SLU Urban Futures

Green Equity Index – equal access to green spaces in Malmö
The importance of green spaces in urban environments is increasingly emphasized by high political authorities, including in the nature restoration regulation that the EU recently decided on, and in
From AI to urban landscapes
From AI to urban landscapes - lunch webinar marc.stromback@slu.se AI is already influencing how we plan and develop our cities - but what does it mean for the study of urban landscapes and the

SLU leads international project on Nature-based Thinking
Major funding has allowed SLU to lead a project that will test Nature-based Thinking at different levels in Malmö, Barcelona and Turin. The three-year project will focus on biodiversity and human

Book about the forest in the city wins Sweden's Architects Critics Award
The book Woods Go Urban radically explores how forests can be integrated into the the city. By highlighting the important role of trees and vegetation in urban planning, the book provides both
IDA kick out
Beyond restoration: Interdisciplinary exploration of restoration for present and future generations futurefood@slu.se During this seminar, the thematic group from SLU’s Interdisciplinary Academy (

Urban farming opens up for conversation about the future
What do people in Rosengård think about the future and how can you grow plants indoors in a basement in a good way? Nina Vogel, program director at SLU Urban Futures, is one of the researchers

Call for applications to IDA
The Interdisciplinary Academy is a programme at SLU where You, being a researcher at SLU, is offered the opportunity to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries on complex issues in the broad field
Important dates
A new project period for IDA 2025-2026 is announced by SLU Future Food in collaboration with SLU Urban Futures. Here you will find important dates for the call and the project period. 5 Dec 2024:

School meals should be on the top of the political agenda
“If we want to have healthy people, landscape and climates, schools are the right place to start.” Moderated by SLU’s Andrew Gallagher, experts in Malmö and Europe shared a a public, digital

Apply for SLU Urban Futures seed funding
Urban Futures now invites you as a researcher to apply for seed funding, as support for writing inter- and transdisciplinary texts within the thematic framework of Urbanscapes, such as health-,

Venue: Urban landscapes – a new webinar series from SLU Urban Futures and SLU Tankesmedjan Movium
Venue: Urban landscapes is a new series of webinars hosted by the future platform SLU Urban Futures och SLU Think Tank Movium. It brings together academia and practice to share knowledge, experiences

Halfway through the PhD Project on Alnarp Campus
Just over a year ago, Dennis Andreasson, a PhD candidate at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (LAPF), shared his plans, ambitions, and hopes for his PhD project on the