RESEARCH GROUP

Landscape Architecture - Profession and Practice

Updated: June 2025

In the subject area the profession and practice, we focus on methods and theories used by landscape architects in their professional work.

Especially important is how the role and methods of the landscape architect need to develop, in relation to new societal challenges such as densification of cities, biodiversity loss, sea level rise, flooding, etc. 

With a focus on factors such as form, scale, space and materiality, the meaning and identity of landscapes are processed within education and research. We work with landscapes regardless of scale, character, or spatial position, and take care of the interplay between cultural, social and natural systems. Profession and Practice involves historical perspectives as well as speculative design for future situations, thinking about landscapes as processes.

The group consists of »doers« within landscape architecture and we maintain a substantial part of the education of landscape architects and to some extent also landscape engineers. Research involves both landscape of different times, characters and, materialities. With practice orientated,  explorative as well as artistic methods, we defend the multiplicity of the profession 

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