The Studio, level 1 of the Teaching Building, Uppsala
Can landscape function as an arena for the dialogue and development required to solve complex environmental and societal problems? If so, how? Professor Mattias Qviström ponders the question in a popular science lunch lecture. The library will provide a light lunch.
The new and complex environmental and societal problems that the world faces are of a global nature, but they also have effects and require change locally. Since the problems are interconnected, the solutions need to be developed across administrative and disciplinary demarcations.
In this context, landscape has been highlighted as a potential arena for dialogue and development. But what do landscape have to offer, and what challenges do such an approach pose? This lecture considers the possibilities from many different angles, drawing on historical studies, international research and dialogues with experienced practitioners. The lecture is based on the Formas funded project "Landscape planning and the 'undisciplined' environmental problems".
Mattias Qviström is a Professor of landscape architecture at the Department of Urban and Rural Development.
If you are unable to attend in the studio, you can watch live on SLU Play and on the SLU University Library’s Facebook page. The lecture will also be available to watch afterwards on SLU Play, but it will take a couple of weeks before it is published there.
Worth knowing is the SLU University Library’s popular science lunchtime lecture series. Here, exciting and recent research results from SLU are presented. We offer a light lunch, and after the lecture, listeners have the opportunity to ask questions.
Language: Swedish