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Call for Projects: Urban Forum - Practice meets Academia 2020 (online)
Published: 10 July 2020
An invitation to reflective practitioners, practice-oriented researchers, and design critics to present and discuss collaborative experiences, case studies and practices from a variety of backgrounds, in view of developing sustainable cities and communities (built or drawn work, speculative or actual, contemporary or historical).
Call for projects
The two research platforms Urban Arena at Lund University and SLU Urban Futures at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences join forces again, this time during the SLU Landscape Days 16 - 17 September (online poster exhibition and webinar). They invite practitioners, researchers and design critics in the physical design disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, engineering) to exhibit, present and discuss their work, finished or in progress, tackling urban sustainability in manifold ways.
With the constantly growing public and political concern for environmental issues comes the risk of urban space and landscape being (conf)used as a greenwashing solution. A tardy and superficial solicitation of scholars and practitioners dealing with landscape can easily serve misleading environmental claims rather than bringing substantial environmental improvements. In this context, it is our duty to mitigate greenwashing, by developing strategies and holistic design methods leading to the caring and the creation of landscapes performing genuine environmental functions. Convinced that valuable action-oriented knowledge arises from the exchange of practice and academia, we arrange a particular format of encounter: the Urban Forum | Practice meets Academia.
Online sessions
During the sessions arranged on 16 - 17 September practitioners and researchers engage in discussions with each other to refine issues of societal importance for practice and academia. Around 12 project authors will engage with the audience (in English or Swedish) to bring light to burning questions, critical aspects, inspiring findings, in a collegial atmosphere. Project authors present their work during 10 minutes, followed by a moderated discussion of 15 minutes.
Deadline for submission of abstracts / project descriptions: 21 August 2020.