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SLU Urban Futures

SLU Urban Futures is a strategic platform that develops and strengthens transdisciplinary research, education and collaboration in sustainable urban development.

View over city with water and bridges.

Sustainable cities and communities

SLU has broad competence linked to the many facets of sustainable urban development. Blue-Green infrastructure, biodiversity, design of urban landscapes and sustainable urban food systems are just a few examples. By connecting disciplines, faculties and sectors, the platform stimulates the new research, new methods and new collaborations needed to create sustainable future urban landscapes. SLU Urban Futures uses the term research 'scape to make room for multidimensional knowledge production from a landscape perspective.

Call for applications to Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA)

The call for applications to Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) 2024-2025 is now open. IDA is a programme where SLU researchers are offered the opportunity to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries on complex issues in the broad field of sustainable transition.

Red wooden house by a pond. Photo.

SLU Future platforms at the ITD24 conference

On November 5, 2024, SLU’s Future Platforms hosted a workshop at the ITD24 conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, exploring how to foster inter- and transdisciplinary (ID/TD) collaboration.

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SOIL - Botildenborg

The Botildenborg Foundation in Malmö runs a farm and meeting place, combining urban gardening with social activities. Since the spring of 2024, SLU Urban Futures has been part of the project SOIL - a Social Innovation Living Lab, with the aim of increasing research and knowledge about the social innovations carried out at Botildenborg.

A woman and a man among cultivation beds.

UrbanScapes

UrbanScapes provides a gateway to SLU's palette of urban knowledge and networks. Created by SLU Urban Futures as a complement to the university's main SLU.se website, it facilitates access to the breadth of SLU work on urban sustainability. Click here to explore!

News

Published: 17 December 2024 - Page editor: urbanfutures@slu.se
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