The Doctoral Network “LANDLABS - Landscape Laboratories: Design strategies for sustainable and beautiful urban landscapes in the Anthropocene” (funded by the European Commission within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) operates across six landscape laboratories throughout Europe, exploring new perspectives on the interconnectedness between humans, animals, plants, water, air, soil, and technologies. Through an innovative site-based, research-through-design approach, LANDLABS offers young researchers the opportunity to contribute to the critical and urgent issue of the green transition of cities in alignment with the European Green Deal and the United Nations Goals of Sustainability.

LANDLABS invites applications for six doctoral positions 

As members of LANDLABS, the Doctoral Candidates will receive training in developing new modes of understanding urban landscapes in the Anthropocene and devising new methods to enhance their sustainability and beauty. LANDLABS unites researchers from Leibniz University Hannover, Aarhus School of Architecture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, University of Ljubljana, University of Porto, TU Wien, and associated partners from municipal planning departments.

All six Doctoral Candidates affiliated with LANDLABS will engage deeply with a specific site in collaboration with the local municipal planning department. These sites are landscapes significantly impacted by human activities and will function as landscape laboratories for exploring new perspectives on interconnectedness and testing design strategies for sustainable and beautiful urban landscapes in the Anthropocene. The PhD fellows are expected to develop and implement design interventions in these landscape laboratories as part of their research.

The doctoral training in LANDLABS is organized into two main phases. In the initial two-year period, each doctoral candidate primarily focuses on their individual landscape laboratory site and related theory.. In the third year, the six PhD fellows collaborate in a virtual PhD lab on joint tasks to develop transferable theory, evaluation criteria, and design strategies for sustainable and beautiful urban landscapes in the Anthropocene. The Doctoral Candidates are required to participate in all joint activities and contribute three papers as part of their dissertation: two individual and one joint.

PhD job advertisements 

Tromsø 

The Arctic University of Norway

Academy of Arts

Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana
Department of Landscape Architecture

Hannover

Leibniz University Hannover

Department of Open Space Planning and Design

Aarhus

Aarhus School of Architecture
Research Laboratory 1: Transformation

Vienna

TU Wien

Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture

Porto

University of Porto
Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning


Due to an unexpected bureaucratic delay, the job advertisement of Porto is not available yet. For this reason, the application deadline for the position in Porto will be postponed. Further information will soon be available here.