What makes a high-quality green space? How can quality in green spaces be translated into local management processes? These are questions addressed in Claudia Fongar’s new doctoral research.
Lawns and parks on land – concrete and desert underwater. Elin T. Sørensen is doing a PhD on landscapes created by people under the surface of the sea. She is Norway’s first waterscape architect.
How is it that little Norway was the first country in Europe to offer a academic study programme in landscape architecture, decades before culturally advanced nations such as Germany, England and France?
Children living in neighbourhoods with green areas within 800 metres of their home are more active, both socially and physically, according to new research.
In their new book, Marius Fiskevold and Anne Katrine Geelmuyden want to demonstrate that viewing an area as a landscape is a way of orienting oneself in the world.
It is one hundred years since the landscape architect programme began at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) making Norway the first country in Europe to educate landscape architects and this centennial will be celebrated with the OUTDOOR MATTERS exhibition at the National Museum – Architecture, Oslo.
In 2014, the School of Landscape Architecture (ILA) ) opened the Archive of Norwegian Landscape Architecture. The education in landscape architecture at NMBU is the second oldest in the world, which makes the Archive unique.
Virtual Reality can help facilitate more informed discussions between stakeholders in urban planning projects and lead to more transparency – resulting in better and fairer processes, says researcher.
