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 2022
Study advisor(s)
Contact study advisors
Contact info
Admission Office:
opptak@nmbu.no
Phone: 67 23 01 11
Shaping livable spaces is the goal of landscape architecture. It is concerned with planning, designing and managing functional, attractive, and future-proof spaces that respond to human as well as ecological needs. In this study programme we will address some of the planet’s most urgent issues; climate change, environmental deterioration, natural hazards, regional conflicts, poverty and migration.
The programme 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
Career possibilities: "Water, wind and solar powered" - Interview with former students
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.
We're proud to be able to present students and their work on these webpages: https://www.nmbu.no/forside/studentutstillinger
- Contested Landscapes II - Student Exhibition Spring 2022: https://www.nmbu.no/forside/studentutstillinger/2022-contestedlandscapes
- A common-or-garden City - Student Exhibition Fall of 2021: https://www.nmbu.no/forside/studentutstillinger/2021-contested-landscapes
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’s degree or an equivalent background in one of the following fields: Landscape Architecture, Landscape engineering, Architecture, Landscape planning, Urban Design, and Urban and Regional Planning.
Applicants must meet the University’s requirement for English language proficiency and include a 1-page (A4) motivation letter.
Applicants are expected to be able to express themselves visually. All applicants must send a motivation letter of a maximum of 600 words where the questions listed below must be answered. Admission will be partly based on the applicants' transcripts from previous educations and the motivation letter to ensure that well-qualified and motivated applicants are admitted. Those applicants who have no formal education within visualization are recommended to address their experience with visualization in their motivation letter.
- In what way do you think studies in landscape architecture will supplement your current academic qualifications and what career path do you imagine that the education at NMBU will give you?
- In what way do you think your personal background and your current professional qualifications may expand the academic perspective and enrich the learning environment of the NMBU Master programme?
- On one extra A4 page, present graphically one of your professional or academic projects/assignments that relate to the Master you want to enroll in.
The study program Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability comprises field trips (not mandatory). Students must be prepared to cover their own travel expenses. Please contact the study advisor of the program for more information.
NMBU requires that you have your own personal laptop in connection with learning activities or forms of assessment.
You can find general information on admission to NMBU here.
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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.