This Forum is a 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.
Activities
Activities during 2024:
Study visit to Konstfack Stockholm to learn from Konstfack’s approach to artistic research and studio teaching (12 April 2024).
Seminar in Linköping about artistic merit within the faculty, artistic methods in teaching and research, and publication based on material from design teaching (3-4 June 2024).
Workshop at SLU Landscape Days Alnarp about publication based on material from design teaching (9-10 October 2024).
Activities during 2023:
Workshop at SLU Landscape Days Ultuna. Discussion about Forum-initiatives and long-term goals (12 October 2023).
Study trip to the Barcelona Biennale (November 2023).
A publication on artistic methods in research directed to students and teachers (2023-2025).
About
The Forum is a transdisciplinary design research network, acting as a continuous resource, evolving vocabulary, methodology, pedagogy, communication and collaboration within SLU Landscape. The activities within the Forum seek to strengthen collaboration and knowledge exchange in the subject field of landscape design at the LAPF and SOL departments, and make design work at SLU more visible. The Forum initiates conversations with other universities for inspiration and knowledge exchange, supporting reflective practice and design research at SLU. The Forum aims to:
- Establish a social context for vivid and open discussion at the academy about reflective practice and design research, clarifying and positioning reflective practice and design research within SLU.
- Strengthen the design subject within SLU, and be a face outwards to the professional field, attracting attention from outside of SLU, communicating the unique and diverse landscape design project portfolio that we have, articulating design and design research competence at SLU.
- Support applications in the direction of sustainable development research projects involving design and art.
The Forum builds on the 2021/2022 Call for Ideas project “Site Impressions in Sustainable Landscape Design”
Main contacts
Victoria Sjöstedt, Caroline Dahl (LAPF) and Sofia Sandqvist, Malin Eriksson (SOL) act as Forum coordinators.