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Linnaeus Palme grant for collaboration with UBA Buenos Aires

Published: 29 May 2017

SLU professor Lisa Diedrich and professor Flavio Janches of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) have been awarded a Linneaus Palme Partnership grant for student and staff exchange in 2017-2018, extendable for up to 6 years, to advance critical knowledge in the field of urban design practice and theory for fragile water landscapes.

Per year the grant allows two students and two teachers of each university to integrate the other institution for a study or teaching period of 3 weeks (teachers)/ 3 months (students). The aim of this exchange project is

  • to allow both students and staff to learn from each other across the disciplines of landscape architecture (SLU Landscape) and urbanism (UBA Urban Design) and develop their agency to tackle global challenges in cross-disciplinary ways through teaching and researching about the design of climate change affected water landscapes, evolutionary open urban spaces and urban commoning.
  • to educate students towards critical thinking about global processes and their local implications, towards thinking together the effects of natural processes and people’s practices in urbanising water landscapes, and increase their interest in preparing a career in development projects.
  • UBA Urban Design has experience with the upgrading of marginalised settlements in fragile urban water landscapes (in the Rio de la Plata urban delta), SLU Landscape with the urban transformation of old industrial areas in coastal cities (in Malmö and other European harbour cities) – together, a broader spectrum of action-oriented critical knowledge on the global processes of urbanisation affecting urban water landscapes will arise and nurture teaching and research at the home universities.


Contact

Lisa Diedrich, Professor

The Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, SLU

lisa.diedrich@slu.se, +46 40-41 54 24