Master of science (2 year) Full time
Ready to engage in the most pressing issues of our time? Combining practices from landscape architecture and studies in global development, planning and ecology, this programme offers a unique approach to global environmental and social challenges.
Requirements
Bachelor in Landscape architecture or other related studies
Number of students
25
Study start
Autumn 2021
Study advisor(s)
Contact study advisors
Contact info
Admission Office:
opptak@nmbu.no
Phone: 67 23 01 11
The programme will address some of the planet’s most urgent issues; climate change, environmental deterioration, natural hazards, regional conflicts, poverty and migration.
The master's program Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability offers unique opportunities of studying and designing contested landscapes and territories. Contested landscape and territories are the object of contention or competition; human beings struggle for it.
The programme contains a sequence of three studio courses that apply a critical question-driven approach. Constant exchange of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives within participants will be encouraged and supported.
Job opportunities
Candidates graduating from this programme will be affiliated with the profession of landscape architecture.
Their environmental problem-solving skills suit potential future jobs at a variety of scales, for example in:
- regional land-use planning
- land management
- environmental rehabilitation
- master-planning
- blue-green infrastructure
- community activism, and site-design interventions, nationally as well as internationally.
Learning outcomes
The programme has a transdisciplinary focus and spans the traditional landscape architecture curriculum from landscape management, planning and design, including landscape ecology, as well as theory and methods from development studies. The programme has a research focus and is at a master level. The programme builds up from the Bachelor’s level of landscape architecture and related studies to an advanced level of global landscape architecture.
Exchange opportunities
The programme is developed as an international master’s degree programme, where students will be attracted from different parts of the world. The courses include group work that will provide many opportunities for the exchange of intercultural experience and knowledge. Courses will cover ethical concerns as well as knowledge about working internationally and experiencing cultural differences.
NMBU has exchange agreements within many disciplines and with many universities across the world. You will find more information at NMBU's website HERE
Admission requirements
Admission requires a Bachelor degree or an equivalent background in one of the following fields: Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Development Studies, Resource Management, Environmental studies, Engineering and other relevant fields.
Applicants must meet the University’s requirement for English language proficiency and include a 1-page (A4) motivation letter.
Applications are expected to be able to express themselves visually.
Please note that students with a former master’s degree from NMBU will not be prioritized.
NMBU requires that you have your own personal laptop in connection with learning activities or forms of assessment.
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Combining practices from landscape architecture and studies in global development, this programme offers a unique approach to environmental and social challenges across the globe.