As an initiator, coordinator, and active researcher Gustavsson has followed ALNARP’s Landscape Lab through forty years of operation. In this lecture, he will share the Lab’s principle of embracing overlapping disciplinary contexts and its activities that include designing complexity ladders and emphasizing architectural and ecological aspects, with special emphasis on embodied study, from concepts to full-scaled, living prototypes. He will discuss the creative management of long-term time frames in the face of the unpredictable that brings to attention the successes and, equally important, the failures of the main lab, main references, satellite sites, and the new generation of land labs. Gustavsson will share content from the forthcoming.
Prof. Dr. Roland Gustavsson (Landscape Architect, Agr. Doctor, Professor Emeritus, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) completed in 1976 his Masters degree in Landscape Architecture and immediately took up a research and teaching position. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1987, as only the second landscape architect in Sweden with a doctorate, his ambition was to pioneer a bridge between academia and practice through a position at the university. In 1994 he was appointed Professor in Planting Design and Landscape Management at the Department of Landscape Planning at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) where he founded the school’s Landscape Laboratory, a paragon of embodied research. He is a member of the European network group Periscapes, employing the ‘landscape ambassador’ approach based on Real Life Studios stressing communicative approaches and the meeting of different landscape competences and cultures of Europe.
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