Anne Katrine Geelmuyden

Professor

  • Department of Landscape Architecture

Anne Katrine Geelmuyden (born 1957), Professor of landscape architecture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. After completing her master degree in LA, she worked as a landscape designer in private consultant firms for a period of two years, then as a research assistant in a project on urban forestry management for one year before starting her PhD, which was completed in 1989 with a thesis entitled “Landscape experience and landscape: Ideology or critique of ideology?” Since 1989, her work at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has been on landscape meaning, landscape aesthetics, methods of interpretation and theories of knowledge generation in landscape design. She has taught Design with plants for 15 years; Now teaches landscape architecture theory at master’s level. Her recent research includes the following topics: The history and theory of the landscacpe concept. The landscape concept in the European Landscape Convention, the humanistic study of landscape aesthetics, landscape interpretion and landscape analysis methodology. She currently tutors two PhD-studies on new naturalistic ways of employing plants in public spaces. Both studies employ a Research in/by Design approach.