Welcome to visit the SLU Urbanscapes Exhibition in Ultuna!

This exhibition highlights today's and future challenges in sustainable urban development from an interdisciplinary and holistic landscape perspective. We live in a more urbanized world than ever, where global and complex sustainability challenges manifest not just in cities but across landscapes, and here the relationship between people, place and processes of urbanisation produce local, place-based particularities, which we call urbanscapes.

The exhibition is not just on site in Ultuna, the material is also developing online and we are continuously looking for YOUR contribution! This exhibition invites you to partake with your perspectives and knowledge, to share your networks, research and ideas for the future.

We see this exhibition as a way to start a dialogue with you, our colleagues and students. This exhibition acts as an arena/stage to ‘play’ on and engage, to showcase your work related to those different urbanscapes.

At the moment, the theme is Waterscapes in focus and we have invited the course Studio - Explorative methods meet current societal challenges (LK0428_2025) to show some of their work that takes a starting point in climate adaptation, rising sea levels and flooding problems with the Göta älvdal landscape through Gothenburg as a case. The student works constitute both proposals for local solutions and critical comments on how the flooding problem can be handled in an urban planning context in general. The course is held every year at SLU Ultuna and is led by Professor Carola Wingren with a special focus on climate adaptation and design.

Take a look and get in touch in case your interest and work concerns one of the different urbanscapes or other urban research across disciplines and sectors.