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Where are the Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture?

Published: 24 September 2020

What roles did and do women play in the production and practice of open urban space? What ideas about gender underpin the planning and design of those spaces, their discourses, meaning-making and usage?

Having obtained funding for two years by the Office of Independent Research Fund Denmark in the programme ‘Forskernetværk | Kultur og Kommunikation’ this research network will gather artists and scholars from a broad range of disciplines to engage in a series of exploratory workshops, where they will be searching for women who have contributed to landscape architecture in Scandinavia. The initiative is embedded in the overarching research project on women in Danish architecture, to be launched on 12 November. The PhD course ‘Architecture and Gender’ introduces the topic this autumn (some free seats left, please contact Svava Riesto or Henriette Steiner).


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SLU Landscape
SLU Landscape operates as a cross-institutional network for collaboration and joint profiling of work done in the landscape subject area at SLU. It is one of the largest environments for research and teaching in landscape architecture in Europe. 

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