Stillingstittel:
Ph.D. scholarship in community design and participation - Ref.no 16/00934

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

 

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

 

Further information about NMBU is available on www.nmbu.no

Jobbnorge ID: 122390

As our cities are becoming more culturally diverse, urban and landscape designers are asked to create new, or redesign old, public open spaces to welcome a rich and diverse user constituency, and to be sensitive to the different values and beliefs users carry with them as they experience the city. In 2000, the European Landscape Convention underscored the importance of understanding the landscape through the lens of those who inhabit it. Just last year, the International Federation of Landscape Architects published a resolution stating that "Landscape Democracy is a form of planning and design in which all citizens are meant to participate equally, either directly or through elected representatives in the proposal, development and establishment of the rules by which their landscape and open spaces are shaped" (IFLA 2014 p.1).  Despite these ambitious calls for increased participation, community participation efforts often do not deliver the rich and meaningful outcomes communities expect. More rigorous investigations of the theories, practices and methods is needed to promote more effective, inclusive and rich participatory design processes.

 

 

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning (ILP) is leader in the environmental planning and design fields in Norway.  With over 400 students and 40 faculty, ILP is home of the oldest Landscape Architecture program in Norway. Its alumni have been responsible for national and planning policies which have greatly affected democratic life and discourse in Scandinavia. In 2012, the institute established the Centre for Landscape Democracy, in recognition of the pivotal importance of environmental justice and democratic design in the future of our cities.  While the founding of the center is recent, it has already begun to influence academic and policy discourse in Scandinavia. The center recently convened the "Defining Landscape Democracy" conference in an effort to advance the debate on community participation and democratic design. For more information, please visit our web-page: http://www.nmbu.no/ilp.

 

 

Main tasks/ Research Project

The Ph.D. fellow's research will focus on theories and practices of sustainable urban design and the role of participation in the design or redesign of urban or suburban neighbourhoods. Subareas of investigation that complement faculty expertise will centre on one or more of the following: 1) theories and practices of community participation in public open space design in the context of densifying and diversifying neighborhoods; 2) community-based investigation of place and landscape identity and attachment in urban and suburban places; 3) community-based strategies for sustainably activating and managing chang

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige unive

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Postboks 5003 1432 ÅS

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år