Approved Call For Forums 2025

Contact: Lina Berglund-Snodgrass, Movium

The idea behind the Forum for Digitising Urban Landscapes is to create an arena for inspiration and dialogue between academy and practice, where the conditions for digitalisation and its consequences for planning, design, and management of urban landscapes can be discussed.

Contact: Amanda Gabriel, IMS/Urban Futures

- The Forum for Children and Landscape connects persons working with the environments of children and youth. By mapping and showcasing research, education, and collaboration at SLU Landscape, the forum strengthens knowledge-sharing and creates new opportunities for impact. Through thematic resources, workshops, and networking, it brings together expertise to shape healthier, more inclusive spaces for young people. This is both about developing our own work and about making a lasting difference in children's everyday lives and the world they will inherit, says Amanda Gabriel.

Contact: Sued Ferreira da Silva, SOL-LA

The PhD Forum provides a setting for addressing the complexities of PhD education and expressing the multidisciplinary richness of SLU’s landscape research. The forum aims at bridging the geographical, institutional, and epistemic distances fragmenting campuses, faculties, and departments as well as breaking the otherwise isolated work of a PhD student.

Contact: Victoria Sjöstedt, LAPF

The forum functions as a long-term capacity building initiative to strengthen reflective practice and design research at SLU, gathering teachers, students, researchers and practitioners with interest in urban landscapes and their design.

Contact: Jitka Svensson, LAPF

The focus of this forum is on applied landscape architecture, for example discussions on the plant material of landscape architecture, hardscaping materials, plant beds, drainage, project planning, construction, education progression, materiality, etc. 

Contact: Christine Haaland, LAPF

This forum aims at strengthening the competence among scholars in the field, and thus the quality of education and research. A forum on biodiversity - being a topic in acute need of handling by society - should facilitate agency within the organisation, thereby preparing it for new initiatives.

- The forum aims to enable an exchange on teaching and research related issues within the field of biodiversity. It is also seen as a possibility for networking beyond established course teams and specific research applications. It will be exciting to meet colleagues to discuss our diverse approaches and perspectives, says Christine Haaland.