Employees in the landscape area met for an exchange of experience and inspiration in Alnarp on October 9-10. This year, the two days began with the alumnus of the year award.
It was the first time that this year's alumnus comes from the landscape architecture program. Johan Folkesson is chief architect at the Swedish Transport Administration and was awarded by Christina Lunner Kolstrup, dean at LTV, for SLU Alumn of the Year 2024 when SLU Landscape Days began.
- It feels honorable for me and important that landscape architecture is highlighted, we have many solutions in society. We can visualize an alternative future that we can talk about. It is important to be able to show qualitative visions in a society that relies heavily on numbers, said Johan Folkesson.
He then participated in a panel discussion entitled “How can the profession develop to meet future challenges, and how can the landscape perspective in planning and design be strengthened?”. Different generations, from students to senior landscape architects, talked about the profession taking on more roles.
Keynote speaker Maggie Roe, Professor at Newcastle University, then spoke on 'Landscape approaches for transformative change'. She argued that we live in a critical time for successful change and that new ways of approaching landscapes require stories.
Several workshops were next on the agenda, including “Sloyd and talk - ‘crafting’ a discussion on landscape” where participants tried their hand at sloyd and talk.
Johan Folkesson, chefsarkitekt på Trafikverket och Årets SLU-alumn 2024 mottog sitt pris.
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Maggie Roe, professor vid Newcastle University, var huvudtalare med föredraget ”Landscape approaches for transformative change”.
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På workshopen My Röbäcksdalen: our landscape! Shaping next steps for research & practice diskuterades en landskapstävling om området i Umeå.
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Thomas Randrup presenterade på workshopen Introducing the nature-based solutions network at SLU.
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Märit Jansson och Mats Gyllin på workshopen Urban ekologi och biologisk mångfald i landskapsarkitektutbildning.
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Arne Nordius ledde en guidad tur om lärmiljöer utomhus.
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Harald Klein från SLU Tankesmedjan Movium presenterade.
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Malin Eriksson, SOL, Helena Mellqvist och Jitka Svensson, LAPF, redovisade sina resultat från workshopen Sloyd and talk - crafting a discussion on landscape.
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More information about key note speaker Maggie Roe, Professor at Newcastle University
If you would like to see Maggie Roe's presentation, email marc.malmqvist@slu.se and we will send it to you.
News article: SLU Alumnus of the year 2024 award ceremony and panel discussion
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