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Faculty of Landscape and Society

Faculty of Landscape and Society

AI-generated illustration for FORWARD workshop

Digital heritage & Urban Resilience: VR-Lab leads FORWARD project workshop

How can digital technologies help document historic places and communicate their stories? This question guided a three-day FORWARD workshop held on 6–8 October 2026, bringing together digital document…

Installation: Unfinished stores. Outside the Red Cross head quarter in Geneva 2023. Studio course Alice, EPFL Lausanne. Photo: Marius Grønning

Annual Conference on International Trends

SITRAP's annual conference will be held on October 23 2026 at NMBU, Ås. The conference will highlight international trends in higher education in spatial professions.

Grace Tione during fieldwork in Malawi.

29 September 2026: Grace Tione (LANDSAM)

Grace Tione (Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society) will defend her PhD thesis: Social seeds - Understanding behavior, institutions, and organizations in farmers’ seed systems in Malawi.

JGroundnuts for sale at a market in Malawi. Groundnuts, maize and soybeans were among the crops examined in the study of community seed banks in the country.

Trust shapes farmers' access to seed in Malawi

Farmers get seed from their own harvests, local markets, community seed banks and commercial suppliers. But this is not reflected in national policy.

Vegetables for sale at a market in Malawi. Vegetable production can improve food security by providing farming households with income to buy food and meet other needs.

Vegetable farming strengthens food security, but inequality shapes the gains

For many farming households in Malawi, vegetables are a source of income first and food second. But the benefits are far from equal, reflecting major differences in resources and opportunities.

Wisdom Madede Nzima

25 September 2026: Wisdom Madede Nzima (LANDSAM)

Wisdom Madede Nzima (Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society) will defend his PhD thesis: The smallholder vegetable farming system in Malawi - A whole farm perspective on food security and rural li…

Maximilian Schob at his PhD defence at NMBU, 26 August 2026.

Maximilian Schob successfully defends PhD thesis on remote sensing in landscape architecture

On 26 August 2026, Maximilian Schob successfully defended his doctoral thesis, The Model View – Models for Remote Sensing in Landscape Architecture, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)…

Five years after the Taliban's return to power, Afghanistan faces an uncertain future shaped by isolation, aid dependence, and the exclusion of women and girls from public life.

Afghanistan's new equilibrium: Five years of Taliban rule

Five years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan is no longer at war, but it is far from at peace.

Finlay Bain Kerr at Energy Ethics 2026, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Looking Beyond the Past: Finlay Bain Kerr’s Research on Mine Water Energy and the Political Economy of Just Transition

For Empowered Futures alumnus, Finlay Bain Kerr, the energy transition is not simply about replacing one technology with another. It is about people, places, and the futures communities want to create…

A forest seen through airborne laser scanning. Schob's research explores how sensor technologies shape the way landscapes become visible and understood.

Who decides what becomes visible in a landscape?

Satellite images, laser scans and digital maps increasingly shape how we understand forests, cities and coastlines. Yet we still lack understanding of how the data behind them are produced.