Center for Emerging Landscapes

Organisation profile

Organisation profile

Climate-based strategies for urban landscapes

We need radically new ways of engaging climate, landscapes, waterscapes, and biodiversity as holistic practices in our urban landscapes and planning – if we want our descendants to inherit a healthier and more affluent planet. Motivated by climate change, the Centre for Emerging Landscapes will create new methods for developing future urban landscapes.

Based on place-specific qualities, the centre will use integrated and applied research for testing new opportunities in the green transition of our territories based on intervention and exploration. Focusing on ecologies integrative of both human beings, other species, and natural processes, the centre’s approach is to use knowledge of climate and place-specific conditions for creating synergies and identifying potentials for transforming the existing environment – in both the short and the long-term.

Purpose

The overall purpose of the centre is to contribute to a necessary paradigm shift in how we practice urban and landscape architecture by developing basic research and situated knowledge. This includes:

  • Contributing to creating and expanding a deeper knowledge of how we can contribute to adapting, adjusting, and mitigating the effects of tomorrow’s climate on urban landscapes through urban landscape planning.
  • Investigating and intervening in local areas in ways that adapt to the specific challenges posed by the future climate. This includes taking into consideration the past, the present, and the future.
  • Basing our efforts on a thorough understanding of existing conditions and promoting the active interaction of people, buildings, and ecosystems. This includes appreciating and respecting existing landscapes and urban values and qualities.
  • Developing basic research, work processes, and methods with the potential to inspire others and be used widely – nationally and internationally – by various groups of professionals, sectors, and stakeholders dealing with challenges related to urban landscapes with a focus on climate, land use, urban nature, and a ‘blue-green’ transition based on design and planning.

 

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The Projects

The projects associated with the Centre for Emerging Landscapes are based on interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and collaborations in both research and practice. Place-specific and locally rooted factors are cornerstones in developing and experimenting with new adaptive practices. This may, for instance, involve reading landscapes to identify transformative potentials over time, scenarios for changing waterscapes, interactions between places and citizens, and full-scale experiments with sensuous approaches to afforestation and biodiversity in living landscape laboratories in new climatic conditions.

Besides collaborating with other research environments at home and abroad, the centre will continuously bring in and collaborate with municipalities, practicians, and utilities to ensure knowledge is continually shared and developed. This aims to communicate and test methods ‘under pressure’ and gather and create new, shared knowledge about similar issues in other contexts.

Keywords

  • Landscape
  • landscape architecture
  • landscape urbanism

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