Portfolio instructions 2024/2025

Same criteria for all courses.

• The submitted portfolio should include at least three (3) projects or assignments that illustrate – using both text and images – your ability to design, plan and visualise a landscape, both digitally and analogue.
• The presented projects should be relevant for landscape architecture.Examples of landscapes are gardens, parks, cemeteries, squares,streets, residential areas, cities, recreation areas, municipalities, regions and the systems they may be part of.
• The presentation of each project should be coherent and logical. It is the content and quality of the projects that are important, and the techniques used are a means of mediating this. The projects in the portfolio should be presented using text, graphics, plans, sections,and/or other visualisation techniques according to professional practice.
• The material presented in your portfolio needs to be entirely your own, or produced by you in cooperation with others, e.g. in group projects! At least two (2) projects must be individual works. If you in addition to these use a group work, you need to state what your contribution have been. Everything needs to be correctly referenced.
• The project can be represented in different scales and can include both urban and rural situations.
• The projects should address issues and questions in landscape architecture or landscape planning that can be linked to the areas and places described.
• The portfolio must be written in English.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be used to generate images or text.

• Your portfolio should clearly communicate a spatial understanding, demonstrate your ability to deal with complex and multifaceted problems relevant for landscape architecture, and your ability to visualise and communicate situations and atmospheres in landscapes and places, including people and vegetation.
• Your portfolio should clearly communicate how you work with your own process and approaches to landscape architecture through sketches, concepts, compositions, analysis, reflections, theoretical connections, and proposals etc.
• Your portfolio will also be assessed based on the quality of your work as well as your ability to communicate and represent your projects.

• Your portfolio should express abilities to explore, sketch, present and communicate through several different media from hand-drawn to digital, depending on the task at hand.
• Your portfolio should also express your ability to make a balanced and coherent layout, expressing graphical skills.
• Your portfolio will be assessed based on your ability to visualise and communicate situations and atmospheres in built landscapes, including people and vegetation.
• Your portfolio should clearly communicate a spatial understanding of the projects that are presented, as well as how you experiment with your own design process and approach to design work through concepts, compositions, and experiments to a final proposal presented in relevant scales.