Events
Past events
Joint Introduction Seminar in Hannover
From the 7th to 9th May 2025, the Landlabs team had a 3-day workshop at the Leibniz University Hannover.
The introduction seminar had the aim to get together the whole LANDLABS research team. With interactive workshops, short presentations of the laboratory sites, theoretical background and organisation, all LANDLABS members had a holistic start in the research project.
Short Scientific Course 1
On the 26th and 27th June 2025, the first Short Scientific Course, a 2-day hybrid-seminar organised by the University of Ljubljana, offered theoretical knowledge and secures a common level of knowledge based on different design theories, e.g. Systems Design/Living Systems, Framework Design, Urban Acupuncture and Co-Creation methods. In addition, short lectures on methods of site analysis have been offered in relation to the specific field of knowledge.
Reflection Seminar in Porto
From 5th to 7th November 2025, the entire Landlabs research team met in Porto to discuss the current work of each doctoral candidate with invited experts from six theoretical disciplines. The team also visited the landscape laboratory in Porto and attended the midterm meeting with the EU officer to reflect on the project.
Short Scientific Course 2
From 19 to 20 February 2026, the second Short Scientific Course — a two-day hybrid seminar organised by the Aarhus School of Architecture — introduced the doctoral candidates to the central concept of landscape laboratories in relation to design research. Through lectures by international professors of landscape architecture, various approaches to research through design were presented. The doctoral candidates‘ current work was discussed, as were criteria on sustainability and beauty.
Tour d’Europe
The “Tour d’Europe” was the largest event during the LANDLABS research project from thw 5th-14th June 2026, where the 4 remaining landscape laboratory sites (Tromso, Aarhus, Vienna and Ljubljana) have been visited and investigated. Each site and the Doctoral Candidates’ work have been discussed and reflected by the entire group, enabling a shift from an inside perspective to an outside perspective, and finding the researcher`s blind spots.
Upcoming events
Short Scientific Course 3:
Design research
Reflection Seminar 3 in Vienna:
Transferability & Conference preparation
