RESEARCH PROJECT
FLORENCE – Flexible Landscape Offering Resilient, Equitable, Nature-based Coastal Edges
Updated: September 2026
Project overview
Project manager:
Misagh Mottaghi
Funded by:
The project is a part of Omställningslabb Nyhamnen and funded by Formas for three years as part of the ShiftSweden program.
Participants
Project members:
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Short summary
Mareld Landscape Architecture, lead
- David Gough, landscape architect (project leader)
- Emma B. Jones, landscape architect (practice coordinator)
- Martin Allik. landscape architect (expert)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), co-applicant
- Misagh Mottaghi (academic coordinator), Department of People and Society
- Carola Wingren, Department of Urban and Rural Development
- Kes McCormick, Department of People and Society
Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI), co-applicant
- Lisa Van Well
- Per Danielsson
- Christel Carlsson
- Jim Hedfors
The City of Malmö, needs owner
- Anna Ragell
- Johan Nilsson
Reference group
The Reference Group provides expert guidance on integrating scientific, architectural and ecological approaches.
- Lone-Pia Bach, Professor in architectural restoration at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
- Kristina Hill, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.
- Katrina Wiberg, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Center for Emerging Landscapes.
- Iris Moeller, Professor of Geography and a coastal geomorphologist at Trinity College Dublin.