The world meets here - in Malmö and Nairobi! Join this special course, a collaboration to lay the foundation for the IFLA World Congress 2023 in collaboration between Kenya and Sweden.
This Masters course connects to the big global questions and facilitates student participation in the IFLA student competition exploring sites with local landscape prerequisites to address global challenges. The objective is collaborative working between Kenyan and Swedish students to contribute to two specific, preselected sites, one each in both countries.
– Join us in this “once in a lifetime” course, says Maria Kylin, Associate Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, who is part of the team orginising the course. The course is open for students interested in planning with local landscape prerequisites to address global challenges.
– The course starts 22 Mars and it is not too late to join. You can join up to two weeks after the course has started. Book your spot now and get access to schedule and particulars on the course. Check the link below for more information.
The course is conducted in collaboration with Kenyan Landscape Architects through Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi in association with the IFLA World Congress that will be held in Sweden and Kenya in September 2023. Experienced teachers and professionals from Sweden and Kenya will coach the students through the design and planning process. Proposals of each team, comprising of students from both nations, will be submitted to the IFLA Congress student competition held the same month the competition will be assessed and judged by an international panel.
Working on two sites, Nyhamnen in Malmö and Nairobi dam in Nairobi. Both sites face challenges related to water management but in distinct social, political, and climatological contexts. How do we interact with local context, understand spatial processes and handle local politics? These are a few of the challenges that will be addressed in this competition preparing the students for working cross-equatorially in their future career.
Design studio at Hyllan, SLU campus with in person critiques and studio tutoring by faculty teachers and invited practitioners. Kenyan teachers and students visiting SLU for interaction in the course in end of March. The designs at the end of the course will be submitted to the IFLA Student’s Design Competition.
Interaction with Kenyan students who also work with the same sites in a course with the same theme that started in Kenya in February. The interaction will mostly take part via zoom and forming international teams for the competition will be encouraged.
Special workshops, seminars and events being organized at campus and in Malmö in collaboration with Architects Sweden (Sveriges Arkitekter) for insights on how architectural competitions in architecture in general can be a driving force to enhance quality in design.
Guest speakers for lectures and workshops on UN Habitat and Konkuey Design Initiative (digital from Nairobi), and several guest lectures at Alnarp campus on topics such as:
Still student application possible. Book your spot now and get access to schedule and particulars on the course.
For more information, send an email to Maria.Kylin@slu.se.
Organizing course team:
Maria Kylin, Nupur Prothi, Emily Wade, Lina Berglund-Snodgrass, Mats Gyllin
Maria Kylin
Landscape architect, PhD. and Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management
Tel: +46 40-41 54 51
E-mail: Maria.Kylin@slu.se