This Forum is a 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.
The Forum is a transdisciplinary design research network, acting as a continuous resource, evolving vocabulary, methodology, pedagogy, communication and collaboration within SLU Landscape. The activities within the Forum seek to strengthen collaboration and knowledge exchange in the subject field of landscape design at the LAPF and SOL departments, and make design work at SLU more visible. The Forum initiates conversations with other universities for inspiration and knowledge exchange, supporting reflective practice and design research at SLU. The Forum aims to:
The Forum builds on the 2021/2022 Call for Ideas project “Site Impressions in Sustainable Landscape Design”
Activities
Workshop on the SLU Landscape Days (October 2023).
Study trip to the Barcelona Biennale (November 2023).
A publication on design research based on the material collected on the Forum website (2023-2024).
Main contacts: Victoria Sjöstedt, LAPF and Vera Vicenzotti, SOL
Victoria Sjöstedt, Lecturer at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management
E-mail: victoria.sjostedt@slu.se
Phone: +46 40 415161
SLU Landscape
SLU Landscape operates as a cross-institutional network for collaboration and joint profiling of work done in the landscape subject area at SLU. It is one of the largest environments for research and teaching in landscape architecture in Europe.