persons working with the environments of children and youth. By mapping and showcasing research, education, and collaboration at SLU Landscape, the forum strengthens knowledge-sharing and creates new opportunities for impact. Through thematic resources, workshops, and networking, it brings together expertise to shape healthier, more inclusive spaces for young people. This 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
The PhD Forum provides a setting for addressing the complexities of PhD education and expressing the multidisciplinary richness of SLU’s landscape research. The forum aims at bridging the geographical, institutional, and epistemic distances fragmenting campuses, faculties, and departments as well as breaking the otherwise isolated work of a PhD student.
Contact: Victoria Sjöstedt, LAPF
The forum functions as a long-term capacity building initiative to strengthen reflective practice and design research at SLU, gathering teachers, students, researchers and practitioners with interest in urban landscapes and their design.